Island of virtual creativity

Shanghai-based Gush Multimedia Arts intends to use the Isle of Man as a base to export its virtual cinema technology to Europe.

The company's 3-D live action film technology was used in the private entertainment sector for the first time at the Milan Expo 2015.

The company now wants to launch it across Europe, using the self-governing offshore United Kingdon tax haven as a filming base. The technology allows real actors and virtual actors to appear together in a production, so the audience has the same experience as watching a live performance. Each production only requires one or two real actors because the rest of the cast, and the setting and props, are virtual.