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Author: Maria Pacheco (Lightbox) As an aspiring screenwriter and filmmaker myself, having the opportunity to conceive a new narrative experience with the Immersia TV tools was nothing short of exciting, from an artistic standpoint. Being a fast paced, highly creative production house, this is the sort of project that excites us at Lightbox. In fact, the […]
Immersia TV likes opera much more than expected. Next February 10th we will participate in a new recording for “Roméo et Juliette” in 360, and some weeks ago PSNC had the opportunity to capture immersive content of “The Baltic Legend” opera by Feliks Nowowiejski. This was joint collaboration between Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poznań Opera House […]
Cyclocross is a very popular sport in Belgium, and SOUDAL Cyclocross Leuven is one of the main events taking place yearly. The ImmersiaTV team wanted to take the emotion wherever you are thanks to omnidirectional, immersive content, so last January 7th we placed 360 video cameras around the field and shot the race. Users of the content […]
Industrial and academic experts predict that immersive applications will dominate the technology markets by 2020 [1]. This expectation comes from the significant growth of interest that was observed during the previous years in the development of consumer and professional devices for acquisition (i.e., multi-lens, multi-camera, depth sensors) and rendering (i.e., mobile phones of high processing […]
The ubiquity of mobile phones, and particularly the fact that the majority of European TV consumers use them occasionally while watching TV, has triggered, in recent years, the development of companion screen apps, i.e., apps for mobile phones or tablets which are designed to complement the main TV experience. When writing the ImmersiaTV project, our […]
Have you ever had a video call where sound and image were not really fitting each other? Or maybe you tried to watch a movie, but the subtitles were slightly delayed? Then you know how important synchronization is. Even the smallest difference can spoil a perfect experience. In ImmersiaTV we give you additional video streams […]
Despite the name, television is not all about vision. Often underestimated part of transmission, but highly important for appreciation of the content quality, is sound. In some TV formats it is absolutely essential. Does immersive video require special sound? One may argue about definitions, but in some way playing a sound is always an […]