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IMAX digital is a full-FOV 4:3 4K display with 44 speakers. The Sphere interior is a wrap-around 16K display with 168,000 interference-coordinated speakers. I
by corysama 3y ago
IMAX digital is a full-FOV 4:3 4K display with 44 speakers.
The Sphere interior is a wrap-around 16K display with 168,000 interference-coordinated speakers.
It’s like IMAX squared :P
- whoopdedo 3y agoIMAX is already (approximately) squared. The sphere multiplies it 4 times pi. I suppose if you add in the 3D effects you can say it's IMAX times 4pir/3
- ben7799 3y agoObviously it is digital and Omnimax (not IMAX) is analog but how does the Sphere compare to Omnimax? Is it an even bigger field of view? The most recent time I went to an Omnimax was to see Oppenheimer, but it actually wasn't that great since Oppenheimer was filmed in IMAX versus Omnimax.. the end result was a gigantic wrap around movie that had spherical distortion and made your neck hurt from turning it to see everything.
- bombcar 3y agoI assume it's a "really good" Omnimax, and like Omnimax you need content specifically created to take advantage of the dome aspect ratio.
- rjmunro 3y agoSo the IMAX company renamed "Omnimax" to "IMAX dome" in about the year 2000, but some of the theatres kept the old name. Watching an analog flat screen IMAX movie on a dome seems like a horrible mess, but if you digitized it, pre-corrected the distortion and re-printed it to use not-all of the dome screen I guess it could work. Maybe you could achieve similar in the analogue domain with a special arrangement of lenses. I expect you could take an IMAX dome film, digitize it and translate it to the Sphere quite easily.
- lostlogin 3y agoI looked it up as 16k doesn’t sound that much when my 43 inch is 4K. However the sphere seems to impress universally, so it’s clearly not just the pixel count.