 I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm. |
| There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology. |
| When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience. |
| But as far as the concept of HAL, who HAL was, his character - I had no role in creating him. |
| My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes. |
| I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions. |
| The technology of the time dictated the way things looked. |
| Clearly, if we'd had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color. |
| It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before. |
| We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain. |
| My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures. |
| There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens. |
| IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film. |
