Sunday, February 15, 2004
Posted by Roberto
8:58 PM
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SSTM: SHANGHAI SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM
The Shanghai Science and Technology Museum is a work of art. Set over an area of 68,000 square meters and an architectural area of 98,000 square meters, this futuristic building is home to the first IMAX theatre (IMAX 3D theatre + a Dome theatre) built in China.
The 3 experiences I enjoyed the most at the SSTM are:
The Holographic Sound Room
Superb spatial sound experiences. Very involving. The 3D sound effects were played back over good quality headphones. This is to ensure the left ear gets only the left ear signal, and the right ear gets only the right ear signal.
The 3D Skewed Room
The older you are the more difficult it gets to figure out how to walk in this room. I belong to the category of old bears (see picture) who needed to enter the room 3 times before I was able to re-learn walking. Because our brains are affected by early experience, we believe that the square setup of the room is vertical to the ground, when in fact the room is oblique. So being 'upright', in this case, is not being vertical to the ground. You will not be able to walk without falling over if you keep using the squares in the room as a visual point of reference. The beauty is in seeing how young kids (below 7 years of age) figure this out effortlessly.
The 4-D Theatre
I enjoyed the IWERKS Theatre, also called 4-D Theatre, immensely. This is the result of a Disney concept in filmmaking: moving seats, water-spray, smoke-blowing mechanisms all work together with 3D images to take the movie experience to an entirely new emotional level. 3D actors spitting water at you (while the water sprays get to task) creates an an immersive and unforgettable experience!
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