In the past, when CGI was still in its primal form, filmmakers had to be intuitive in the way they made their films look real. For the 1990 spy-thriller the Hunt for Red October, the production team set out to create a set that resembled the immense underwater canyons of the north Atlantic. Within these sets, Models of submarines where suspended from the ceiling to make the experience as realistic as possible. Nowadays, in a world of blue- and greenscreens, one can only dream about how these film sets would have looked like.

The sublamp draws inspiration from the times where CGI was still a thing of the future, and where on-set immersion was essential to the authenticity of a film.