Celsius in london. Temperatures could push up to 16 celsius weather cloud breaks. Where the cloud breaks. Hello. This is bbc news. The headlines thousands of Prison Officers in london and the South East Of England are to get an instant pay increase of between £3000 and £5000. Ministers said they wanted to attract the best talent after concerns the Prison Service was understaffed. Iraqi forces say theyve taken several villages to the south of mosul, hours after launching a major offensive to retake the western half of the city from Islamic State militants. Save the children warn theres around 350,000 children trapped in the city. The Chief Executive of sainsburys has called for fundamental reforms of business rates, amid concerns upcoming rises could spark high street closures. Now, on bbc news, its time for click. This week waterfalls and flowers, lions all around. Oh, i can see lions and stuff, playing. Big screen excitements, attack of the australian spider box. Big screen excitements, attack of the australian spider bots. Projectors have come a long way. We first met team lab, the 400 strong digital art collective, last year in japan. The team of artists, programmers, engineers, cg animators, mathematicians and the like, love to make an impact and here at the Pace London Gallery, they re presenting eight of their most eye popping pieces. As with the work in tokyo, the idea here combines Motion Sensors and the projectors, which means you have a completely interactive piece that you can touch and change. The whole room has been fully calibrated so the sensors can detect where everyone in the installation is, really, really accurately. And the artwork, the projections, are calculated live. This is not prerecorded video. The pictures really do react to whatever you do while youre in the room. So, for example, i can. Thump. Kill a butterfly chuckles dont show this at home, kids. This room is called flowers bloom 0n people. With no one in here, its just a black room but if you sit around for a few minute, youll find that nature starts to grow on you. Now i would say this is pretty cutting edge Projector Technology but marc cieslak has assured me he can give this a run for its money. Go on then, marc. This is a Home Entertainment concept from razor, a company most famous for manufacturing gaming pcs, covered in more lights than blackpool illuminations. The concept makes use of coloured lights and projected images, working together in synchronised harmony. What we have here is a concept lighting rig, which is actually key to the action on screen. So the lights in this room will change colour depending on whats happening, but thats only part of whats going on. So if ijust hit this button here, we get the largest screen ive ever seen. And that giant screen size is thanks to a pretty expensive 4k projector. The projector is fitted with an 155 degree fish eye lens, it combines this with two Depth Sensing cameras which scan the room for objects and furniture. The system then adjusts the image to prevent it becoming distorted. So the idea is that by having a screen which envelopes the peripheral vision of the viewer, you really feel like youre thrown inside the action, and it is surprisingly effective. Game oh, yeah at the moment, this system remains a concept but razor has hinted it might one day bring it to market. That was marc. And now robots. One of the big uses of which these days is to go to places and do work thats not safe for humans. But when nick told us that he wanted to see such a situation on a Paradise Island in australia, we completely believed him but this is his story. Peel island, off the coast of brisbane, queensland, is a serene beauty. But for over 50 years, this remote paradise was a prison. In 1907, this island was designated as a quarantined hospitalfor those with leprosy a so called lazaret. Hundreds from the mainland were sent here in exile for a life sentence, with over half dying in isolation. Since closing in the late 50s, many of the unique buildings have fallen into disrepair. Yeah, look, it has been totally eaten by termites, its just mud now. It is deteriorating on a daily basis, basically. The only thing keeping it is the roof. The majority of the buildings are a death trap, too dangerous structurally for people to enter today. So this group of architectural and Robotics Researchers are developing technologies which will at least help to preserve the buildings digitally. We are doing Laser Scanning of heritage buildings on peel island, using a lot of different kinds of equipment. As many types as we can get. Meet hexapod, this six legged beast is designed to go into buildings too dangerous for humans. With nimble limbs, this light weight bot should traverse all types of terrain. Now, theres another leg. Theres a screw lose. Mmm. Well, it is a work in progress. The team are developing ways for the hexapod to feel the ground around it and detect for itself if the floor is safe enough to walk on. In the meantime, this bot has been built from the ground up, with rapid redesign in mind. It is all completely modular. We can redesign and respec the robot in the field as we go. With this particular one we should be able to generate a real time map as the robot drives through. Depending on what kind of use you want, you can quickly assemble, for example, if you add another system, you canjust take off this wheel, put in another wheel, depending on the room condition, and you are good to go. And, of course, theyve got a drone, equipped with a rotating lidar sensor, the team is using it to autonomously quickly scan the island from above. Im covering this whole clearing here in, i think it was 1a minutes and that will have all of this area mapped from above to walk it and capture all the low stuff, i reckon youre probably looking at half an hour, a0 minutes, maybe longer. Technology really allows us to capture a changing, fragile, remote, degrading site really quickly which is incredibly important because it is falling apart before our very eyes. This is an incredibly rare example of inbuilt racism in architecture. There we rent many lazerets in australia but this was the only example of segregation in a lazaret and so its really important to understand the story and acknowledge the story is part of our history. I cant imagine sitting around here for 30 years, trapped here on an island. Walking around here, its really quite eerie to see how people were forced to live in these conditions against their will. You can see the Inequality Straightaway between how the whites lived, in their purpose built houses with a nice patio and a lovely sea view, and how everyone else, the nonwhites, where they had to sleep and stay. Sometimes four orfive tojust a shed. Now, they were just galvanised iron. The government did not really take too much notice of the aborigines. We need to look down into the ground now, into the cemetery with Ground Penetrating technology, because we do not know how many people are buried. We do not know who they are but it would be nice to knowjust how many and where they are too. Leaving the island, ifeel that i have experienced a little of what it was like to live there. The team want to share that experience with others. They aim to present their findings in Virtual Reality to educate new generations about this part of australias past. Separately, for the Robotics Researchers, the hope is that the know how learnt here will improve smart adaptive bots used in Disaster Relief in the future and perhaps one day save lives. Hello and welcome to the week in tech. A week which saw facebook announce its own app to play videos on your tv. A new cs was born. And a week in which the head of uks newly opened National Cyber security centre, slammed the idea that we should all be expected to use long complicated passwords. And talking of remembering numbers. Phone rings. Remember nokia . Let them help you with the remake of the super popular, turn of the century 3310 model. Hmd, the finnish manufacturer with exclusive rights to the brand is to launch a homage to the almost indestructible model thats famed for great battery life, ease of use and snake. Phone zombies in holland could be a step closer to not getting killed after the dutch start Traffic Lights in the pavement. Called lightlines, the Pilot Project proves that Phone Addicts would rather chance death than look up. Money well spent . More colour changing news this time for your hair. London outfit the unseen says this is the worlds first hair dye that changes colour depending on the temperature. Remarkably, the semi permanent pigment has not turned enough heads just yet its designers are still looking for commercial partners. Meanwhile in dubai, the governments Planning Passenger Drones for this summer. The ehang automatically flies to its destination, carrying one person and, depending on total weight, maybe their bag as well. Now, we have often talked about Virtual Reality, eye beacons and Self Driving Cars on the show but this week, Lara Lewington took a trip to wolverhampton to see how theyre being put to some pretty impressive purposes. Oh, i can see lions and stuff playing. Ive been discovering some of the latest ways that the technology is being used to help the visually impaired. It all starts with a spot of Virtual Reality. 0k. If you can try it this way. You pull it over your eyes. Itjust made me so. It was happiness but it made me cry and ijust couldnt believe that. Id been without full sight for so many years and then all of a sudden i could see things that i hadnt seen for 30 years. Here at the beacon centre, a Charity Supporting those with sight loss, an interesting trial is taking place. Im going to start the video. It seems some people can see things in vr they could never see in the real world or on a screen. Ive lost paul mccartney, though. Youve lost paul . Yes. Oh, no, hes there now id never expected it but when they put the head set on, i mean there was giraffes, coming up and looking at me what would you say to other people with a similar level of vision to you about the experience of being able to do this and the emotional side of it . Oh, if youve got the chance, you have to have a go. Theres nothing quite like it. I mean i know its not full sight, because youve got to wear a machine, im not saying that, but to give you the experience, its just absolutely wonderful. There are a wide range of conditions that cause sight loss. The nature of which can vary hugely, and even for those with similar problems, the benefits of the vr have varied. But along with the university of wolverhampton, experts are trying to understand how this is possible at all. What we found quite quickly is that people who had central loss, macular type conditions, as they are called, are the ones who seem to get most benefit. Where they still had peripheral vision and whether that peripheral vision is so stimulated as to fill in the gaps, or whatever, we dont understand yet, is it because its so close . Is it because there are still sight receptive cells in the centre of the vision, so that when theyre stimulated enough, they will fire and therefore create the vision . Is it the curvature of the lens . Theres a whole host of things were still trying to explore to understand why it works. If i could use that when my daughters doing her school plays or shes singing in the choir, like, i could never pick out who she was or what she was doing or be able to see what you are seeing and that could really be quite life changing. But however clear the Virtual World may seem, finding ways to ease day to day tasks is a real priority. Diversion to the left. Temporary footway in road. Five to ten metres. There are eye beacons built in here which connect this to the mobile app, so if somebody is approaching and they have the app installed in their phone, theyll receive an alert to let them know about the roadworks and how best to approach them. And for someone like louise with two young kids, this smart Street Furniture could make all the difference. Because it tells you which way to go, so it can still be in my pocket. I can have their hands, one each, and i can hear the voiceover, so it will Say Something like the pedestrian crossings coming on the left. Its there for three days or however long. So if i do the school run the same day, i know exactly where its going to be, ive walked that walk yesterday. Also this week, some big claims from a company that say their smart glasses can give the legally blind 20 20 vision. As well as being able to stream content, they capture the users surroundings, converting them into a form, they say, is easier to identify for those with limited vision. Sadly we couldnt put a pair to the test just yet, and its early days for much of what is being trialled here, but the possibilities are certainly looking good. That was lara. Now, Virtual Reality has been grabbing all the headlines in recent years, but dont forget Augmented Reality. Now, this is the idea of projecting Computer Generated images on top of the real world. A bit like this, but in a pair of glasses. A small band of Augmented Reality pioneers have been really pushing the technology. Heres marc again with some pretty classy eyewear. These Augmented Reality glasses are basically a wearable computer. For the last couple of years, Augmented Reality specs have been used primarily in an industrial setting or in the workplace. These have been created by a Company Called odg, and theyve been designed far more with the consumer in mind. They feel a lot closer to normal glasses, so to get the best out of them, i want to move around. So, if i stand up, at the moment, theres a 360 degree video playing. And if i look around, i get a different viewpoint here. I see a robot in front of me and what looks like some kind of futuristic hospital. Theres a guy over here, who seems very unhappy and another guy who looks seems to be shooting at him. The images move seemlessly with my head. If i look around i can see planet earth in front of me. But this is the cool bit it moves. I can walk inside it and see from outside of the planet, and appreciate it from this angle. And if i stand here, yep, a Space Station thats orbiting the earth as well. Now, the glasses know where they are, spacially, because theres a couple of cameras on front of them. And all of the processing is happening on the headset itself. The odgr 8 glasses will cost around £800, but they are basically a wearable computer. There are some cheaper lower Tech Ar Options out there, though. There are lots of low cost Virtual Reality headsets that make use of smartphones. This is a low cost Augmented Reality headset that uses a phone. Phones just slot inside it here. Put an ar app on it and the image on the screen is reflected on these lenses right here. So lets give it a go. So when the headset is on, i can bring down the screen and i scan see graphics reflected from the phone just in the headset. Now, it has another trick up its sleeve as well. You can attach peripherals on to it. So i can see my hands in front of me and use them to cast flames. Take that, mr crocodile just a normal day at the office for marc then. Now, if you were watching the programme last week you would have seen us chatting with the Visual Effects Supervisor for the film, thejungle book. Well, last sunday the team behind it picked up one of the biggest honours in the film world and won the bafta for best Visual Effects. Many congratulations to them and, of course, we will claim absolutely no credit for their victory. You see, we love Visual Effects cant you tell . This week were continuing the build up to the Academy Awards by looking at another movie thats been nominated in the best Visual Effects category, this time its marvels Doctor Strange. Now, we got exclusive access to Industrial Light Magic in london, they worked on the breathtaking final scene in the film set in hong kong. Warning, if you havent seen the movie yet, this next set contains spoilers. I repeat, it contains spoilers. Still with us . Good. I spent so many years peering through time. Looking for you. The idea of reversing the traditional end to any kind of Superhero Movie where it gets bigger and bigger and the city gets destroyed and the superhero Saves The Day, but theres a Big Old Destruction Going On. Well, this is the opposite. Theres a Big Old Destruction Going On and it gets reversed, so by the end the city is pristine, no one knows the hero Saves The Day because he made time go backwards and reversed it all. One of the challenges was constantly selling backwards time, every shot is stuffed with things falling upwards, explosions un happening, puddles un splashing, people un falling over, all these things so we mixed together some footage of people Going Forwards in time, thats one of the conceits in the movie, Doctor Strange and his friends and the bad guys are Going Forward in time, but they are existing in an environment going backwards in time. So mixing those two things together is quite challenging. There are some digital humans in there but theres also a lot of Plate Photography as well so one of the big challenges there was how do you have convincing footage of people moving forwards and backwards but with the camera moving . Well, one of the solutions was using something called Motion Control which was a computer controlled camera so we could film Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange and the camera moving around him appropriately, record the move and then reverse the same move and have the extras running through the frame. Now when you reverse the footage, the camera move goes back to the original movement, but everyone in the frame by virtue of reversing the footage is now running backwards. So now youre mixing together people running forwards and people running backwards in the same footage. Once you get beyond that, of course, every frame is full of explosions and fire and smoke, so the key thing again is blending those things together and then making sure that people arent running through places where theres meant to be an explosion or Doctor Strange hasnt got someone running through his cape of whatever because lots of careful planning has to go into making sure theres no interceptions of the action. So that can be achieved by literally having some markers on the floor, saying, Doctor Strange will be here, but people do forget those things and they sometimes run straight through. Or it could be a case of doing something called body tracking, so we might look at Doctor Strange, work out his arm or shoulder is here in 3 d space by measuring the distance in the computer and having something bounce off his shoulder, so it really sells hes in the plate by understanding the physicality of the area so we can put in some cg generated debris so it can bounce off him and go in a different ways of theres a variety of ways you can approach these things together. This is a breakdown of one of the shots we did. It gives you an idea of some of the layers of material that go into Something Like this. Thats the Plate Photography there. So this was all shot at longcross studios, a set built along the bottom and the top of everything is digital and all the flying debris is digital. And you can also see theres a mixture of actors running forwards and then Doctor Strange in there as well, so shot on different plates and mixed together. So much you dont know. Teach me yep, Benedict Cumberbatch giving doctor who a run for his money in the Timey Wimey Ness of it all. Thats it from us. Tra nscending boundaries is at the Pace London Gallery until the end of march. A few more photos from this and all the other pieces on twitter. bbcclick is where we live. Thanks for watching and well see you soon. Good afternoon. It doesnt feel like winter at the moment. Its mild, and in some areas, we have a little sunshine to enjoy. Not for all. As is often the case with mild atlantic airat this time is often the case with mild atlantic air at this time of year, it is laden with cloud. For a few areas, such as east anglia and in london, we have seen sunshine. Further west, where the air arrives from the atlantic, it is quite cloudy. Macleod has crept in through the day. This Weather Front ushering in more cloud. Eastern areas have the best of the breaks. Towards nightfall, we will see more cloud, and this Weather Front meandering southwards. Heavy rain in the north overnight. Because of the cloud in the breeze, it wont be a cold night for any of us. A brief band of rain will push its way to the south. Murky conditions over the hills and around the coasts. By morning, more heavy rain arriving in the north west of scotland. Through the course of the day, that milder air will encompass the whole of the uk, and that Weather Front will make its way to the south and east. So, the trend continues. Cloudy skies, but temperatures well above average. We start the day at 10 11dc, which is above average for this time of year as it is. We have already had 1a celsius across the country today, and we could have 16 celsius tomorrow. We have that rain as well, sitting across scotland, heading towards the fringes of Northern Ireland for the rush hour. That will be particularly unpleasant, contending with brisk winds, heavy rain, hailfog as contending with brisk winds, heavy rain, hail fog as well. Contending with brisk winds, heavy rain, hailfog as well. Not contending with brisk winds, heavy rain, hail fog as well. Not the sort of whether i would like for my drive to work. East of the pennines, gusty winds. Perpendicular to the flow of traffic across the a1. It turns cooler towards the north through monday night, so slightly cooler across scotland. Yet more Weather Fronts and Low Pressures will move into the north and west. It looks like it could be potentially turbulent around the middle of the week, but generally speaking, later, it gets less mild. I will see you again in half an hour. This is bbc news. The headlines thousands of Prison Officers in london and the South East Of England are to get a pay increase of up to £5,000. Iraqi forces say they have captured several villages on the first day of their offensive to retake Western Mosul from so called Islamic State. Save the children warn 350,000 children are trapped in the city. This is iraqs last city held by the Islamic State. The assault on it is now underway. The Chief Executive of sainsburys has called for fundamental reforms to business rates, amid concerns increases could spark high street store closures. James mattis disagrees that donald trump that the press are the enemy. We sometimes disagree with the press, and i dont have any issues with the press. What next for lincoln city as they wait their fate in the fa cup draw tonight . The draw is at 6 30pm tonight on the news channel. Its the first time a non league has made it to this stage for over 100 years. And coming up, talking business this week looking at how big names brands survive in a technological age. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news
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