“Strange Beasts” — a five-minute short science fiction movie produced by Magali Barbe, is in the form of an augmented-reality-game promo. Victor Weber, founder of Strange Beasts, says the game “allows players to create, customize, and grow your very own creature.”

Weber explains that this is made possible by “nanoretinal technology” that “superimposes computer-graphics-composed imagery over real world objects by projecting a digital light field directly into your eye.” The imagery is reminiscent of Magic Leap promos — but using surgically implanted “supervision” displays.

The movie’s surprise ending raises disturbing questions about where augmented-reality may one day take us.