Representing Pasts – Visioning Futures

Abstract

Mixed reality refers to a novel state-of-the-art technology, which has the potential power of shaping the future of people’s lives through the introduction of a unique approach to information presentation. Spatial design is a type of conceptual design that advances from the traditional specialism in art to deliver value and immersive experience in real and virtual spaces. Formerly, classic cinema was more of narrative art, but with time it has adopted spatial art that situated the stories and the objects in a virtual world. Mixed reality is the newest technology after virtual reality and augmented reality, and it allows the user to see virtual images that are more real and precisely reflect the real world. This technology is a product of rapidly evolving and changing technology that merges the virtual world with the real world which becomes widespread. This paper relies on the literature review and classifies information on the mixed reality over time through a literature analysis of relevant research papers published within the 5 years, this analysis reveals the trend in terms of the past and present experiences of mixed reality prediction on the future projections of the technology. It also debates filmmaking as an applied field to expose the advantages and disadvantages of mixed reality interfaces into the cinematic production. This paper is designed as an overview to reflect the current and future aspects of mixed reality in cinema and how it has impacted spatial design in film production which considered a virtual system to stage movement with ability to present space solutions related to the viewer perception. Its main objective is to assist in understanding the trend technology and focus on the applications as well as implications of the research where the mixed reality interfaces are more applicable.