LogInEpic Games shared they are using Sony's VENICE Camera and Crystal LED B-series panel to develop their metaverse.
Epic Games' metaverse is unquestionably years away. However, the company together with Sony has already started establishing it. Not long ago, Sony provided the Epic Games Lab with VENICE Camera and Crystal LED B-series panel to support the company's virtual production needs.
VENICE is a full-frame digital cinema camera equipped with a 36x24mm image sensor that was designed particularly for high-end cinematography. "Resolution is, obviously, a big thing," Epic Games Chief Technology Officer Kim Liberi said, "The finer the pixels that you generate, the more realistic the imagery can be you put on the panels, the less challenges you're going to have".
Sony's latest Crystal LED B-series panels were purpose-built for Virtual Production environments in collaboration with Sony Pictures Entertainment. They can be used both in filmmaking and content creation as well as for games and other interactive experiences.
Outside of filmmaking, VENICE cameras are planned to be used in speeding up Epic Games' blueprints of the metaverse. Sony Pictures EVP and CTO of Technology Development Bill Baggelaar noted: "When we talk about the Metaverse and VR and a lot of the other products that start to come along, a lot of what we're doing in Virtual Production is completely applicable to that, but being used in a different way".
Kim Liberi also shared that he cherishes the idea of blending the real world and the virtual world with the Sony tech being able to contribute to fulfilling it. "There's tons and tons of room for innovation on simultaneous events, digitization of actors and characters, and cinematography all blending together to make a sort of metaverse of entertainment," said Liberi.
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