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Exclusive Demos Held at Departure Lounge’s New Virtual Production Studio; Additional Demos with Dell (Booth# 527) and HP (Booth# 1011), Featuring Virtual Reality and UE Environments

Los Angeles – August 2, 2021 – During SIGGRAPH 2022, Arcturus, a pioneer in the field of volumetric video, is teaming up with some of the biggest names in virtual production to give showgoers a sneak peek at the future of digital environments for film and episodic. Utilizing volumetric video, virtual production studios can now populate entire digital scenes with three-dimensional, live action performances that can be edited to fit. Those characters will then appear on LED walls to ensure more realistic background characters, while also offering faster turnaround.

“The demand for virtual production is so high that it has begun to change the way filmmakers and content creators approach visual effects,” said Kamal Mistry, Arcturus CEO. “By adding volumetric video tools into that mix, it makes virtual production more realistic, while also giving creators new options for storytellers.”

Utilizing a game engine, virtual production creators can generate a full, photorealistic three-dimensional digital scene, depicting anything from a modern city street to an alien world. Rather than painstakingly designing digital background characters by hand or relying on 2D recordings, creators can instead capture a live-action performer in a volumetric stage to generate a 3D model of them, viewable from any angle. Artists and filmmakers can then upload that asset into Arcturus’ HoloSuite volumetric video toolset, where they can edit everything from its movement to head positioning.

With the volumetric character ready, it can be uploaded directly into a game engine and placed into a 3D virtual environment. From there, the asset can move through a set pattern, or stand in a group. The results are a living, populated scene with characters that avoid the pitfalls of CG character design, including the uncanny valley. The process is also significantly faster than with traditional CG character creation, which means less resources spent in both time and money. Volumetric characters are compatible with most game engines as well, including both UE4 and UE5.

Arcturus will have three separate presentations at SIGGRAPH, each showing a different side of volumetric video’s benefits to virtual production.

Along with the focus on volumetric video for virtual production, Arcturus is also planning a major announcement regarding the future of its industry-leading HoloSuite tools. All will be revealed at SIGGRAPH, and key Arcturus team members will be in attendance to answer questions.

To book an appointment to tour the new Departure Lounge virtual production studio and see an original scene – complete with volumetric humans – contact us now. Appointments to see the demos at both the HP and Dell booths are available as well.

Arcturus is the global leader in authoring, editing, and distributing volumetric videos. Founded in 2016 by innovators with deep backgrounds in storytelling and technology from Pixar, Dreamworks, Autodesk, Google and YouTube, Arcturus was ideally suited to create “HoloSuite,” a SAAS post-production platform, offering tools for editing and distributing volumetric video. HoloSuite consists of “HoloEdit,” an optimized pipeline for the editing and compression of volumetric video, and “HoloStream,” an adaptive streaming solution that streams polygons directly to the viewer.

Arcturus also helps others navigate the volumetric video ecosystem. Consulting work includes Hulu’s Emmy nominated “Light as a Feather” Magic Leap activation at VidCon, and Madonna’s volumetric holograms at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards, the first ever live broadcast of a volumetric performance and the winner of the Advanced Imaging Society Lumiere award.

For Business Inquires: Arcturus Piotr Uzarowicz piotr@arcturus.studio

For More Information, Press Only: Liaison Inc. Ryan Fleming +1-503-796-9822 ryan@liaisonpr.com

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