Avatar available to watch in 4D, but only in Korea
By Vlad Savov 
posted February 11th 2010 10:53AM
posted February 11th 2010 10:53AM
Yo Carl Sagan, we found the fourth dimension! It was hiding in a South Korean movie theater all this time, and you can go try it out for the eminently affordable $15.80 a pop. CJ-CGV, an enterprising Korean cinema operator, has been offering its 4D experience for a year now, but Avatar's sellout success has led it to open three more "4D plexes." The way the company finally cornered that elusive fourth dimension is by engaging all five senses: moving seats, wind, water sprinkling, lasers, and synthetic smells are all used in time with the movie. Sure, it's a gimmick and takes a loose interpretation of what the word dimension means, but at least it's unlikely you'll fall asleep during the movie, as some of us may or may not have done while watching the 3D screening.
it was bad in 3D. why watch in 4D
@Xtole lol because Cameron told us to!
@Xtole
So you can feel air being blown in your face while surfing the floating mountains and get doused water.Those Koreans got it all, ehhh?
I would LOVE to go see ANYTHING in this theater... whats with all you lame-o's?
@HotDog We mere Americans have had this for some time now at places like Universal Studios and Disneyland.
@Eugene Action I assume that they would sprinkle blood during horror movies...
@FZeroWing and release poison gas
4x the headache too!
4D in space and time? Wtf....
@Techie
after the movie, u will be 1000 years later in future & u will meet a robot name bender...
@Techie
All movies are 4D. As you watch them you are transported 2 hours into the future at normal speed.
@Techie
You pay the money, watch the movie and then they return the time it takes to watch the movie back to you. This will revolutionize the film industry.
There is one of these special effects cinemas just 500m from where i live. and it's called 6D
So that's 2 dimensions better :)
@(Unverified) I suppose you guys have mp5 players by now, don't you?
@(Unverified) Yup here in Slovenia there's a cinema called Xpan6D that's been doing all that for years...
@SlimSpaceman
Well good because i'm from Slovenia too :P
We have the most dimensions :)
You can now has sex with the blue people?
@geekthree I'm just asking what everyone was thinking....
@geekthree
yes, now your seat will vibrate and you may possibly get wet with continual squirt of water. It happened to me at seaworld.
@geekthree
Where do you plug in your hair?
@geekthree
They're 10 feet tall.
Trust me, you're gonna be outclassed in the bedroom.
@Davo
we're all the same height lying down.
BWAHAHAHAHA
And I have a buzzcut... :(
@loocas
No worries, us enterprising thinkers could always hack a plug...
I think USB 3.0 has the proper bandwidth to attempt what we want to do, so we could try...
@geekthree
you made my day roflmao
You know, there's a small British based company that's been trying to do this very thing... ;)
@Hobsie
Really, who?
@calrouge
Not sure, can't remember their name ;)
will I turn blue for I can really have a real movie experience? If not.. No thnx..
any movie with characters got tasered in 4D in korea?
The fourth dimension is time, I already watch movies in it.
@Nitesh actually you can't comprehend the 4th dimension, and it isn't time. time being the 4th is a popular misconception.
@cashclientel Well it certainly isn't moving chairs and mist, either.
@cashclientel
Depends on wether you ask a physicist or mathematician.
I've been making 4D movies in my line of work, so if I can't comprehend them, what the hell am I doing =P?
@cashclientel
What's your source on that? And what's your science background?
@Salmoncannon His icon is a robotic arm. What other source does he need? Obey, or the robotic arm is going after your nipples. Its that simple.
@Nitesh The 5th Element is love (spoiler alert).
@Nitesh From Wikipedia "The fourth dimension in this space was sometimes interpreted as time, but this is no longer done in modern physics."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_dimension
reminds me of smell-o-vision
@rydewnd2 Did everything suddenly just taste purple? Or maybe it was blue?
Sprinkler systems, smells, lasers? Sounds like the fourth dimension is even MORE of a cheap gimmick than the third.
@Oliver Taylor
I agree, you can check this out and tell me if your completely right!
http://www.petitionspot.com/discussion/view/f/52245
Damn, that brings back some bad memories the last time I accidentally slipped into the 4th dimension. Don't want to go down that road again.
4D would be the time element. Just give everyone a slider.
i thought the fourth dimension was time
Sony promised me the PS3 would do this 4 years ago
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/696/696060p1.html
It's a tad disappointing.. we are finally getting 3D this year but no 4D in sight.
@Eternity JUst wait for 6 more Playstations, and they will have exactly what you are looking for.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdh4TqWFfX4
@Eternity Do you really expect your ps3 to come with a moving seat and refillable smell and mist packages?(no doubt Sony would charge extra for special water)...
Only if Cameron promises to re-release Titanic in 4D
@klew They could flood the theater with freeezing water and then have it break in two. It would be just like being there.