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Realtime Lab

Realtime Lab Full Specification

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Overview

The Realtime Lab is a space where creativity and cutting-edge technology come together. Offering access to state-of-the-art facilities, along with funding and expertise for research & development, the lab helps creative and technology  companies to explore the potential of advances media production and real-time technologies. Get in touch to discuss how you can work with us to experiment, collaborate and bring bold ideas to life.

Key studio features (Dundee)
  • Fully commercial‑capable virtual production studio suitable for medium‑sized productions such as TV, music videos and advertising shoots
  • 15 × 3 metre AOTO LED screen (1.5mm pixel pitch)
  • Movable light panels and ROE 3.6 × 3.6 metre LED roof providing full 360‑degree lighting for virtual production
  • Motion capture system: A VICON Vero 12 Camera cinematic mocap system offering a usable 6*6m volume for professional grade motion capture results for 2 Simultaneous actors with Props. 
Technical infrastructure
  • Powered by Brompton SX40 LED processors
  • BT 5G private network
  • Rendering supported by three custom‑built render machines, each running RTX A6000 GPUs (Ada Lovelace generation)
  • All rendering and Brompton systems run Video over IP (SMPTE 2110) for real‑time virtual production
  • Control system operated from a dedicated machine with an Nvidia RTX 4090
  • Networking via Nvidia Mellanox switch and Bluefield‑2 network cards
  • Brainstorm DXD8 grandmaster clock for genlock and sync
Key studio features (Edinburgh)

Motion Capture system

A VICON Vero 12 Camera mocap system offering a usable 6*6 m volume for professional grade motion capture results for 2 Simultaneous actors with Props. Vicon system also provides Camera Tracking for Virtual Production

Virtual Production system

LED screen is a 5*3 Metre AOTO  (1.5mm pixel pitch) screen which is the latest in Virtual Production technology and one of the first LED products dedicated to Virtual Production in the world (New 2024)

  • Led Processing:  Powered by a  single Brompton Tessara SX40
  • Rendering: Dedicated single machine using Nvidia RTX 4090 graphics processing. 
  • Control:  Dedicated single machine using Nvidia RTX 4090 graphics processing.

The simple Setup allows real-time virtual production on the single screen for testing / research and experimentation purposes using off the shelf hardware configurations

Cameras: Realtime tracking and shooting using Panasonic BGH-1 camera which can be genlocked to the screen 

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