FAME: Film Quality Augmented and Mixed Reality Experiences
Lead Participant:
THE FOUNDRY VISIONMONGERS LTD.
Abstract
FAME is an eighteen-month applied industrial research project to develop, demonstrate and evaluate
technologies and workflow for creating real-time interactive Augmented and Mixed Reality experiences on
consumer devices. The goal is to enable the experience of feature-film characters and properties interacting in
the user’s own environment, in real time. The project will advance the state of the art, building on other
ongoing UK and EU research by the partners, in lighting and environment capture and modelling using
consumer-level devices, highly automated procedural asset preparation, and real-time rendering of real-world
environments and movie assets to consumer devices. The results will enable the creation of a new kind of
photo-real experience and advance the creation of real-time assets for transmedia production.
The partnership brings together the UK’s leading VFX software developer, The Foundry, and the UK offshoot of
the world's leading creator of digital VFX, ILM. The Foundry will commercialise results as extensions to its
software tools.
technologies and workflow for creating real-time interactive Augmented and Mixed Reality experiences on
consumer devices. The goal is to enable the experience of feature-film characters and properties interacting in
the user’s own environment, in real time. The project will advance the state of the art, building on other
ongoing UK and EU research by the partners, in lighting and environment capture and modelling using
consumer-level devices, highly automated procedural asset preparation, and real-time rendering of real-world
environments and movie assets to consumer devices. The results will enable the creation of a new kind of
photo-real experience and advance the creation of real-time assets for transmedia production.
The partnership brings together the UK’s leading VFX software developer, The Foundry, and the UK offshoot of
the world's leading creator of digital VFX, ILM. The Foundry will commercialise results as extensions to its
software tools.
Lead Participant | Project Cost | Grant Offer |
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THE FOUNDRY VISIONMONGERS LTD. | £352,730 | £ 211,638 |
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Participant |
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INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC (UK) LTD | £386,598 | £ 193,299 |
People |
ORCID iD |
ABI BOWMAN (Project Manager) |