After three years of development, the disguise team have brought their extended reality platform to the public. Could this replace green screens for good? Even before this launch, disguise’s tech was used on some pretty cool projects, including Solo: A Star Wars Story and Katy Perry’s performance in the American Idol. Now, version r18 has brought the company’s xR platform to the public for the first time – just one month after announcing an investment from The Carlyle Group and Epic Games. r18 integrates with leading LED, real-time content, and camera tracking technologies to blur the boundaries between production and post. This means everyone on set can experience a real-time version of the final shot (without a green screen in sight), and DPs get to capture it all directly in-camera. Behind the scenes of Katy Perry’s American Idol concert – from disguise’s website here. The way this works is that xR ensures game engine-driven content is accurately distributed across multiple physical LED walls on set, even if they’re at different angles, so that dynamic backdrops always look natural even with moving camera perspectives. Then, if the camera shot is wider than the physical LED volume, disguise’s tech allows you to build perfectly matched digital set extensions too. According to today’s announcement on disguise’s website, features in r18 include: A cluster rendering system developed together with Epic Games (you can learn more about this here)DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) support from NVIDIAIn-built ACES color managementDirectX12 integrationAugmented Reality (AR) plate mergeAccelerated spatial and...
Published By: CineD - Friday, 16 April, 2021