I like old movies and even new ones.  The other night I was watching an old black and white movie from the mindset of contrasting the shows and movies I grew up on to that of today's CGI and more "advanced" visual medium aspects and it got me wondering, just where is visual entertainment heading?

What kind of started this was comments by my daughters when it comes to older entertainment and how bad it looks (and sometimes is) and I tried to explain to them that sometimes you have to force yourself to see older things in relative time-frame ways, but they just don't "get it." 

So, that got me thinking, where is all this headed?  I mean, compared to a plate on a string as a flying saucer for back in the day premier special effects to what we have now, how can visual technology go much further, then it hit me:

I believe the next major advances in visual entertainment are going to be way to put the viewer right in what is being seen and I mean, right in it and not like what we see today with virtual reality - this is going to be way more advanced.  That, it is going to be like you are right in the room with the entertainers.  That you are going to be able to see things like hairs on a head wave in the wind as if you were next to the person.  That, you will even have the perception that you could reach out and touch them. 

Then, the next phase will be that of replicating all the environment within a visual scene.  You will feel the wind, smell the stink, just like all those theater owners back in the day tried to create in theaters with all the gimmicks.  And this even goes with all other sensory aspects of a human - sound, too. Even pain, pleasure and altered states.

I also believe that whether you like him or not (and I despise the fucker), Musk is on to something with his talk of brain implants and someday, we are going to have the capability to "Bluetooth" something right into our brains (and if you think of it, that is another Pandora's Box to ponder - the implications of that happening are fascinating if one sits down and thinks about in evolutionary ways - like, how such a thing will biologically alter our brains and thought processes).

On a side note - I almost believe Musk came up with his implant ideas while high on some sort of drug because I can tell this - sometimes when I imbibe with an edible and watch visual programs, I get flashes of being inserted right into the program.  It only lasts a few seconds, but it is there.  It's like I'm that little Google Maps figure you pick up and drop onto a map to visually see the road you are on.

(Just thoughts to get away from all the fucking misery in this world right now).