Probably, in person, for the foreseeable future you'll just watch a movie IRL when people are in the same room, and that's fine and I like that.
What this will allow is for you to watch a movie with your friends remotely in a way that is compelling.
My gf and I were long distance for a few months. It was really hard, but being able to video chat every day really helped. Unfortunately, anything beyond that was difficult, like watching a movie, because the experience was awful. The closest we were able to do was use a browser extension that would sync our streams, and then have a chat box.
With this, remotely, you guys can watch the same movie, chat, see each other, hear each other, still hear the movie, etc...
Will it replace watching am movie IRL? Of course not, and it doesn't have to. I don't think they're trying to replace physical interactions, but they're making a great case for how we can augment and extend our virtual ones.
What this will allow is for you to watch a movie with your friends remotely in a way that is compelling.
My gf and I were long distance for a few months. It was really hard, but being able to video chat every day really helped. Unfortunately, anything beyond that was difficult, like watching a movie, because the experience was awful. The closest we were able to do was use a browser extension that would sync our streams, and then have a chat box.
With this, remotely, you guys can watch the same movie, chat, see each other, hear each other, still hear the movie, etc...
Will it replace watching am movie IRL? Of course not, and it doesn't have to. I don't think they're trying to replace physical interactions, but they're making a great case for how we can augment and extend our virtual ones.