Gallery: 4-D Cinema Explores Shake, Rattle and Sniff Options
014dplex
*CJ CGV, which operates 4DPlex theaters in South Korea, is slated to open a 4-D laboratory in Los Angeles by late summer to showcase motion, scent and breeze capabilities to Hollywood studios.*
02d-box-technologies
*D-Box Technologies will present* Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 *with motion parameters that include "intelligent vibration."*
03aroma-scope
*Aroma-Scope will bring scratch-and-sniff bacon odors this summer to* Spy Kids: All the Time in the World, *Robert Rodriguez's 4-D entry in the franchise.*
04odor-release-system
*This rubber odor-releasing system prototype, roughly 1 cm wide, houses an elastomer with a tiny hole in it through which scents can be released. In its final form, the matrix system cooked up by researcher Sungho Jin in partnership with Samsung would utilize smaller versions of these modules, timed to generate odor in sync with television, mobile phone or movie screen imagery.*
05king-kong-360-3-d
*Universal Studios Hollywood's King Kong 360 3-D ride, which opened in 2010, projects 3-D images of prehistoric creatures on the walls of a darkened soundstage as visitors watch from moving trams.*
06sensurround
*In 1978,* Battlestar Galactica *played in Sensurround in more than 800 theaters equipped with subwoofers so powerful they shook plaster from the walls. The system simulated a massive temblor in* Earthquake *four years earlier.*
07illusion-o
*Illusion-O, employed for William Castle's* 13 Ghosts *in 1960, gave moviegoers "ghost viewers" -- colored celluloid glasses that supposedly enabled them to see phantasmic "ectoplasm" on screen.*
08hypno-vista
*Producers of 1959's* Horrors of the Black Museum *claimed Hypno-Vista's swirling vortex technology would mesmerize audience members. During the film's prologue, embedded below, a somber "psychologist" promises "the most fantastic advance ever to be made in the history of motion picture entertainment."* http://www.youtube.com/embed/YlIDVUD-K0w
09percepto
*Movie impresario [William Castle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Castle) rigged the undersides of theater seats with military surplus wing de-icers to screen 1959's* The Tingler. *The so-called Percepto technology caused chairs to vibrate whenever the Tingler attacked audience members on screen.*
