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what looks like a real live 3D person but actually they’re just not there. So we volume-captured a golfer who is to talk with a real person but on a virtual golf course. “The presenter would wonder what kind of shot you could make approaching the green for instance,” explains Nic, “then this virtual, volume-captured golfer appears and talks you through a shot. Our technology with its depth abilities lets us walk around this virtual golfer and we can replay his swing and interact with it. “Volume capture is not quite there yet, it’s not bad but just needs to be higher resolution. There are some fundamental flaws that need ironing out. But it’s early days and volume capture is really interesting. At the moment it’s not a live event, it’s not like live motion capture.” In our next issue we will be reporting on new capture techniques including NCAM’s new products and the latest from the world of virtual sets.
music video bed if you like. You can decide afterwards how you’re going to view that content. You can move the camera around as you wish and if it’s a VR project you can decide where to stand as a viewer. “The creatives that we’re talking to are very excited about the fact that they can be quite creative after the fact. For example with the ability to pause a scene on your mobile phone screen with your finger and to pan around as it’s paused, if you have a basketball player jumping in the air you can stop that, move around, and then watch him finish his shot.” A new customer for Dimension is NCAM, which is a growing company in the AR space for broadcasting and movies. They booked Dimension to produce a photorealistic golfer to be incorporated into a production for a broadcaster. Nic Hatch from NCAM explains the process: “We want to have photorealistic human beings that we can put through our other technologies, so you can walk around
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