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‘Lightyear’ streams today, the first Pixar film on Disney+ with scenes in IMAX’s Expanded Aspect Ratio

“Lightyear” was the first Pixar movie in two years to make it to theaters. A month and a half later, it finally hits the streaming platform Disney+. Today, August 3, subscribers can watch the “T

Disney+ is launching a special IMAX format for 13 Marvel movies

Disney+ is bringing IMAX’s Expanded Aspect Ratio across 13 Marvel movies on its platform on November 12. The new format means that viewers will see smaller black bars in certain scenes. The company

IMAX pulls the plug on its dream of VR arcades

The company behind the biggest screens in cinema is giving up on bringing VR screens within a few inches of users’ faces. The company announced today in an SEC filing that it will be shutting do

Location-based virtual reality is increasing its footprint in the U.S.

Earlier this year, in a small, grey-walled storefront inside a very large mall in Torrance, Calif. (just past the AMC Center) , the virtual reality game-maker Survios planted its first flag in the mar

IMAX and Conversive launch an AR app with chatty pandas

While IMAX has become synonymous with enormous theatrical screens, Chief Marketing Officer JL Pomeroy told me the company has “been an innovator at the forefront of technology breakthroughs for

Exploring Virtualities, a Utah VR arcade and theater startup taking over a dying mall

Virtualities founder Ryan Burningham has a new idea for abandoned retail spaces -- VR. VR theaters and arcades like Virtualities are starting to pop up in warehouses and other empty spaces around the

IMAX and Warner Bros. to create VR experiences based on Justice League films

The upcoming Justice League movie looks very bad, based on its new trailer – in fact, it could be mistaken for its own parody film. That’s not stopping Warner Bros. from exploring all possible

IMAX’s first European VR center will open before the end of 2016

Huge movie company IMAX is focusing on smaller screens – but still keeping things immersive – with a push into public, shared VR experiences. The latest tentpole in that project is a brand new VR

IMAX to open ‘VR experience’ centers worldwide and develop its own VR camera

IMAX, one company that has pushed cinema technology forward, is preparing to toss its hat into the virtual reality ring with a set of new initiatives.

China To Get Cheaper IMAX Movie Tickets

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/42e7e8121ca46ff4e35e-LL.jpg" /><a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/imax">IMAX</a> is looking to reduce the ticket prices in China and

Sony In Talks To Buy IMAX?

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/imax.jpg" />There are rumors going around right now that Sony is going to make a play for IMAX. Since IMAX is a major (so to speak) venue

IMAX cleaning up, 37% increase in earnings since last year

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/AboutIMAX.jpeg"> <a HREF="http://crunchgear.com/tag/IMAX">IMAX</a>, the company that makes really big movie screens and projectors to mat

Discovery, IMAX, and Sony team up for 3D TV station

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/discoveryFeature300.jpg">Just like clockwork more companies are announcing its plans for a 3D TV stations. ESPN's plans <a href="http://w

Don't forget, Star Trek returns to IMAX today

Kiddies, you must go to your local IMAX theater and see Star Trek during its two week re-run. Even if you saw it the first time around on a standard screen. Trust me, it’s so worth it on an IMAX

Star Trek to return to IMAX theaters this Friday!!!

Did you see Star Trek. You had to see Star Trek. It was tits. But if you missed it the first time around or you need something to do for your anniversary, JJ Abrams’ Star Trek will be re-release

Not all IMAX screens are created equal

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/imax1.jpg">Did you know that not all <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/imax/">IMAX</a> screens are the same size? I had no idea. It

Why the Star Trek IMAX isn't real IMAX

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/trek_enterprise-620x348.jpg">Didja catch <em>Star Trek</em> last weekend? Some people did 'cause the movie brought in an estimated $72.5

"The Dark Knight" returns to theaters

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/poster-art-for-the-dark-knight-the-imax-experience.jpg" alt="" />Just a heads up to the folks out in the crowd that "The Dark Knight" is

All is right in the world: Transformers: Rise of the Fallen coming to IMAX

The Bay, that’s how we’re going to refer to Michael Bay from here on out, has announced that a handful of sequences from Transformers 2 will be shot with IMAX cameras. However, the rest of the mov

"Dark Knight" hitting IMAX again in January

Warner Bros. have their eyes set on swooping up some Oscars this year with the “Dark Knight”, so they’ve announced that Christopher Nolan’s epic sequel in the Dark Knight serie
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