Virtual production and real-time rendering are changing the way commercials and promos are made. In a new demo film for Volvo’s EV arm, a Polestar 2 is driven in the pre-dawn light of an urban setting, across a bridge and out into a wintry countryside. The camera captures the light, the reflections, the angles and […]
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Pixotope XR Edition for LED stages to debut at IBC 2022
A new XR Edition of Pixotope’s virtual production system will make its trade show debut in Hall 7 (7.D08) at IBC 2022 in Amsterdam which begins on Friday 9 September. This new version has been developed to meet the rise in demand for higher performance, lower latency, easier setup and simplified operation when shooting on […]
LFF Expanded brings immersive media to the 2022 London Film Festival
The American Express-sponsored BFI London Film Festival has announced the lineup for the third LFF Expanded, the festival’s immersive art and extended realities strand, which runs from 5 to 16 October. This year’s programme will take place across multiple venues on the South Bank and include interactive virtual reality, screen-based installations, augmented reality, mixed reality, immersive audio experience […]
For mobile virtual production, step inside the Magicbox
Earlier in August, in Pasadena, CA, collaborators Brian T. Nowac and Sam Nicholson launched Brian’s prototype Magicbox “mobile virtual Superstudio” at Sam’s Stargate Studios. Calling Magicbox a high-tech origami that unfolds in a parking lot, Sam says it is “the only virtual production system that I have worked with that can set up, shoot, and […]
Having a ball with NVIDIA’s Instant NeRF
NVIDIA Instant NeRF (Neural Radiance Field), the company’s inverse rendering tool that turns a set of static images into a realistic 3D scene, has won the Best Paper award at SIGGRAPH 2022 which took place in Vancouver earlier this month. One of the best uses of Instant NeRF seen so far comes from San Francisco-based […]
SMPTE RIS OSVP: much more than a Countdown conundrum
Using $150,000 it received from Epic Games as a Mega Grant, SMPTE has been able to build on the Rapid Industry Solutions On-Set Virtual Production (RIS OSVP) initiative it launched in July 2021 As ever with this august industry body, the mission is to begin standardising OSVP technologies and processes following a period of early […]