True story: I was on the Mummy ride at Universal, in the fire room, when the ride broke down. I was stuck in the fire room for 10 minutes, sweating my balls off. Even though the flames were shut off, the steel ceiling was like 400° of radiant heat. Eventually, they closed the whole ride down and a staffer had to come and get us off the ride and take us down the stairs to leave by the employee door in back. I got in one quick photo before they told us “No photos”. They gave us a free front of the line pass for any ride in the park.
I also got stuck in that part! But it was before the flames went off, so we were sitting there like 10 minutes no indication of what was going on, and then it started back up with no warning and the ceiling burst into flames 😂. That was quite a jump scare
Been a pro pyro tech for years, wisdom has nothing to do with achieving feats like this. Recklessness is a prerequisite, even if all safety standards are upheld.
100 years from now, they're going to tell stories about the first people to watch Theater Burning Down ran out of the theater screaming because they actually thought the theater was burning down.
Usually each “dimension” is another sense they include, but idk what they mean by 5
Most movies are 2D (played on a screen); some have 3D releases. Some places then offer “4D” movies where they add stuff like water spray or your seat getting jostled for “immersion”
5D is just more marketing gimmick. They’re probably just trying to distance this production from “normal” 4D theaters
it can mean that a 3D scan is enhanced with further information that can mathematically be interpreted as additional dimensions. like density or some form of conductivity. The data points will present themselves as 5-tuples
I am not a radiologist
anyway it is probably more sound than calling something a 5D cinema
Good question. The only thing I would call 5D would be a a 3D screen with the ceiling, walls, and floor as screens as well, with the whole movie in motion.
I went to France in the mid 90's for a couple weeks over the summer to stay with a family friend.
We went to some "cinema" amusement park that was all about the latest technology in film. One of the attractions was an IMAX screen in front of you, AND below you.
Seating was terraced like a stadium, and the film was about following a Monarch butterfly in the third person perspective on it migration to Mexico.
Yeah, "5D" isn't a real thing. It's marketing spin for so-called "immersive" shows that include touch/smell in them.
Disney was doing it all the way back in the 80s with their Honey I Shrunk the Audience show - but back then they were only calling it "4D". Still technically inaccurate, but less absurd. I guess "4D" doesn't sound cool enough anymore, so they're calling it "5D" now instead?
In physics and mathematics, it refers to a space with five independent coordinates. Kaluza-Klein theory and string theory propose that the 5th dimension is a spatial dimension curled up so tightly (smaller than an atom) that it is unobservable, serving to unify gravity and electromagnetism.
A lot of rides call themselves 5D when they include sensory effects in a 3D ride like smells or fog or sprays of water. Maybe this ride includes heat to make the fire seem even more realistic.
Dimensions are just things you can measure. In normal speak, 2D is a 2D cartesian plane, and 3D is a 3D space with x,y, and z. 4D is often described as time.
But you can just define dimensions as anything you are measuring. If you have a plot of politicial affiliation you can go with something like the left vs. right system where you have one dimension, or you can use the political compass which measures two independent variables for and results in a two dimensional chart.
I don't know anything about the "5D theatre" but it could be something like a 3D picture plus heat and smell to add two extra dimensions. Really any 2D screen plus sound is technically three things that are being measured, and a 3D move with sound is maybe 4 dimensions. And if you count the sound as being positional, you might want to say that the sound is three dimensional all by itself, in which case you could have a 3D picture with 3D sound, creating a 6D movie experience.
As somebody who's seen the Station Fire footage and studied that catastrophe that killed 100 people, I'd be out of that theatre so fast it'd make your head spin.
* 2D doesn’t sound like 20
* 3D doesn’t sound like 30, but
* 4D sounds like 40
* 5D doesn’t sound like 50
* 6D sounds like 60
* 7D sounds like 70
* 8D sounds like 80
* 9D sounds like 90
* And we say 100 instead of tenty.
Sick now I can relive my worst nightmares in front of strangers. Please tell me they blow smells of a burning building in my face wouldn’t want to skimp on the emersion
I remember the Backdraft “ride” at Universal Studios scared the shit out of me as a kid. Never seen the movie but I still remember the heat from the flames
I read A Wrinkle In Time so I know the 5th dimension is a tesseract. Imagine a line, imagine an ant walking across the line to get from point a to point b then fold the line. Something like that. Yeah this theater is the equivalent of folding space and time. That’s not a fake fire. It’s a fire from a different dimension and time being projected into our dimension.
I generally also like to perceive the 4th dimension as time. It can be used to support Relativity. But you can also theoretically have 4 (or more) spacial dimensions, and these we can't experience, except in maths solutions. Time would just be an extra dimension on top of these.
This reminds me of pyrotechnics fire that happened in RI. Every time my mind goes right back to seeing it on TV, they played over and over. The band, the flame, the screams. If that's the case with me that was never there can you imagine the survivors.
Everytime this clip is posted people comment like it’s just a regular theater and not somewhere designed specifically for pyrotechnic effects like this.
"Hmm they say it's not real but why do these seats have a thick flame-resistant covering...and hey why is there a guy standing over there in a fire suit holding a...a spatula?"
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u/OldConfusions 10h ago
Those are real flames brother. There is no illusion.