Special exhibits are housed in Rem Koolhaas' high-tech "black box" structure, which allows no outside light to penetrate.

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"Precision Black Pro" display tech is to thank for the high contrast ratio, and colors really do pop -- even without Samsung's grand display of fireworks.

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Perhaps the sea battles in AC3 was a sort of proving ground and getting to work and feel right, so they use the tech in Black Flag perhaps?

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Lots of cool looking tech people with wavy hair and black rimmed glasses participating in meetings from Hong Kong and Silicon Valley using only their smart phones.

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Others movies that had been in the running had been Darren Aronofsky for ballet-themed drama Black Swan, Christopher Nolan for high-tech thriller Inception and David O Russell for boxing movie The Fighter.

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It was, though, jeans and a black blazer, a variation on the well-known stage uniform of fellow tech mogul Steve Jobs.

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