:00:00. > :00:07.Now on BBC News, it's time for Click.
:00:08. > :00:17.I there. I'm Spencer Kelly and welcome to a world first. For years
:00:18. > :00:21.now everyone's been banging on about virtual reality and how amazing it
:00:22. > :00:26.will be one day when someone thinks of something interesting to do with
:00:27. > :00:30.it. We are fed up with the talk so this week we're going to do
:00:31. > :00:35.something interesting with it. This week's Click has been filmed
:00:36. > :00:40.entirely in 360 degrees to be enjoyed in virtual reality. If you
:00:41. > :00:44.go to this address you can find out how you can watch this programme on
:00:45. > :00:51.a 360 website or on a virtual reality smartphone app or on a pair
:00:52. > :00:55.of VR goggles like these. Now, that's great news for you because
:00:56. > :01:00.you don't have to look at me if you don't want to, you cannot in any
:01:01. > :01:04.direction you want. OK, so at the moment you're watching this in the
:01:05. > :01:09.warm old boring TV, but don't worry, we're going to attempt to bring you
:01:10. > :01:13.some of the VR experience, we're going to move your viewpoint around
:01:14. > :01:18.for you. Excuse me, I haven't finished yet. Thank you. So, get
:01:19. > :01:46.ready, enjoy the view, this Click 360.
:01:47. > :01:56.To get to our first location we need a little left.
:01:57. > :02:20.And then we'll need to walk. So enjoy the view. And even though
:02:21. > :02:25.you're only watching this into DD, the fact that we filmed it in 360
:02:26. > :02:39.means we can do some pretty do things with your picture. -- 2d. So
:02:40. > :02:47.why not enjoy this extreme view? Well, what better place to start
:02:48. > :02:56.macro a two than here. Welcome to the glacier in these Swiss Alps. --
:02:57. > :02:59.Aletsch Glacier about a metre below this note is some very important
:03:00. > :03:07.monitoring technology that we've got to dig up, and this is cloudier over
:03:08. > :03:13.here, she started digging. Your have to give us a few minutes for my lips
:03:14. > :03:25.to thaw and also for us to get in. We're looking for evidence of things
:03:26. > :03:30.called ice breaks, tremors caused by the glacier as it sticks and bumps
:03:31. > :03:36.along the underlying rock. The theory is that if the glacier melts
:03:37. > :03:37.faster the increased melt water acts as a lubricant which then causes the
:03:38. > :03:55.glacier to slip ever more quickly. I tell you what, cloudier, you
:03:56. > :04:00.didn't have to make me take the whole hole, did you? I'm joking. So,
:04:01. > :04:14.this is the box, can we open it? Yeah, we can. Right, so what is in
:04:15. > :04:22.here? In here there is actually... There is an orange box where you
:04:23. > :04:27.have the receiver of the seismic metre. This is taking measurements
:04:28. > :04:30.from a seismometer which is taking measurements from the glacier
:04:31. > :04:39.itself? Yes. And you have the wave forms of the seismic meters and that
:04:40. > :04:45.is what is recorded from below. And if we do this... Something happens.
:04:46. > :04:52.You probably can't see from there but something happened, that was a
:04:53. > :04:56.cloudier quake. What causes the vibrations in the glacier? The
:04:57. > :05:00.vibrations are normally caused by the movement of the glacier because
:05:01. > :05:06.the glacier flows, and then the ice cracks when it flows. And then it
:05:07. > :05:13.creates the crevasse is and when it cracks it also creates the seismic
:05:14. > :05:19.signal. And how will that help our greater knowledge of glaciers and
:05:20. > :05:27.these kind of conditions? The goal at the end is... When we can
:05:28. > :05:30.understand how the glaciers flow we can better predict what happens in
:05:31. > :05:35.the future, especially when we have a warmer climate, we have more
:05:36. > :05:40.meltwater especially. Cool. All right, carry on about your work,
:05:41. > :05:49.thank you. Thank you. And just to point out, Matterhorn over there.
:05:50. > :05:53.Jungfrau over there. That's if you want to look around.
:05:54. > :06:00.The research is being conducted by ETH, the Swiss Federal Institute of
:06:01. > :06:06.technology, and will return to ETH later in the programme. -- we'll.
:06:07. > :06:07.For now, as we leave the glacier, let's all sit back and enjoy a
:06:08. > :06:47.ride. Spectacular stuff. Now at this point
:06:48. > :06:52.you might be wondering what kind of kit we are using to capture
:06:53. > :06:57.everything in 360. That last shot, the one inside the helicopter, was
:06:58. > :07:01.filmed using one of these, a seater, two cameras, one facing that way and
:07:02. > :07:05.the other facing the other way. For better results you're going to need
:07:06. > :07:08.what you're wearing right now. Smile, you're currently a
:07:09. > :07:14.constellation of six GoPro camera is which together capture their entire
:07:15. > :07:19.surroundings. This man here if you haven't noticed him is soul rogers,
:07:20. > :07:24.our 360 and VR expert, thanks for having us. No problem. I'm glad it
:07:25. > :07:28.all worked. Would you consider this to be the best in class at the
:07:29. > :07:35.moment? This is the go to solution for our shoots. They are consumer
:07:36. > :07:38.cameras, GoPros, they are 4K, they get really close together, when used
:07:39. > :07:43.in anger you can make some amazing images. This is one camera, very
:07:44. > :07:49.wide angle lens, and it produces a pretty good image. It can shoot
:07:50. > :07:54.almost 360? A bit at the bottom, but we don't have a professional camera
:07:55. > :07:58.system yet, there's a few about to come out but I'm hoping for someone
:07:59. > :08:04.to invent a spherical sensor, one sensor that shoots in all
:08:05. > :08:08.directions. Is that even possible? Scientifically. At the moment the
:08:09. > :08:14.industry is having to cobble together hardware from the 2D
:08:15. > :08:18.industry. Our hardware, our software, even skilled artists are
:08:19. > :08:21.coming from the games industry, other industries, leveraging their
:08:22. > :08:26.knowledge and tools into something brand-new but it's not set in stone
:08:27. > :08:30.yet. And I'm guessing that applies to content as well as the
:08:31. > :08:35.equipment? Absolutely, we took 130 years to make film, we're very good
:08:36. > :08:41.at it now, but we've only done VR for two years so the directors have
:08:42. > :08:44.only had a couple of projects under their belt, it will take time to get
:08:45. > :08:47.it right but it's super exciting. It certainly is and we think we've done
:08:48. > :08:53.another world first for you this week, we have filmed what we think
:08:54. > :08:57.is the world's burst 360 degrees magic trick. So what we're going to
:08:58. > :09:03.do is we're going to show you in 2D as you would see it on TV first, and
:09:04. > :09:07.then later on we'll show you in for 360 so you can see everything that
:09:08. > :09:12.happened in the room. So have a think about how it might have been
:09:13. > :09:17.done. I'm just going to pop up over there and hand over to our friendly
:09:18. > :09:22.magician then heart. Thank you, Spencer. Hello, my name is Ben Hart
:09:23. > :09:28.and I'm a magician, welcome to this, the inside of my brain, desolate,
:09:29. > :09:32.cavernous, bleak. Anyway, we're not here for therapy, we're here for a
:09:33. > :09:36.miracle, and nothing says miracle like a plastic glass of orange
:09:37. > :09:42.squash and a cardboard tube. Orange juice, chew, concentrate.
:09:43. > :09:47.Concentrate! I told you, they're not going to laugh at that. I will cover
:09:48. > :09:51.the glass with the tube. Now the producers tell me I need to bring a
:09:52. > :09:56.bit of pizzazz to the whole thing so I have a collapsible magician's top
:09:57. > :10:01.hat. Now, if I cover the top of the glass and squeeze very tightly I can
:10:02. > :10:04.turn the whole thing upside down and no liquid will escape. That's just
:10:05. > :10:08.science. But this is the bit that's magic as I make the glass vanish
:10:09. > :10:20.completely. OK. You got it yet? The big 360
:10:21. > :10:23.reveal is coming later in the programme. But for now we're going
:10:24. > :10:29.back to Switzerland heading underground.
:10:30. > :10:37.Welcome to the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.
:10:38. > :10:41.Right now you're standing inside Srna, the European organisation for
:10:42. > :10:48.nuclear research, and you've got a view that many few people will ever
:10:49. > :10:52.see -- Cern. We're about 100 metres beneath the Swiss French border and
:10:53. > :10:57.above you is just one of the experiments at the Large Hadron
:10:58. > :11:02.Collider. Itself the largest machine in the world. In a few minutes we
:11:03. > :11:06.will head up there, yes, on that cherry picker to see what happens
:11:07. > :11:11.when you smash particles together at close to the speed of light. But
:11:12. > :11:16.before we do, let me show you what kind of kit you need to get things
:11:17. > :11:20.going that fast. So here we are walking along part of the Long
:11:21. > :11:26.circular tunnel that houses the LHC. And that's it next to you, that
:11:27. > :11:33.is the Large Hadron Collider, that collection of magnets. It's a 27
:11:34. > :11:37.kilometre long loop. There are four experiments on the LHC and ten
:11:38. > :11:40.accelerators in the complex, which together accelerate bunches of
:11:41. > :11:45.particles up too close to the speed of light. Each section in the tunnel
:11:46. > :11:51.performs a very specific function, from cooling things down two -271
:11:52. > :11:57.Celsius, or focusing the beam. More specifically beams that fly around
:11:58. > :12:02.the ring. Because there are actually two parts running in opposite
:12:03. > :12:06.directions, and that's so eventually you can smash the two sets of
:12:07. > :12:10.circulating beams together and create conditions similar to those
:12:11. > :12:14.at the birth of the universe. So, would you like to see what that
:12:15. > :12:24.looks like? Yes, I thought so, me too. This cavern contains the CMS
:12:25. > :12:27.experiment, a compact new solenoids, although there's nothing
:12:28. > :12:35.compact about it if you ask me. This is one of the places that helped to
:12:36. > :12:38.discover the Higgs boson. So that big, shiny pipe above you is
:12:39. > :12:42.connected to the tunnels that we were just in and when the beams of
:12:43. > :12:46.particles are going fast enough, tiny adjustments are made to bring
:12:47. > :12:52.those to beams together until right here they collide. In an instant,
:12:53. > :12:59.the particles are smashed to pieces. And it's these even smaller
:13:00. > :13:02.particles that the CMS can detect. It's an enormous sense that looks
:13:03. > :13:08.for the fundamental building blocks of the universe. By using even
:13:09. > :13:12.higher energy collisions, the macro one size tests hope to find other
:13:13. > :13:17.particles and explain mysteries like dark energy and dark matter that
:13:18. > :13:25.makes up 95% of the matter in our universe. This is big science
:13:26. > :13:31.performed on the tiniest of scales. OK, we have learned so much about
:13:32. > :13:35.making an filming programmes in 360. I couldn't begin to tell you
:13:36. > :13:39.what we are going to do now. We are going to get technical and dirty for
:13:40. > :13:44.a second. Once you have filmed in 360 on these six go pro cameras you
:13:45. > :13:46.don't just automatically get a virtual reality experience out of
:13:47. > :13:53.it, you have got to stitch those pictures together into some kind of
:13:54. > :13:57.ball that we can then put you in -- GoPro. The man nodding on my right
:13:58. > :14:01.is the man who has spent the last couple of weeks stitching together.
:14:02. > :14:08.His name is Steve. How was it? Awful. Horrible. I hate it. How much
:14:09. > :14:11.work is it? In one sense, surely, you can get the software to glue the
:14:12. > :14:16.pictures together. That would be the dream. With normal TV you put it
:14:17. > :14:19.together and it would take a day or two. With this you have an extra
:14:20. > :14:24.step in the middle where you have to stitch of this ball you mention. It
:14:25. > :14:28.looks fine now but the problem is caused by gaps between the cameras,
:14:29. > :14:35.between the six cameras. If you go into the new term into a ghost. --
:14:36. > :14:39.U-turn. The thing that is a huge effort. We have found if you go too
:14:40. > :14:43.close to the cameras there is no way you can stitch it. That would look
:14:44. > :14:48.terrible. Goodness knows what you are seeing right now but I will see
:14:49. > :14:54.it later. Whether or not the art will be a success isn't just down to
:14:55. > :15:00.the text -- VR. What you can watch and experience will be almost as
:15:01. > :15:05.important. If I was on an ordinary television programme I would say
:15:06. > :15:08.that it was about 40 metres long, which is as long as three
:15:09. > :15:14.double-decker buses in line, and it could reach up to the top of a
:15:15. > :15:20.5-storey building. We can see for ourselves. Shall we? We may be the
:15:21. > :15:24.first lot crazy enough to make a whole show in 360 but there are
:15:25. > :15:29.certainly other people out there making really interesting 360
:15:30. > :15:37.stories. A titanic saws brought back to life in this recent documentary
:15:38. > :15:42.short by the BBC -- Titanosaur. A great example of how VR can immerse
:15:43. > :15:49.you in any spurious that would be otherwise impossible. It can also
:15:50. > :15:57.transport you write to the middle of the act and like no other medium can
:15:58. > :16:01.-- immerse you in and experience. It can even let him eat people and see
:16:02. > :16:12.things that you otherwise never would. I am an urban beekeeper. The
:16:13. > :16:17.idea of viewing programmes in 360 degrees may be a new idea but
:16:18. > :16:22.looking all around themselves in a videogame as a player is not. Here
:16:23. > :16:32.is what we think is another first, a videogame preview in 360. So, while
:16:33. > :16:39.we've been warping space, Mark is about to walk time. This is a
:16:40. > :16:45.preview of a game unlike any you have seen before -- warp time. It is
:16:46. > :16:48.in 360 degrees, it is for a title which supports virtuality headsets
:16:49. > :16:54.but I suppose most people will play it on a PC or iMac looking at their
:16:55. > :17:04.normal screen. The premise behind Super What is a faster you move, the
:17:05. > :17:09.faster time moves in the game. The player is dropped into a variety of
:17:10. > :17:13.perilous scenarios. The environment like this is stark and drained of
:17:14. > :17:25.colour. The opponents, faceless, crimson enemies, like this fellow.
:17:26. > :17:32.The player punches and shoots and by moving really, really slowly, they
:17:33. > :17:41.can avoid the deadly accurate shots of the bad guys.
:17:42. > :17:48.It is a really, really difficult game. If you are hit once, that is
:17:49. > :17:53.it, it is game over. Practice reveals that it is often necessary
:17:54. > :17:56.to chain attacks to gain the upper hand over the enemies. You have to
:17:57. > :18:06.throw an object at them, grab their weapon and turn it against their
:18:07. > :18:10.crystalline colleagues. One of the easiest ways of describing it is
:18:11. > :18:12.perhaps like a game designed by the movie director Christopher Nolan at
:18:13. > :18:29.his most insane. This isn't so much of a shoot them
:18:30. > :18:35.up, it is more of a slow them up with tactical problems generated by
:18:36. > :18:40.the temporal trixiness of the title become combat puzzles that are
:18:41. > :18:43.solved by repeated trial and error and almost endless restarts, until
:18:44. > :18:56.you manage to get to the end of a level and you are greeted with the
:18:57. > :19:00.words... Super Hot. That was marked. Now, back to ETH in Switzerland,
:19:01. > :19:04.where things are getting wet. You are flying above the laboratory of
:19:05. > :19:12.hydraulics, hydrology and glaciology. Although you is a model
:19:13. > :19:17.of the patronage damn in Pakistan. You are en route to an Ethiopian dam
:19:18. > :19:24.which is even more spectacular and why are they building them Bass the
:19:25. > :19:26.point is when the massive full-size versions are built, they will
:19:27. > :19:35.withstand the huge pressures they will be under -- Patron Damn. --
:19:36. > :19:41.Patron Dam. Right, we are half full now, and I have Professor Robert
:19:42. > :19:45.Boes with me and I am just going to move up here... LAUGHS.
:19:46. > :19:50.Water is creeping over to where we were going to have a chat. You are
:19:51. > :19:54.the director of this lab? Yes, I am. And we have to Mac scale models of
:19:55. > :20:01.the outlet pipes underneath the dam, deep in the earth, underneath the
:20:02. > :20:07.dam. These are important safety devices for the lowering of the
:20:08. > :20:12.reservoir level. And they are from 100 metres below the maximum water
:20:13. > :20:17.level. So, the water is going to be 100 metres... So, the pressure of
:20:18. > :20:22.the water that comes through these pipes is going to be huge. It is
:20:23. > :20:27.tremendous. It is very challenging from a hydraulic design point of
:20:28. > :20:31.view, because if this structure fails, the whole dam would be at
:20:32. > :20:36.risk. Now, it is important to note what we are seeing here, this is
:20:37. > :20:39.just... We are just filling this area at the moment. This is not the
:20:40. > :20:43.pressure or speed the water will be coming out of the dam when it is
:20:44. > :20:48.full. That is the next thing we are going to show you and that is pretty
:20:49. > :20:55.impressive. That is right. What is worrying me is over the other side a
:20:56. > :21:00.man is playing... LAUGHS. That says Timmy got to get out of
:21:01. > :21:11.here... Before we get wet. It is a question of time. -- he says it is a
:21:12. > :21:16.question of time. And this is what full flow looks like, and remember
:21:17. > :21:21.this is just a scale model. If this were the real thing I am pretty sure
:21:22. > :21:32.you wouldn't want to be standing, or even swimming, anywhere near it.
:21:33. > :21:39.This view is good enough for me. OK. That is nearly it for Click 360. One
:21:40. > :21:44.thing left to do. You may remember earlier we showed you the magician
:21:45. > :21:52.Ben Hart's magic trick in 2D and we asked you how you thought it might
:21:53. > :21:55.have been done. Here is the answer, we will take you back to his studio
:21:56. > :22:00.this time in 360 so you can see everything that happens in the room.
:22:01. > :22:09.Thanks for watching Click 360. This is how we did it. Out of the space,
:22:10. > :22:19.please. 360 magic, scene one, take eight. Lovely, quiet, please,
:22:20. > :22:23.everybody. Ready? And action. Thank you, Spencer. Hello, my name is Ben
:22:24. > :22:29.Hart and I am a magician. Welcome to this, the inside of my rain,
:22:30. > :22:33.desolate, cavernous, bleak... Anyway, we are not here for therapy,
:22:34. > :22:43.we are here to do a miracle and nothing says miracle like a plastic
:22:44. > :22:46.cup of squash and a tube. -- brain. Concentrate. Concentrate. I told
:22:47. > :22:51.you, they were laughed at that. I will cover the glass with a tube.
:22:52. > :22:55.The producers tell me I need to bring a bit of pzzazz to the whole
:22:56. > :22:59.thing, so I have a collapsible magician top hat. -- pizzazz. If I
:23:00. > :23:02.cover the top of the glass and squeeze very tightly I can turn the
:23:03. > :23:06.whole thing upside down and no Likud will escape, and that is just
:23:07. > :23:11.science. But this is the bit that his magic as I attempt to make the
:23:12. > :23:36.glass vanished completely. -- vanish.
:23:37. > :23:41.Hello again. A bit like last night there is some more mist and fog
:23:42. > :23:42.around as we