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Immersive Home Video  
  Technology lets users interact with home videos.  

In the film, a remarkable technology makes it possible for Tom Cruise's character to interact with his home movies.


(From Minority Report movie [2002])

From Minority Report (Movie), by Steven Spielberg.
Published by Dreamworks in 2002
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Compare to dimensino from Time is the Simplest Thing (1961) and the immersive rifle range from Way Station (1963) by Clifford Simak. See also Ray Bradbury's parlor wall from Fahrenheit 451 and peeper from Simak’s 1957 story Shadow World and the Perky Pat layout from The Days of Perky Pat (1963) by Philip K. Dick.

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