12/03/2016 Click

Now on BBC News, it's time for Click.

I there. I'm Spencer Kelly and welcome to a world first. For years

now everyone's been banging on about virtual reality and how amazing it

will be one day when someone thinks of something interesting to do with

it. We are fed up with the talk so this week we're going to do

something interesting with it. This week's Click has been filmed

entirely in 360 degrees to be enjoyed in virtual reality. If you

go to this address you can find out how you can watch this programme on

a 360 website or on a virtual reality smartphone app or on a pair

of VR goggles like these. Now, that's great news for you because

you don't have to look at me if you don't want to, you cannot in any

direction you want. OK, so at the moment you're watching this in the

warm old boring TV, but don't worry, we're going to attempt to bring you

some of the VR experience, we're going to move your viewpoint around

for you. Excuse me, I haven't finished yet. Thank you. So, get

ready, enjoy the view, this Click 360.

To get to our first location we need a little left.

And then we'll need to walk. So enjoy the view. And even though

you're only watching this into DD, the fact that we filmed it in 360

means we can do some pretty do things with your picture. -- 2d. So

why not enjoy this extreme view? Well, what better place to start

macro a two than here. Welcome to the glacier in these Swiss Alps. --

Aletsch Glacier about a metre below this note is some very important

monitoring technology that we've got to dig up, and this is cloudier over

here, she started digging. Your have to give us a few minutes for my lips

to thaw and also for us to get in. We're looking for evidence of things

called ice breaks, tremors caused by the glacier as it sticks and bumps

along the underlying rock. The theory is that if the glacier melts

faster the increased melt water acts as a lubricant which then causes the

glacier to slip ever more quickly. I tell you what, cloudier, you

didn't have to make me take the whole hole, did you? I'm joking. So,

this is the box, can we open it? Yeah, we can. Right, so what is in

here? In here there is actually... There is an orange box where you

have the receiver of the seismic metre. This is taking measurements

from a seismometer which is taking measurements from the glacier

itself? Yes. And you have the wave forms of the seismic meters and that

is what is recorded from below. And if we do this... Something happens.

You probably can't see from there but something happened, that was a

cloudier quake. What causes the vibrations in the glacier? The

vibrations are normally caused by the movement of the glacier because

the glacier flows, and then the ice cracks when it flows. And then it

creates the crevasse is and when it cracks it also creates the seismic

signal. And how will that help our greater knowledge of glaciers and

these kind of conditions? The goal at the end is... When we can

understand how the glaciers flow we can better predict what happens in

the future, especially when we have a warmer climate, we have more

meltwater especially. Cool. All right, carry on about your work,

thank you. Thank you. And just to point out, Matterhorn over there.

Jungfrau over there. That's if you want to look around.

The research is being conducted by ETH, the Swiss Federal Institute of

technology, and will return to ETH later in the programme. -- we'll.

For now, as we leave the glacier, let's all sit back and enjoy a

ride. Spectacular stuff. Now at this point

you might be wondering what kind of kit we are using to capture

everything in 360. That last shot, the one inside the helicopter, was

filmed using one of these, a seater, two cameras, one facing that way and

the other facing the other way. For better results you're going to need

what you're wearing right now. Smile, you're currently a

constellation of six GoPro camera is which together capture their entire

surroundings. This man here if you haven't noticed him is soul rogers,

our 360 and VR expert, thanks for having us. No problem. I'm glad it

all worked. Would you consider this to be the best in class at the

moment? This is the go to solution for our shoots. They are consumer

cameras, GoPros, they are 4K, they get really close together, when used

in anger you can make some amazing images. This is one camera, very

wide angle lens, and it produces a pretty good image. It can shoot

almost 360? A bit at the bottom, but we don't have a professional camera

system yet, there's a few about to come out but I'm hoping for someone

to invent a spherical sensor, one sensor that shoots in all

directions. Is that even possible? Scientifically. At the moment the

industry is having to cobble together hardware from the 2D

industry. Our hardware, our software, even skilled artists are

coming from the games industry, other industries, leveraging their

knowledge and tools into something brand-new but it's not set in stone

yet. And I'm guessing that applies to content as well as the

equipment? Absolutely, we took 130 years to make film, we're very good

at it now, but we've only done VR for two years so the directors have

only had a couple of projects under their belt, it will take time to get

it right but it's super exciting. It certainly is and we think we've done

another world first for you this week, we have filmed what we think

is the world's burst 360 degrees magic trick. So what we're going to

do is we're going to show you in 2D as you would see it on TV first, and

then later on we'll show you in for 360 so you can see everything that

happened in the room. So have a think about how it might have been

done. I'm just going to pop up over there and hand over to our friendly

magician then heart. Thank you, Spencer. Hello, my name is Ben Hart

and I'm a magician, welcome to this, the inside of my brain, desolate,

cavernous, bleak. Anyway, we're not here for therapy, we're here for a

miracle, and nothing says miracle like a plastic glass of orange

squash and a cardboard tube. Orange juice, chew, concentrate.

Concentrate! I told you, they're not going to laugh at that. I will cover

the glass with the tube. Now the producers tell me I need to bring a

bit of pizzazz to the whole thing so I have a collapsible magician's top

hat. Now, if I cover the top of the glass and squeeze very tightly I can

turn the whole thing upside down and no liquid will escape. That's just

science. But this is the bit that's magic as I make the glass vanish

completely. OK. You got it yet? The big 360

reveal is coming later in the programme. But for now we're going

back to Switzerland heading underground.

Welcome to the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.

Right now you're standing inside Srna, the European organisation for

nuclear research, and you've got a view that many few people will ever

see -- Cern. We're about 100 metres beneath the Swiss French border and

above you is just one of the experiments at the Large Hadron

Collider. Itself the largest machine in the world. In a few minutes we

will head up there, yes, on that cherry picker to see what happens

when you smash particles together at close to the speed of light. But

before we do, let me show you what kind of kit you need to get things

going that fast. So here we are walking along part of the Long

circular tunnel that houses the LHC. And that's it next to you, that

is the Large Hadron Collider, that collection of magnets. It's a 27

kilometre long loop. There are four experiments on the LHC and ten

accelerators in the complex, which together accelerate bunches of

particles up too close to the speed of light. Each section in the tunnel

performs a very specific function, from cooling things down two -271

Celsius, or focusing the beam. More specifically beams that fly around

the ring. Because there are actually two parts running in opposite

directions, and that's so eventually you can smash the two sets of

circulating beams together and create conditions similar to those

at the birth of the universe. So, would you like to see what that

looks like? Yes, I thought so, me too. This cavern contains the CMS

experiment, a compact new solenoids, although there's nothing

compact about it if you ask me. This is one of the places that helped to

discover the Higgs boson. So that big, shiny pipe above you is

connected to the tunnels that we were just in and when the beams of

particles are going fast enough, tiny adjustments are made to bring

those to beams together until right here they collide. In an instant,

the particles are smashed to pieces. And it's these even smaller

particles that the CMS can detect. It's an enormous sense that looks

for the fundamental building blocks of the universe. By using even

higher energy collisions, the macro one size tests hope to find other

particles and explain mysteries like dark energy and dark matter that

makes up 95% of the matter in our universe. This is big science

performed on the tiniest of scales. OK, we have learned so much about

making an filming programmes in 360. I couldn't begin to tell you

what we are going to do now. We are going to get technical and dirty for

a second. Once you have filmed in 360 on these six go pro cameras you

don't just automatically get a virtual reality experience out of

it, you have got to stitch those pictures together into some kind of

ball that we can then put you in -- GoPro. The man nodding on my right

is the man who has spent the last couple of weeks stitching together.

His name is Steve. How was it? Awful. Horrible. I hate it. How much

work is it? In one sense, surely, you can get the software to glue the

pictures together. That would be the dream. With normal TV you put it

together and it would take a day or two. With this you have an extra

step in the middle where you have to stitch of this ball you mention. It

looks fine now but the problem is caused by gaps between the cameras,

between the six cameras. If you go into the new term into a ghost. --

U-turn. The thing that is a huge effort. We have found if you go too

close to the cameras there is no way you can stitch it. That would look

terrible. Goodness knows what you are seeing right now but I will see

it later. Whether or not the art will be a success isn't just down to

the text -- VR. What you can watch and experience will be almost as

important. If I was on an ordinary television programme I would say

that it was about 40 metres long, which is as long as three

double-decker buses in line, and it could reach up to the top of a

5-storey building. We can see for ourselves. Shall we? We may be the

first lot crazy enough to make a whole show in 360 but there are

certainly other people out there making really interesting 360

stories. A titanic saws brought back to life in this recent documentary

short by the BBC -- Titanosaur. A great example of how VR can immerse

you in any spurious that would be otherwise impossible. It can also

transport you write to the middle of the act and like no other medium can

-- immerse you in and experience. It can even let him eat people and see

things that you otherwise never would. I am an urban beekeeper. The

idea of viewing programmes in 360 degrees may be a new idea but

looking all around themselves in a videogame as a player is not. Here

is what we think is another first, a videogame preview in 360. So, while

we've been warping space, Mark is about to walk time. This is a

preview of a game unlike any you have seen before -- warp time. It is

in 360 degrees, it is for a title which supports virtuality headsets

but I suppose most people will play it on a PC or iMac looking at their

normal screen. The premise behind Super What is a faster you move, the

faster time moves in the game. The player is dropped into a variety of

perilous scenarios. The environment like this is stark and drained of

colour. The opponents, faceless, crimson enemies, like this fellow.

The player punches and shoots and by moving really, really slowly, they

can avoid the deadly accurate shots of the bad guys.

It is a really, really difficult game. If you are hit once, that is

it, it is game over. Practice reveals that it is often necessary

to chain attacks to gain the upper hand over the enemies. You have to

throw an object at them, grab their weapon and turn it against their

crystalline colleagues. One of the easiest ways of describing it is

perhaps like a game designed by the movie director Christopher Nolan at

his most insane. This isn't so much of a shoot them

up, it is more of a slow them up with tactical problems generated by

the temporal trixiness of the title become combat puzzles that are

solved by repeated trial and error and almost endless restarts, until

you manage to get to the end of a level and you are greeted with the

words... Super Hot. That was marked. Now, back to ETH in Switzerland,

where things are getting wet. You are flying above the laboratory of

hydraulics, hydrology and glaciology. Although you is a model

of the patronage damn in Pakistan. You are en route to an Ethiopian dam

which is even more spectacular and why are they building them Bass the

point is when the massive full-size versions are built, they will

withstand the huge pressures they will be under -- Patron Damn. --

Patron Dam. Right, we are half full now, and I have Professor Robert

Boes with me and I am just going to move up here... LAUGHS.

Water is creeping over to where we were going to have a chat. You are

the director of this lab? Yes, I am. And we have to Mac scale models of

the outlet pipes underneath the dam, deep in the earth, underneath the

dam. These are important safety devices for the lowering of the

reservoir level. And they are from 100 metres below the maximum water

level. So, the water is going to be 100 metres... So, the pressure of

the water that comes through these pipes is going to be huge. It is

tremendous. It is very challenging from a hydraulic design point of

view, because if this structure fails, the whole dam would be at

risk. Now, it is important to note what we are seeing here, this is

just... We are just filling this area at the moment. This is not the

pressure or speed the water will be coming out of the dam when it is

full. That is the next thing we are going to show you and that is pretty

impressive. That is right. What is worrying me is over the other side a

man is playing... LAUGHS. That says Timmy got to get out of

here... Before we get wet. It is a question of time. -- he says it is a

question of time. And this is what full flow looks like, and remember

this is just a scale model. If this were the real thing I am pretty sure

you wouldn't want to be standing, or even swimming, anywhere near it.

This view is good enough for me. OK. That is nearly it for Click 360. One

thing left to do. You may remember earlier we showed you the magician

Ben Hart's magic trick in 2D and we asked you how you thought it might

have been done. Here is the answer, we will take you back to his studio

this time in 360 so you can see everything that happens in the room.

Thanks for watching Click 360. This is how we did it. Out of the space,

please. 360 magic, scene one, take eight. Lovely, quiet, please,

everybody. Ready? And action. Thank you, Spencer. Hello, my name is Ben

Hart and I am a magician. Welcome to this, the inside of my rain,

desolate, cavernous, bleak... Anyway, we are not here for therapy,

we are here to do a miracle and nothing says miracle like a plastic

cup of squash and a tube. -- brain. Concentrate. Concentrate. I told

you, they were laughed at that. I will cover the glass with a tube.

The producers tell me I need to bring a bit of pzzazz to the whole

thing, so I have a collapsible magician top hat. -- pizzazz. If I

cover the top of the glass and squeeze very tightly I can turn the

whole thing upside down and no Likud will escape, and that is just

science. But this is the bit that his magic as I attempt to make the

glass vanished completely. -- vanish.

Hello again. A bit like last night there is some more mist and fog

around as we