As this is being written, hot on the heels of MSG Sphere’s immersive cameras’ trip to the ISS, a specially trained new astronaut, Aardman’s Shaun the Sheep, is also heading into space. Together with an ESA European Service Module, he is the only passenger onboard the first flight of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which is being […]
The new Beta release of NVIDIA Omniverse includes a host of updates to make it faster, more accessible and more flexible for developers, creators and users of all abilities. Omniverse can now ingest large, complex scenes from multiple third-party applications, and take more advantage of real-time rendering, path tracing, and physics simulation. Omniverse Nucleus, the central database […]
Madison Square Garden Entertainment is the company behind the MSG Spheres being constructed at the Venetian in Las Vegas and Stratford in East London, The technical demands of these huge new immersive venues are so great that new camera, lens and content creation technology is being developed. The company has announced that new immersive cameras […]
TIME magazine has included NVIDIA’s much lauded Instant NeRF on its list of Best Inventions of 2022. NeRFs (Neural Radiance Fields) are neural networks that take the camera pose from a set of 2D images and use spatial location and volumetric rendering to conjure a 3D representation of the scene in seconds. Prior to Instant NeRF, achieving this […]
If it receives planning permission, as well as on site rehearsal spaces, post production facilities and animation studios, 500,000 sq ft Shipyard Studios in Sunderland will include the largest covered water studio in the world, The proposal for the studios has been submitted by the owners of the former Pallion shipyard which was closed in […]
This 36-second ICVFX virtual production test conducted at Drexel University and led by Catalyst’s Ian Fursa and Steve Chandler and Drexel’s own Nick Jushchyshyn with the support of Colorspace Labs and Lightbulb Rentals and using VP Toolkit shows how rear-projection can replace an expensive LED stage and still produce industry-standard level results for those shooting […]