When the NFL began plans more than four years ago to move its headquarters from Culver City, California, to a new facility a few miles away in Inglewood, Los Angeles it had a vision to create one of the world's most state-of-the-art, IP-based broadcast production facilities. Opening just before the…
Amazon Studios has opened a new virtual production stage and formed an Amazon Studios Virtual Production (ASVP) department. The stage combines two former stages to accommodate an LED wall that is 25 metres in diameter and eight metres tall. The first feature film to shoot on the new Stage 15…
The market for virtual production technology is set to grow 20% year on year to $2.2 billion in 2023, up from $1.8 billion in 2022, according to consultancy Deloitte Global. But there is a shortage of qualified virtual production talent and the industry landscape of virtual production studios is currently…
Rose Bruford College has partnered with White Light (WL) on a new extended reality (XR) stage, as part of a £1.9 million capital investment in infrastructure. Funded by a capital grant from the Office for Students – England’s higher education independent regulator – the investment has also enabled a significant…
Content provider PLAZAMEDIA has chosen a 33m x 3.5m curved U-shaped Alfalite LED wall for its new hybrid studio in Ismaning near Munich in Germany. The new XR LED studio has been built in good time for viewers at home and in the studio tuning in to catch all the…
BBC Studios has worked with GlobalM’s cloud-based SRT distribution platform to stream Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's funeral. Using the GlobalM SRT distribution network, BBC Studios delivered live feeds to its international rights holders, providing global audiences with 12 hours' uninterrupted coverage of the event. BBC Studios required a cloud-based…
The revolution in virtual production has entered a new phase as even commercials for display technology are now being shot in virtual studios using LED backdrops. Only this week it emerged that a campaign video for Samsung's latest Ark gaming monitor, featuring esports presenter Iain Chambers, has been produced at…
An Australian film production has replicated a real-time ray tracing system, using ultra short throw projectors and ambient light rejecting screens. Ray tracing improves VFX realism by copying the way light reflects and refracts in the real world. The first-of-a-kind system was used by filmmaker Matt Drummond in the Don't…
ROE Visual has shipped more than 100,000 of the Black Pearl 2 series. The sales figures cover BP2 and BP2V2 LED panels. The BP2V2 panels have been featured in production studios globally, and has been seen in productions such as Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, KIMI, MJ: The Musical, ABBA Voyage…
A LianTronics fine-pitch LED wall measuring more than 430 sq m – the 'biggest LED display in a TV studio in Qatar' – has been installed in the new HQ of Alaraby TV. The giant curved LED video wall embeds behind a half-annulus-shaped studio, with 23 sets of smaller rectangular…
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