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 […]
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 […]
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 […]