Microsoft’s HoloLens TV studio is upgrading one of gaming’s cheesiest tropes

We don’t know exactly what gaming is going to look like when it comes to Microsoft’s take on augmented reality, but it sure looks like the company could bring us the next generation of full-motion video (FMV) games with HoloLens.

The company has released a new video that shows how it captures and translates real people and objects into 3D characters that work in the HoloLens head-mounted display. To create these “holograms,” Microsoft points more than 100 cameras at actors and then runs that video data through a number of algorithms to build the three-dimensional models. It’s a complicated process, as you’ll see, but the end result creates actors that appear to exist in the world around you. And once you see it in action, it’s not a huge leap to imagine game developers using similar tech to build games around recording video like this — just like studios used to back in the early days of CD gaming with FMV.