How IMAX Dome Theaters Offer A Different Experience To Regular IMAX

It's a less-cinematic experience that's been the highlight of many museum field trips.

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IMAX advertises itself as the "world's most immersive movie experience," but with roughly five kinds of systems using varying technological setups, it offers different levels of immersion to movie lovers depending on which IMAX-branded theater they enter.

As we learned with the IMAX 70mm release of The Odyssey, film nerds take their viewing experiences quite seriously, some traveling to other cities or states to see…