videodrome

English

Etymology

video- +‎ -drome

Noun

videodrome (plural videodromes)

1. A 360-degree theatre, a circular room where the viewer sits or stands in the center and films are projected on the walls on all sides.
   • 1985, The New York Times Theater Reviews, page 394:

     Drawing upon his own experience in television production, Mr. Jesurun freely mixes electronic action and live performance — last season with "Deep Sleep," a movie on stage, currently with "White Water," a videodrome drama at the Kitchen.

   • 1991, “Reforming the Forests of the Interior West”, in Forest Watch, volume 12, page lxxxvii:

     The panarama's like being inside a videodrome of revolving landscapes by Thomas Moran.

   • 1996, Bjarne Stoklund, Ethnologia Europaea: Journal of European Ethnology (Volume 26, issue 1), →ISBN, page 56:

     At the moment there are two types of VR: one which one can experience via a stereohelmet, a glove and even a complete dress (cybersuit), and one which one can experience in a videodrome.

   • 2004, Gio Ponti, Domus: - Issues 870-871, page 56:

     It was a seven story building where you first had to "buy time" in order to use over 50 facilities ranging from a videodrome to a swimming pool.

   • 2012, Jan Mark, Useful Idiots, →ISBN:

     Bereft by the power failures, people who would normally be relaxing indoors in their viewing rooms with their home media had ventured out into the windy darkness, darker than ever they had expected or known, to places of entertainment — videodromes, concert halls, theatres, anything rather than sit at home in the derisive silence.