the 4th DIMENSION

Illu-Vision.
-NIMISH INAMDAR
(BE-IT)

Swoosh!!!! Comes a sword at you almost piercing your chest Your heart almost leaps out, you freak out and in those shrieks you realize your are safe and alive. Slowly relaxing you loosen your grip on the seat and in that surrounding commotion you realize that others in the theatre had a similar “Out of the world” feeling. Here you are watching a 3-Dimensional or a 3D movie. Shrek, Chota Chetan and many others have come ahead with the 3rd dimension in the cinema fraternity. In such movies you will usually find Shrek punching his fist hard at you, jumping from the screen to your seat and performing other acrobats that you will give you the 3rd dimension of Shrek. But have you ever imagined the 4th dimension of Shrek?? Imagine Shrek coming out of the theatre screen and moving in and around the theatre. Imagine you are on the seats rotating in 360 deg and the whole plot of “The Shrek” is playing around you as if it is an illusion. Introducing the 4th dimension or this is what I would nick name it as the “Illu-Vision” or I.V. I.V. should be the future version of our current T.V.

How would this work?? Lets move ahead in time by say 50 years!! Your kids as typical Indians should be die hard fan of our very own cricket. The stage is set and everyone in your kid’s friend circle has gathered at your place to watch the India-Australia match being played at Wankhede stadium (Let’s hope it exist till then). Your kid will click on the remote cum phone cum Music Player cum whatever are the requirements in those days. Beams slide down from four corners of the room and you see “VIDEOCON-The Indian Multinational” as the string of letters revolving at the center of room. Then comes the sports channel and you get the see a panoramic view of the stadium from the pavilion side. The dolby effect will make you believe that you are actually inside the stadium amongst the shouts and crowd. But as usual “North Stand rocks”, thinking so your kid zooms across the stadium passing across the pitch and reaches the “North Stand” side of the stadium. An Australian pacer runs with full pace and with all his strength hits the ball on the Batsman’s pads. Bing!! A bell is heard and the batsman is declared out. The RFID sensors in the batsman’s pad detected the stumps behind and compared it with the position of batsman. In disbelief you wish o get a closer look in the replay and your kid zooms the I.V. to the batsman’s leg, an illusion of a ball in full pace comes from behind and passes your body and hits the pads. With a view as close as 2 feet away from the batsman, there is no ambiguity that he is out and you again zoom out to get back to the “North stand”

Here in the scene above the match is taking place around you. You get to sit on the lawn, sit on the pitch, stand on stumps, run across the stadium, mute people’s sound, increase the volume, have various presets of the shouting stadium, stand besides the batsman and do all the weird stuff that you always wanted to do in real world. The only difference would be, this wont be real but its an illusion of reality. Welcome to the Illu-world, welcome to the 4th Dimension.