At BSC Expo last week, Tim Kang from Quasar Science gave us a brief demonstration of a new firmware that can transform their Rainbow 2 and Double Rainbow LED tube lights into a real-time, image-based lighting system for a relatively low-budget virtual studio setup. Let’s take a closer look. During his recent trip to BSC Expo in London last week, my colleague Nino Leitner bumped into a peculiar, quite interesting demonstration at Quasar Science’s booth. Indeed, the lighting product manufacturer was displaying a new image-based lighting solution that can potentially help bringing down the cost of virtual video production. The core of this system is a firmware update for their LED tube lights that allows the fixtures to match the lighting conditions of a rear-projected image in real time. Tim Kang, Imaging and Color Engineer at Quasar Science, took some time to show us what this upcoming firmware will enable users to achieve. Quasar Science virtual studio at BSC Expo. Source: CineD Quasar Science Image-Based Lighting Solution Virtual studio productions are rapidly gaining ground and changing the way video content is produced. However, this innovative technology is often a privilege of high-end Hollywood movies and it’s usually out of reach for the average production. Yet, the simplicity of Quasar Science’s virtual studio at BSC 2022 makes me think that this situation is about to change. Indeed, their setup only consisted of a large background screen and a series of Quasar Science Rainbow 2 and Double Rainbow LED lights hanging from...
Published By: CineD - Wednesday, 13 April, 2022