UAL, Sony Team on Virtual-Production Research Stage
The stage will play a key role in advancing transdisciplinary, practice-led research in virtual production and XR textiles and dress.
University of the Arts London and Sony have partnered on a virtual-production research stage that is housed within the Fashion Textiles and Technology Institute at UAL’s new East Bank campus in London.
This state-of-the-art facility features a Crystal LED wall powered by Brompton Technology’s LED processing. The stage will play a key role in advancing transdisciplinary, practice-led research in virtual production and XR textiles and dress.
The studio is equipped with a 64’x13’ horseshoe-shaped Sony Crystal LED display made up of 312 Sony Verona panels in two pixel pitches. The 28’-wide middle section comprises Verona 1.5mm-pixel-pitch panels flanked by 36’ of the 2.3mm-pixel-pitch panels, for a total resolution of 22,557,760 pixels. Both screens integrate with Brompton Technology Tessera LED processors, with the primary screen running on four 4K Tessera SX40 processors and the secondary powered by two additional SX40s. The entire setup is managed by 12 Tessera 10G data-distribution units.
The volume is further enhanced by Vicon tracking systems, Lux Machina Arca media servers and Arri Orbiter and SkyPanel lighting.
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