You won’t need to travel, as you’ll be able explore foreign lands in detail as if you were there, due to a combination of volumetric video and photogrammetry – so you’ll be helping to save the planet by not flying, too.

You won’t ever need to go to a sports or music show, as you’ll be able to experience the event live in 3D from any angle you want at home, courtesy of a couple of hundred cameras shooting the show simultaneously.

Participants in the conference’s “immersive experiences” panel say some of these experiences can be achieved already, while others are within reach.

Christina Heller, CEO of Los Angeles-based Metastage, a company which specialises in volumetric video, says that the technology makes watching events at home as good as being there. Volumetric video uses an array of around 100 cameras to video-capture performances or sports games from many different angles.

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“I can capture a performance from every angle. The result can be viewed in 3D, and it is also authentic to what transpired live,” she says.

What’s more, performers don’t need to put on special suits to interface with the cameras any more, meaning the set-up can be used to shoot anywhere that the camera array can be assembled. “You just do your performance, while the software does everything else,” she says.

The tech can do more than film live events. Real people filmed in the Metastage studio in Culver City can be placed inside 3D landscapes constructed by using photogrammetry techniques that digitally stitch photographs of a real location together to construct a detailed 3D rendering of the place.

“Volumetric video is a nice way to capture people, and you can place the captures into a photo-scanned environment if you want. What’s cool is that you can take those assets and put them into an augmented reality sphere, or a VR sphere,” Heller says.

The panel agrees that AR is currently perceived to be the tech that is most likely to take off, while VR – which has not been adopted by enough consumers to make it a platform for mass entertainment – is practically dead in the television and content world.

Web AR is causing excitement – Google have developed an API for their Chrome browser that allows users to render virtual objects in the real world.

“Web AR is the next big thing,” says Amber Allen, chief executive of Double A Labs, an experiential marketing company. “The idea is that Beyoncé can tweet a link, and people can click it, and then she’s dancing in your room. I think we are almost there, fingers crossed.”

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Allen’s Double A has produced an interactive mobile game for Friends, as well as making the established Jack Ryan franchise a hit with the younger Comic Con crowd.

“The idea is to engage viewers on social platforms and make entertainment that allows the viewer do more than just watch a live stream. The live audience needs to interact with what’s going on. Last year we created an obstacle course for Jack Ryan for Comic Com, which we did on Twitch. Doing things interactively can bring back an old brand and make it seem new again for kids.”

Television news will probably not be changing much in the future, but it will be expanding further on to new platforms, and that will change the way that the news is told, said panellists on the original content leaders round table.

“The news network that the world needs today can connect social and streaming,” says Jean Ellen Cowgill, general manager, TicToc by Bloomberg.

The company began social media publishing on Twitter, “which is essentially today’s breaking news channel”, then expanded on to other social media platforms. Streaming will begin next year.

Twitter stories demand a slightly different format to traditional news media, Cowgill says: “Stories are in short form on Twitter, so we need to give away the ending. If the drama of a news clip happens 10 seconds in, then it is way too late. You need to get that key moment in first.”

Cowgill also talks about how Bloomberg is presenting news on Instagram, noting its coverage of the Hong Kong protests. “We have been doing a lot on the Hong Kong protests, as we have a team there.

“We needed to work out how to have an authentic voice there which didn’t feel we were avoiding what was happening. So a lot of our stories on Instagram have been profiling different protesters … it gives you this glimpse of humanity, and it takes us closer to a really serious event.

“We have to find our way into the story in a way that feels right in the Instagram universe, and also feels right for the story. That is a lot of work.”