![]() There’s even the possibility of inserting yourself - or an avatar of yourself - into your favorite movies or shows while they’re unraveling. But in 2032, you might head out of the latest Marvel flick, slip on your AR glasses, and immediately transform the world around you into Tony Stark’s workshop, complete with your very own interactive J.A.R.V.I.S. How will those stories play out in the metaverse? The possibilities are endless (and, for now, mostly theoretical). But in the next 10 years, VR and AR devices will become cheaper and easier, letting us enter the metaverse and interact with our favorite fictitious worlds and characters - a phenomenon that Bredow and his ILM team refer to as “story-living.” Granted, high-end high tech like virtual-reality headsets (which place you within a 360-degree interactive environment) and augmented-reality glasses (which overlay digital elements onto the real world) have yet to become must-have accessories. No matter how you define it, the metaverse will give big-budget Hollywood storytelling a major creative jolt. “Every time we have one of these discussions, the first question I ask is, ‘What do you mean by “metaverse”?'” “It’s kind of an overloaded term,” he says. Rob Bredow, the SVP, chief creative officer of Industrial Light & Magic, whose history of visual-effects innovation includes everything from Terminator 2: Judgment Day to WandaVision, says even cutting-edge creators aren’t in sync when it comes to the metaverse. Not sure what that implies? You’re not alone. Talk to enough experts about Hollywood’s next decade, and one thing becomes clear: The immersive virtual world known as the metaverse is coming. ![]() So fire up your VR headsets and buckle your dingle-dangles: Here are some predictions for what to expect a decade from now, courtesy of some of the savviest people we know in showbiz and Big Tech. The result will be “the most dramatic shift ever in the way that stories are made, told, and consumed,” says Avengers: Endgame filmmaker Joe Russo. By 2032, EW’s pundits believe that every aspect of entertainment - from moviemaking to concert-going - will be transformed by new technologies, whether it’s AR or VR, deepfakes or dingle-dangles (we made that last one up). And thanks to the pandemic, we’ve spent the last two years left to our digital devices, which work together to form a kind of ceaseless screen: A 24-hour escape-pod stocked with Yellowstone episodes and A24 movies, TikTok clips and Roblox adventures.īut as radical as the last few years have been, changes to the pop-culture landscape are only beginning. To understand how much things can change in just ten years, consider this: Back in 2012, Disney and Fox were stand-alone studios Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu were mostly airing other people’s properties and the just-launched Spotify was setting now-quaint listening records, thanks to Gotye (he’s just somebody that we used to know).Ī decade later, streaming-whether you’re mainlining movies, TV series, albums, or podcasts-has become a daily (if not hourly) way of life. What is clear from our conversations with nearly two dozen insiders is that the next decade will be a seismic one for Hollywood, as it continues its awkward, long-running marriage with Silicon Valley - a union that’s upending entire industries and altering our pop culture metabolisms. But how we’ll enjoy them, and what forms they might take, is where the future gets fuzzy (and maybe a little daunting). Movies, music, TV shows, podcasts, video games: Our forecasters agree they’ll continue to play huge parts in our lives in 10 years. “As long as humans are living on the surface of the planet in 2032,” says Seth Rogen, “movies will still be a thing.” Even better, our experts are confident that we’ll have lots of compelling stuff to listen to, watch, and play. First, the good news about 2032: It’s probably going to happen! After surveying a wide range of future-thinking artists and executives about what pop culture will look like a decade from now, EW is happy to report that they all believe civilization will still be standing in 10 years.
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