ALIVE – Live Action Lightfields for Immersive Virtual Reality Experiences
Lead Participant:
THE FOUNDRY VISIONMONGERS LTD.
Abstract
ALIVE is an eighteen-month applied research project that aims to make it possible to create immersive Virtual
Reality experiences that use live action video, by using lightfield capture technology to give a much more
realistic appearance and sense of immersion than is currently possible. The project will result in new algorithms
and methods, incorporated in advanced software prototypes and demonstrated in a short experimental
production. We will develop new ways of accurately tracking moving multi-camera lightfield rigs; representing,
editing, post-producing and streaming immersive light-fields; and rendering the results as free-viewpoint video
with true parallax to support viewer head movement, in real time, to consumer headsets.
The project consortium is made up of a leading medium-sized visual effects software developer (The Foundry),
an SME creative production company specialising in VR experiences (Figment Productions) and a leading
research centre specialising in multi-view data capture and processing (University of Surrey).
Reality experiences that use live action video, by using lightfield capture technology to give a much more
realistic appearance and sense of immersion than is currently possible. The project will result in new algorithms
and methods, incorporated in advanced software prototypes and demonstrated in a short experimental
production. We will develop new ways of accurately tracking moving multi-camera lightfield rigs; representing,
editing, post-producing and streaming immersive light-fields; and rendering the results as free-viewpoint video
with true parallax to support viewer head movement, in real time, to consumer headsets.
The project consortium is made up of a leading medium-sized visual effects software developer (The Foundry),
an SME creative production company specialising in VR experiences (Figment Productions) and a leading
research centre specialising in multi-view data capture and processing (University of Surrey).
Lead Participant | Project Cost | Grant Offer |
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THE FOUNDRY VISIONMONGERS LTD. | £318,912 | £ 191,347 |
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Participant |
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THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY | £224,831 | £ 224,831 |
FIGMENT PRODUCTIONS LIMITED | £205,782 | £ 144,047 |
People |
ORCID iD |
ABI BOWMAN (Project Manager) |