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DartzPrombronGrayDesign_Orange_noLogo.jpg (JPEG Image, 3000 × 1700 pixels) - Scaled (34%) The Most Fourth Wall-Breaking Moments in Television History. Breaking the Fourth Wall (Concept) Overview "The fourth wall" is an expression stemming from the world of theater. In most modern theater design, a room will consist of three physical walls, as well as a an imaginary fourth that serves to separate the world of the characters from that of the audience. In fiction, "breaking the fourth wall" often means having a character become aware of their fictional nature. This can range from a character advising the player to "Press X" in a tutorial (referring to a controller button that does not exist in the game) all the way to Psycho Mantis reading the player's memory card and mentioning the other games they've been playing.

However, the most conventional violation of the fourth wall is when a character (or the game itself) openly acknowledges they are in a video game, or directly refers to the player. Examples Comical Effect Breaking the 4th wall in games is often used for a comical effect or to re-enforce the fictional natures of the game. Tutorials Story Events Character awareness. VERY INTERESTING UNKNOWN FACTS. 15 Fun Facts you probably didn’t know.

Visualizing WiFi Signals with Light. 23 incredible new technologies you’ll see by 2021. Technology / Computers. Heads Up, Hoverboarders: Here Comes Quantum Levitation. Few motifs of science fiction cinema have been more appealing to us than the subtle defiance of gravity offered by futuristic hovercraft. So every once in a while we check in to see how humanity is progressing on that front, and whether the promise of hoverboards will be delivered by 2015 as evidenced in Back to the Future Part 2. We’re not quite there yet, but we’re definitely getting off the ground, so to speak. Get ready to hover your brain around the art of quantum levitation. That’s right, quantum. Normally that word indicates that it’s difficult to explain what’s going on. Because of its chemical properties, a superconductor (when brought to low enough temperatures using, say, liquid nitrogen) exhibits this effect, causing the energy from the magnet below to warp around the superconductive object in a way which “locks” it in space.

NASA has been interested in quantum levitation for quite a while, as it turns out. Connections: Heads Up, Hoverboarders: Here Comes Quantum Levitation. 23 incredible new technologies you’ll see by 2021.