{"id":577,"date":"2009-05-08T12:22:02","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T19:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=577"},"modified":"2009-05-08T12:22:02","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T19:22:02","slug":"visions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/05\/08\/visions\/","title":{"rendered":"visions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we <a href=\"http:\/\/sffmedia.com\/films\/science-fiction-films\/352-camerons-avatar-a-3d-drug-trip.html\">go<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A technology writer for Time Magazine, after being shown 15 minutes of [the upcoming <em>Avatar<\/em> by James Cameron],  posited the movie\u2019s 3D action had set off actual \u201cmemory creation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t tell what was real and what was animated\u2013even knowing that the 9-ft.-tall blue, dappled dude couldn&#8217;t possibly be real. The scenes were so startling and absorbing that the following morning, I had the peculiar sensation of wanting to return there, as if Pandora were real,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times interviewed him later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was like doing some kind of drug,\u201d he said, describing a scene showing Sam Worthington running around \u201cwith this kind of hot alien chick,\u201d and being attacked by jaguarlike creatures. He was sprinkled with sprites that floated down, like snowflakes. &#8220;You feel like the little feathery things are landing on your arm\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In the same New York Times article, Dr. Mario Mendez, a behavioural neurologist at the University of California, said it is entirely possible Cameron\u2019s 3D technology could tap brain systems that are undisturbed by conventional 2D movies. An inner global-positioning system that orients a person to the surrounding world, was one example he gave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree-D demonstrably creates a space that triggers this GPS; it\u2019s really very stimulating\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Cameron himself told Time Magazine that 3D viewing \u201cis so close to a real experience that it actually triggers memory creation in a way that 2D viewing doesn\u2019t.\u201d Cameron also believes that stereoscopic (3D) viewing uses more neurons, which would further heighten the impact of 3D.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go: A technology writer for Time Magazine, after being shown 15 minutes of [the upcoming Avatar by James Cameron], posited the movie\u2019s 3D action had set off actual \u201cmemory creation.\u201d &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t tell what was real and what was animated\u2013even knowing that the 9-ft.-tall blue, dappled dude couldn&#8217;t possibly be real. The scenes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}