A pioneer in Virtual Studio Production.
House Of Sports
After 8 years, Play Sports decided to replace their studio
with a brand new 'House Of Sports'.
The aim was to create a state of the art broadcast studio,
built with future proof technology and enhanced
with a virtual set extension.
Throughout the entire process,
we have been their partner in crime
and have helped them to achieve this goal.
Check out this behind the scenes:
Always nice to watch. ;-)
Twinning = Winning
Time was not on our side.
There was only one short month
between the breakdown of the
old studio and the first live broadcast.
By creating a digital twin from
the blueprints of the set designer,
we could test everything 3 months
before the build of the actual studio.
This gave us a big advantage.
Building Process
1
May 22 2022
last live old studio
2
breakdown
old studio
3
creating digital
twin of the studio
4
making design
for the screens
5
creating
augmented graphics
6
making & matching
set extention
7
build up
new studio
8
August 6 2022
first live new studio
Virtual Production
There are a lot of statistics involved in a live sports broadcast.
We wanted to visualise them in a unique way.
We ended up combining on-screen graphics, ledwall visuals,
augmented and extended graphics in the same studio frames.
By doing this, we give the director tons of options
to tell the story in an immersive way.
On either side of the space is an alcove with an additional LED video wall set back from the stairs.
These areas can also be shot using a “walk and wander” floating “video on video” shots with AR layers added in, including the ability to insert stat boards that appear to be sitting on the stairs and player image on another level.
Realism is key
The 4th wall is a digital extention of the studio. By using unreal engine we created a photorealistic environment that hooked perfectly on the real set.
