All Augmented Reality articles
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Industry TrendsBehind the Scenes: Evil Genius 2 cinematic trailer
The cinematic trailer for Rebellion Games’ Evil Genius 2 has all the humour and production values of a Disney Pixar movie, but the way it was created couldn’t be further from the traditional studio workflow. Michael Burns goes behind the scenes to find out how world domination was planned and ...
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Industry Trends
Behind the Scenes: A Discovery of Witches
The second season of Sky’s A Discovery of Witches saw the protagonists escape to an Elizabethan London. Axis Studios explains how it leveraged cloud rendering to create a realistic 16th Century London
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Industry Trends
BT Sport scores new tech to boost matchday experience
BT Sport has launched several new functions to boost its viewer experience. James Pearce speaks to COO Jamie Hindhaugh about the importance of partnerships and how technology can innovate live sports.
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Industry Trends
How We Built It: Centroid’s performance capture facility
A new performance capture facility in the heart of Soho means that visual storytellers will be able to combine visual effects and virtual production with world class video and audio post production.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Ted Schilowitz, Paramount Pictures
Paramount’s resident futurist talks AR and VR, branching narratives, volumetric video and how the pandemic has helped accelerate new ways of working.
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Industry Trends
London Film Festival expands into a virtual world
With coronavirus devastating the international events industry, festivals such as London Film Festival and Venice have had to develop new ways to preview upcoming films and TV shows. But this has also opened the door to exciting new solutions, such as VR broadcast platforms.
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Industry Trends
Nvidia: The metaverse is coming
Jensen Huang, CEO of red-hot computer processing developer Nvidia says the world is entering the age of AI.
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Video
IBC2020 Technical Papers: Creating volumetric content
Technical Papers: Watch presentations by the authors and read their technical papers on creating volumetric content.
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Video
IBC2020 Technical Papers: Enhanced viewing via UHDTV & AR, plus MPEG enablers for richer XR
Technical Papers: Watch a presentation by the authors and read their technical papers on synchronised UHDTV AR for enhanced viewing and MPEG media enablers for richer XR experiences.
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News
IBC Technical Papers highlight industry innovation
Technical Papers on subjects ranging from drones to sustainability are available to read at IBC365, including video presentations by some of the authors.
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Technical Papers
TOWARD TELE-EXPERIENCE: ENHANCED VIEWING EXPERIENCE BY SYNCHRONIZED UHDTV AND FREE-VIEWPOINT AR
In this paper, NHK explores an object-based real-time streaming system of dynamic three-dimensional objects for AR played on mobile devices.
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Industry Trends
How We Built It: The Famous Group thrills Baltimore Ravens fans with mixed reality mascot
Creative agency The Famous Group caused an AR sensation when it sent a giant-sized raven swooping around a stadium during an American football game. Michael Burns looks at how it worked with The Future Group and its cross-reality content production tool Pixotope to bring the mascot to life.
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News
Teletubbies brought to life via AR
Classic kids TV characters from Teletubbies, In the Night Garden and Boy Dragon are to be brought to life through augmented reality.
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Industry Trends
IBC2020 Accelerators: New & immersive real-time workflows for CG animation production
A new IBC Accelerator is looking at ways of leveraging XR tools and real-time content engines to change workflows for the production of animation. Ian Volans investigates.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Gaël Seydoux, InterDigital
Could immersive media technologies such as volumetric video, photogrammetry and 3D experiences be the future for the media and entertainment industry? Alana Foster speaks with InterDigital’s Gaël Seydoux.
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News
Apple buys broadcast VR startup NextVR
Tech giant Apple has acquired virtual reality broadcast startup NextVR for an undisclosed fee.
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Industry Trends
Is XR the answer to delivering the new normal?
Are new age technologies the key to boosting economies and bolstering broadcasting for the future post lockdown? IBC365 looks at the current landscape with vendor announcements and shifts in technology adoption.
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Industry Trends
Telescope Animation looks to make an Unreal splash
German studio Telescope animation is taking a different approach to animation, using Unreal Engine to create a transmedia portfolio spanning AR/VR, games and interactive storybooks for its new film The Last Whale Singer. Michael Burns investigates.
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Industry Trends
Audio capture: Incremental changes rather than quantum leaps
Audio capture for live event coverage has not changed profoundly in recent years, but increasing levels of immersive production are leading to more ambitious microphone deployments, writes David Davies.
