If you’ve ever stood in line for a film to make sure you bought a seat smack dab in the midst of all of the theater’s encompass sound audio system, you’ll recognize the thought behind the Flexound Pulse: a redesigned theater chair that offers each viewers member their very own private surround sound experience irrespective of the place they find yourself sitting.

Movie theaters are struggling to compete with the ever-increasing capabilities of dwelling theaters coupled with first-run films now premiering on streaming providers. Enhancing the general expertise has been a largely profitable method to lure audiences again: Oversized lounge chairs have changed the customarily sticky and infrequently damaged folding seats in lots of theaters throughout the nation. Finland-based Flexound needs to take that concept one step additional.

The walled design of the Flexound Pulse not solely implies that viewers members can have an added stage of privateness to assist reduce distractions throughout a movie, it additionally facilitates the chair’s capacity to encompass every particular person with a personal soundscape. Using a vibrating soundboard and drivers constructed proper into every chair’s cushioning, the Flexound Pulse can ship audible frequencies that really feel like they’re coming from a number of totally different instructions (recreating a 5.1 speaker setup) in addition to inaudible frequencies as low 500 Hz that may be felt all through the physique. You could not notice it, however one of many principal causes a movie show expertise is so satisfying is due to all that bass you’re feeling within the theater.

It’s a novel concept that’s basically totally different to how film theaters have been designed and constructed for many years. In addition to creating each seat in the home the most effective place to sit (a minimum of in relation to sound), the Flexound Pulse theater chairs require much less energy to function and produce much less sound overall, so that you’ll by no means hear what’s taking place within the theater proper subsequent door in a multiplex. Just carrying headphones to a film might arguably present the identical impact, however turning your head modifications the place all of the sounds are coming from in relation to the display screen (except your headphones supply motion-tracking), which is an issue that doesn’t have an effect on how the Flexound Pulse delivers sound.

If you need to attempt the brand new encompass seating for your self you’ll must e book a go to to Finland or Malaysia—only a few film theaters have adopted the Flexound Pulse seating at this level. Tthe corporate is accepting preorders and hopefully audiences in North America—a minimum of these areas the place film theaters are open once more—will get to expertise it quickly.