From: rick_s on
By using the same concept as the Time Travel train, that has an old
fashioned train station, and entrance way opening to the strip on Vegas,
or Niagra Falls, or Sunset Boulevard, or Times Square or anywhere where
you see the train station as it was, you see the conductor, you get your
ticket punched, you get on the train, you are fully immersed. You return
to your time and exit the station after your holiday which in Vegas
might include some poker, and a couple actors who will never ever agree
with you, that this is not the past.

Mind you you won't see them much either.

But in similar fashion, you enter a a building close to the water in
some city lets use Toronto, where the G8/G20 is using a Veldt, you could
enter a building and you get ushered onto Captain Nemo's ship for the
adventure of a lifetime which is in fact an expensive dinner with great
views out the windows.

Giant squid, tropical fish, and even bumpy adventure on the coral reefs,
and scenes where people leave the ship with spear guns and all the rest
if you want to extend the stay overnight rather than just have it as a
restaurant.

Sub adventures and of course Airship adventures.

An airship the size of a hotel where you can only look through the
windows of the dirigible, but the food is fantastic and the scenery sublime.

http://gizmodo.com/5381365/beautiful-concept-airship-looks-85-years-into-the-future

85 years or the 2 Christmases from now or whenever someone wants to make
a hotel with 3D TV windows.

Keep in mind, in the Time Travel train, since the screen is 3D things
can come into the train from outside. But they won't unless you film
that. A zombie or Indian could stick half their body through the window
into the train so it might be a real scary experience if you did that.

If you don't do that, or do very little of that, it will be more realistic.

The magic is there to do with what you want by expressing your creativity.

It doesn't seem very novel right now, but a large screen 3D window that
does not require glasses can depict things quite well. Enough to suspend
disbelief, but even if you just enjoy the scenery in safety and comfort
it would be worth the ride. For instance even if you can't fly because
you are pregnant or have a cold you can still have an AMAZING weekend
adventure, to the north pole, or south pole, to see the lost kingdom of
whatever, like in the movie "The Island at the top of the world"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVM7P-mcuWE

or Shangri-La by James Hilton in his classic novel Lost Horizon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Horizon_%28novel%29

You can take a boat ride down some river like the Amazon and be immersed
in that experience. Out the window would be amazing things that you find
in adventure films.

So tomorrows 3D theater, to attract more people to the movies, may begin
to look more like a real trip. And you would expect to pay a few bucks
extra for a convincing great experience.

A trip to Avatar would be popular today.

Any total destruction scenario would probably always be popular.

And all this requires are large 3D screens that do not require glasses
and a bit of construction that is appropriate for the ride.