Blender - IMAX Theater

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Here's an IMAX theater I created in Blender:

Download link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VkKj0IXt6CKxCcEjm5F82diCPg5x7iCX/view?usp=drive_link

Features:

• 26.0 m x 19.8 m screen. Can be flat or curved.
• 8 rows of stadium seating
• 3 seat variations: low, medium and high poly
• 12 sets of speakers
• Blender drivers

How to use:

• All speakers are linked to either the Speaker_main or speaker_secondary data blocks. Speaker_main is used by the front and corner speakers, while speaker_secondary is used by the side and ceiling speakers. You only need to edit two speakers (one from each data block) to properly play imported sound
• Movies are controlled by the Movie_Texture node group inside the Movie_Screen material shader. The Movie_Screen shader can be accessed by selecting a screen mesh. Videos with 1.43 aspect ratios work best with this node. In Cycles, images are projected onto the screen via a spotlight. In EEVEE, the image is displayed directly on the screen, as light projection is not possible in EEVEE.

I created this Blender file to simulate how it's like to watch videos on a large format IMAX screen. Creating something like this inside a video game engine would certainly be better, but unfortunately, I currently have no idea how to use Unity, Unreal, Source 2 etc. A 360° video could also work as a VR environment, but Blender only renders panoramas natively in Cycles. 

You can find more information and full sized renders on these pages:

https://www.deviantart.com/sn0wsh00/art/Blender-IMAX-Theater-v2-1271329126

https://www.deviantart.com/sn0wsh00/art/Blender-IMAX-Theater-360-Panorama-v2-1272315468