TECHNES Encyclopedia Database

And it was also in the early 1960s that technologies were developed no longer only for audiovisual stimulation but also to produce odours (with, in particular, Charles Weiss’ AromaRama and Hans Laube’s Smell-O-Vision) and tactile sensations (William Castle’s Percepto).

IMAX cinema, with its monumental screens seeking to cover the entire field of view, appeared in 1970 with the first projection of an IMAX film, at the Osaka World’s Fair. The first permanent IMAX theatre was established in Toronto’s Cinesphere in 1971. The IMAX Dome (or OMNIMAX), for its part, began projecting images onto a hemispheric screen in 1973. This system places viewers in the heart of the image, while IMAX 3D offers stereoscopic projection onto a very large screen.