The Future Group Raises $20 Million to Blend Real-world Video With Virtual Worlds
The team started with the idea of augmented reality, or putting animated things in the real world, via something like glasses. It then veered off to instead put real people into an animated world. The virtual environment will be built using the Unreal game engine, with technology built on top of it. And the game studio is essentially being moved into the game engine, Kasin said. The technology will use motion trackers to track movements and will translate that into the virtual environment in real time. The technology could work for either live shows or edited, time-delayed programs.
Developers will use the platform to blend the real world video with the virtual environment. And consumers will be able to access a mobile app that they can use to participate in the content. That participation could range from simply voting on what will happen in the game show to things that are more interactive, Kasin said.
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