I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.

The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.

There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.

IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.

Clearly, if we'd had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.

It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before.