This Is What Makes 3D Movies A Geat Experience
3D is a major step up in movie realism. Movies filmed with 3D cameras – that is, two cameras filming simultaneously at just the right distance apart – can imitate the real world more than ever before. Characters are no longer flat, explosions can send fire and debris into the audience and the sky stretches out forever behind the film, making going to the movies more like going to a live action special effects show. What 3d has done to live action movies is similar to what 3D animation did to cartoons.
3D is not limited to picture. 3D audio systems are being developed to surround you with multi-channel audio, making the sound seem to come from beside you, behind you, above you, below you and all around you, far more than the typical 5.1 audio systems will allow.
3D is catching on fast and rapidly improving at a rate that matches that of the advent of color in the early forties. While now it is seen as a special bonus in a film, we may one day come to expect it. It is entirely possible that one day the 3D format may be as common for a movie to be shot in as the color format.