Experiments in Interactive Panoramic Cinema
Fisher, Scott S, Steve Anderson, Susana Ruiz, Michael Naimark, Perry Hoberman, Richard Weinberg , "Experiments in Interactive Panoramic Cinema", Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems IX, Woods, A., Bolas, M.T., and Merritt, J. O., Editors, Proc. SPIE 5664 (2005)
ABSTRACT:
For most of the past 100 years, cinema has been the premier medium for defining and expressing relations to the visible world. However, cinematic spectacles delivered in darkened theaters are predicated on a denial of both the body and the physical surroundings of the spectators who are watching it. To overcome this, filmmakers have historically turned to narrative, seducing audiences with compelling stories and providing realistic characters with whom to identify. This paper describes several research projects in interactive panoramic cinema at the University of Southern California that attempt to sidestep the narrative preoccupations of cinema and instead are based on notions of space, movement and embodied spectatorship. Example projects include interactive works developed with the use of a unique 360 degree camera and editing system, and also development of panoramic imagery for a large projection environment with 14 screens on 3 adjacent walls in a 5-4-5 configuration.
