By JULIAN CRESSWELL in News, Sponsored story June 21, 2022 0

The immersive real-time nature of extended reality (xR) is reinventing the future of production. This is driving demand for universities to train their students in new xR workflows, allowing them to use the latest and greatest technology.

xR, or virtual production, is when a combination of technologies lets filmmakers replace green or blue screens with walls made up of LED panels. With the help of a graphics engine and camera tracking, these LED walls display immersive environments and visual effects in-camera and in real-time. Directors and DPs can then see the visual effects in the moment and make better creative decisions while filming.

disguise, a company pushing the boundaries in xR, integrates graphics engines, LED technology and camera tracking into a single workflow. disguise’s xR solution has powered over 400 immersive real-time productions for music artists such as Katy Perry and Billie Eilish, film and episodic TV productions for Netflix and Amazon Prime, corporate presentations for Siemens and Verizon, and live broadcast programmes from Eurosport, MTV and ITV.

To harness the possibilities of this exciting future, Savannah College of Arts and Design (SCAD) is preparing their students by installing a bleeding edge xR stage integrated with the disguise xR workflow.

SCAD students train for an xR future In their aim to cement their position as a leading educator in arts and entertainment, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) has built a full-scale xR stage as part of its 11-acre expansion project of the university’s Savannah Film Studios. A second xR stage will open at SCAD’s Atlanta location this fall.

For a project of this scale, SCAD worked with creative studio, MEPTIK to design the backend and systems, implement the workflow for the stage and go online before the fall semester of 2021. With its great track-record of delivering xR system design, and with a team largely comprised of former SCAD alumni, including its co-founder Sarah Linebaugh, MEPTIK was the perfect partner for SCAD’s workflow needs. The stage’s design is centered around an LED video wall display that was designed and built by DeNyse Companies, measuring approximately 40 x 20 x 17 feet with 1.6mm and 1.9mm pixel pitch panels. “Being a SCAD-founded, SCAD-driven company, it’s exciting to invest the skills we’ve learned in xR to ignite generations of students to come,” explained MEPTIK’s other co-founder, Nick Rivero.

The future of xR starts now In what has been labelled a “true game-changer” for SCAD, the new xR stage, along with other developments in SCAD’S Savannah Film Studios expansion, will likely further establish the college as a leading digital entertainment educator, and will no doubt set the benchmark for arts and entertainment education providers worldwide. The immersive real-time content for the stage is powered by four disguise vx 4 media servers and two rx II real-time render nodes, delivering graphics from Unreal Engine.

This development will ensure that SCAD alumni will be graduating with a well-sought after knowledge of the disguise xR workflow as they enter into the workforce. Primed to become the industry standard in the field, disguise xR will be one of the major technologies used to usher in the new era of filmmaking.

Contacts disguise Tel: +44 (0) 20 7234 9840 Email: sales@disguise.one Web: https://web.disguise.one/xrdemo

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