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 […]
Machine learning is being used to drive wider adoption and professional development Vid2Vid Cameo – which is available through a demo on the NVIDIA AI Playground – can be used to capture facial movements and expressions from video shot on any type of camera, including smartphones, and applied in real time to animate an avatar, character […]
Steve Jarratt’s 23 August IBC 365 post begins with a really good summation of what virtual production is, for the uninitiated. ” …the combination of physical and digital assets in a real-time filmmaking environment. It ranges from motion capture stages with real-time feedback of digital doubles and virtual worlds, to the latest advances in LED […]
In ‘Bullet Train’, Brad Pitt’s new screen hero Ladybug is a hired assassin with a reverse midas touch. Seemingly straightforward contracts have a tendency to, ahem, hit the buffers and you don’t have to be one of his targets to get hurt during an operation. It’s a quirky concept, and ‘Bullet Train’ makes the most […]
A pair of bioengineers and an academic at UCLA have devised a new 3D scanning camera system that is significantly more advanced than the current state-of-the-art and can figure out the size and shape of objects hidden round corners or behind other objects. The technology could find its initial home in autonomous vehicles and medical […]
An MIT project supported by Sony has demonstrated that photorealistic 3D colour holograms can now be generated quickly, even on a smartphone. Generating the vast amounts of data required to enable stable holography has already been considered a significant 3D visualisation challenge, so this could represent a big breakthrough. Obvious applications include VR and AR […]