Is mixed reality the future of immersive entertainment?

A new experience has pushed its way onto the immersive spectrum in the last few years. Mixed Reality - or MR - has come to describe a fully immersive experience that brings virtual objects into the real world or one which blends the physical world with the digital one.

It’s an advancement of Augmented Reality (AR) experiences like Pokémon Go - which simply add artificial elements to a real scene - but it also recognises and digitises the real world, unlike VR, which exists in a purely artificial environment.

Imagine putting on a headset and watching a football match play out on your living room floor. Or taking part in a live TV gameshow where you get to compete with contestants in the same shared virtual world…