Writing on Linkedin, offbeat.xyz co-founder Christopher Travers draws our attention to the facial capture work being done by VFX company Digital Domain in 2022. DD’s new demo video on YouTube below shows how a real-time facial capture using a webcam can be mapped onto an avatar to personalise the UX of the game you are playing, and […]
German neuroscientist Fabian Stelzer is in the process of making a 1970s-style science fiction film called ‘Salt’ using only generative AI art tools like DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney. Apart from his own, a tool called Murf produces all the voices you hear. With the aim of creating a “community cut”, Fabian has told […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]