Sony Introduces Ocellus
The company’s first camera-tracking solution is camera agnostic and can be used with both cinema and broadcast cameras.
Sony Electronics has announced Ocellus, a solution designed to simplify and facilitate augmented-reality and virtual-production applications in broadcast and cinema by providing marker-free camera tracking through multiple sensors.
Ocellus is camera agnostic and can be used with both cinema and broadcast cameras. It sends the camera position and orientation data while the camera is shooting. The system comprises a sensor unit, a processing box and three lens encoders; it can be used with Sony Cinema Line cameras, system cameras and non-Sony cameras.
Using five image sensors and Sony’s Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping technology, the system creates a reference map, enabling stable, marker-free tracking indoors and outdoors. When using Sony cameras, metadata regarding focus, iris and zoom values from the camera and lens can be obtained via the camera’s SDI output and transmitted in real time to external devices via Ethernet cable. If the lens does not support metadata acquisition through the camera, lens encoders can be affixed to the camera to obtain this metadata. The system also supports recording tracking data, camera/lens metadata, timecode and file name.
Sony will showcase Ocellus at the NAB Show (Booth N439) in Las Vegas next month.
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