A cinema special-effects technique whereby the audience is apparently surrounded by low-frequency sound.
as modifierSensurround sound
Example sentencesExamples
Hollywood is itself a hubristic enterprise, built on a geological fault line, a fear examined in Earthquake, the first disaster movie to be screened with seat-rattling technology called Sensurround.
I would have liked the average cinemagoer to see on the screen what Masson saw in her imagination - and for that list and litany of human evil to have been experienced in Sensurround and Dolby.
The team from York's City Screen have spent a year working to bring about the return of the disaster film in its original format with Sensurround which causes the cinema to physically vibrate during the earthquake sequences.
However the lights dimmed and the Dolby Sensurround richly broadcasted itself with all the panache of a ‘proper’ film.
It may well be that performance capture is going to be viewed, a hundred years from now, as a blind alley that a few people went down for a time, and as relevant and as interesting to what's going on as Smell-o-vision or Sensurround.