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  • more news from the technological world involves something called mixed reality.

  • As the name suggests, it involves taking what's physically around you and then adding the appearance of something that's not It could be a digital character or a hologram.

  • It could be new kitchen appliances in the empty space of an unfinished house.

  • What could this future look like inside the world's oldest working film studio?

  • A new generation of digital characters like this guy are coming to life.

  • I don't know how to relate to right now.

  • I mean, you're looking great.

  • I have to say, you've done the work.

  • Who is this guy?

  • This is a character called Grishin AC.

  • He has a bit of a digital.

  • No hoper.

  • Basically, he was a piece of concept artwork that never made the grade.

  • Actor Andy Circus is a motion captures Superstar, known for his roles in Lord of the Rings and Planet of the Apes.

  • Do not come back.

  • Now he and his team are creating custom creatures for a new medium mixed reality.

  • It's really the beginning of a whole new realm of storytelling.

  • First came virtual reality immersing you in a digital environment, then augmented reality like Pokemon go projecting digital objects onto the real world.

  • In mixed reality, digital constructs like Gresh Neck anchor themselves in the real world.

  • Okay, so now there's that character right there on the table.

  • His feet are right there on the table.

  • American start up magically is developing headsets that allow you to see the world in this mixed reality.

  • This character is aware of the world can interact with the world.

  • He's also more importantly, aware of you where you're looking and he and interact with you.

  • So right now the goggles, air processing that I'm stepping back, that's all being calculated into what's happening.

  • Absolutely.

  • The little cameras inside there that look that reading your eyes magically backed by billions from investors like Google, JP Morgan and CNN parent company A, T and T mhm envisions a future where, instead of looking down at your phone, your mixed reality glasses and one day a contact lens will project tools like Google Maps on the road in front of you.

  • Yeah, how far away are we from that?

  • From that version of what we're doing?

  • That that's that's on our on our roadmap?

  • I mean, honestly, 10 years 20 years?

  • No, I thought I think a step change off 235 10 years.

  • For now, virtual augmented and mixed reality headsets are still bulky and pricey.

  • Magic leaps cost more than $2000 and took eight years to develop.

  • It's a big task, you know.

  • It's only gonna get better.

  • Giving circus plenty of time to let his imagination run wild.

  • Put some energy into it.

  • Bring up the fear, Bring up the fear and you're panicking.

  • But you can say things.

  • God, we're gonna get out of here.

  • I'll leave that Teoh.

more news from the technological world involves something called mixed reality.

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