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One lucky theatre in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, was the world’s first cinema to have Tremor FX seats installed — the derriere-shaking chairs that give moviegoers “a more immersive theatre experience.”
The chairs vibrate in three places, and respond to the audiotrack of the movie — meaning movies don’t have to be edited specifically for the chairs. Better still, the Tremor FX chairs are about the same size as regular cinema seats, so picturehouses can relax knowing they can still fit the same amount of (now shaking) bums on seats.
Can you imagine a cinema with these and the Atmos system installed? I can, but let’s hope it comes with an ‘off switch’, or I could see a lot of spilled drink in my future. [Cnet via Tremor FX]
Our local Cineworld has D-Box seats that do this, they shake and tip and vibrate, i thought i would like it, but when it first started i thought there was some oik kicking the back of my chair, then i realised it was what was supposed to happen, i turned it off after about 30 mins, what a waste of money.
I went to a D-Box showing of Prometheus. Turned it up to full and was slightly disappointed by the lack of power. It did make the flying sections slightly more fun though.
So has my local iMax. It cost about £2 extra and does add an extra element.
Useful for the Airplane movies and little else.
Pretty sure I experienced this at Thorpe Park about 15 years ago! With added water spray for extra special “realism”
I remember going to cinema and watching Earthquake (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071455/) and it having Sensurround (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensurround) and this was in the mid seventies!!!