grishnak is a character who belongs to a group of digital no—hopers called super zeroes.pieces of character concept artwork that doesn‘t quite make the grade. grishnak is one of those characters whose life was going to be — he was destined to be an orc in the lord of the rings and he never quite made the grade. 0k, andy, time to strap on the magic leap headset and check out your performance up close. 0h, here we go. over here! ok, so our character has erupted out of the screen and is appearing through a hole in the wall over here. you know who we are? no, of course you don‘t know who we are, we‘re nobodies! oh, i think i‘ve broken my ankle. now he‘s appearing in front of me here on this table, fully 3—dimensional. i love you so much, please, take me home. i can sing, i can dance! just take me home! the closest thing this looks like to anything you might have already seen are the holograms in the original star wars films. george sears is part of the team here. he brought the cg character to life. back in february, actually, we started, we did a half day shoot with andy, an

grishnak is one of those characters whose life was going to be...ndy, time to strap on the magic leap headset and check out your performance up close. 0h, here we go. over here! ok, so our character has erupted out of the screen and is appearing through a hole in the wall over here. you know who we are? no, of course you don't know who we are, we're nobodies! oh, i think i've broken my ankle. now he's appearing in front of me here on this table, fully 3—dimensional. i love you so much, please, take me home. i can sing, i can dance! just take me home! the closest thing this looks like to anything you might have already seen are the holograms in the original star wars films. george sears is part of the team here. he brought the cg character to life. back in february, actually, we started, we did a half day shoot with andy, and later in the week, on the thursday and friday, me and another colleague, who was actually out in florida, we were learning how to use the device after shooting this data. and we had a version of grishnak on the table three days

grishnak is one of those characters whose life was going to be — he was destined to the an orc in the0k, andy, time to strap on the magic leap headset and check out your performance up close. ok, so our character has erupted out of the screen and is appearing through a hole in the wall. you know who we are? of course you don't know who we are, we're nobodies! oh, i think i've broken my ankle. now he is appearing in front of me here on this table, fully 3—dimensional. i love you so much, please, take me home. i can sing, i can dance! just take me home! the closest thing this looks like to anything you might see are the holograms in the original star wars films. movies and television are very much a "lean back" experience. virtual reality and augmented reality, do they offer the opportunity for the audience to be part of the action, more leaning forward? here we have a technology, performance capture, which i think is one of the greatest 21st century tools for an actor. it allows you to play anything, to become anything. and in a new platform, which is sort of taking storytelling into a

and we had a version of grishnak on the table the days after shooting, i think it was.erience. virtual reality and augmented reality, do they offer the opportunity for the audience to be pa rt opportunity for the audience to be part of the action, more leaning forward ? part of the action, more leaning forward? here we have a technology, performance capture, which i think is one of the greatest predictor century tools for an actor. it allows you to play anything, to become anything. and in a new platform, which is sort of taking storytelling into another realm, which almost brings you back to an ancient form of storytelling, which is to be in and amongst the characters that have been created, not separated by a screen. so it is much more, it feels like you are living the story with the characters. this is not the only outfit experimenting with this a! technology. wetter digital and industrial light and magic have also created demonstrations to show the potential of this kit. but for now, this walk with an attitude shows a tantalising taste of the possibilities of augmen