Watch: Merging Realities Shows Promise In New Short Film

When Uzair Merchant, producer and founder of bKREATIV Productions and The Kreativ Lab was approached by a colleague at Bold Film to create the opening film for the World Police Summit 2024, he knew he had to create something special. Tasked with creating a new kind of experience for the summit that not only housed the Police 5.0 vision but fused together technology and realism along with a live-action on-stage component that focused on the future of policing, he immediately got to work.

The result? The first immersive experience of its kind.

Titled, Merging Realties, the fully immersive film was created using mesh technology and turned into a holographic experience fusing together holograms, traditional cinema and live onstage action. The screen was built to be one of the largest seamless mesh holographic screens to ever exist, standing at 22m long and 4m high.

With the slogan of the Dubai Police in mind, “Welcome to Policing 5.0,” the film portrays a sci-fi inspired world of Dubai, the technological advances and how the police are always one step ahead, hinting to what the future of policing would be. It showcases the universe all the way back to a single atom, showcasing how we are all connected in a Quantum Realm, the atoms, charges, and electrons pulsating through all of us, the larger picture that we are all one.

The event attended by Sheikh Ahmed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, opened by H.E Abdualla Al Marri, Commander of the Dubai police; the event had policing forces from over 65 countries with leaders of states and policing forces to make it a one-of-a-kind overall experience.

You can view the full Merging Realities film here.