Bidirectional Guided Pathtracing for XR and VP — Overview Kartaverse 6’s big goal in 2024 is to redefine virtual production focused digital environment capture, post-processing, and on-set playback workflows. This is a technology built specifically for the new era of raytraced spatial computing and XR (Extended Reality). A new Kartaverse 6 “Valkyrie Engine” roadmap can be read here: Prior Art Domemaster3D Lens Shaders

This document is a top level summary of useful film & TV & VR production centric on-set DIT tools and asset management tools. My goal is to list open-source and commercial technology vendors that would be suitable for “boutique to medium-budget-level” XR/VP projects to consider adopting. What other tools might…

Overview This document is a summary of notable computer vision and ML research released, promoted, or discussed in December 2023. Starting this month, I hope to compile a monthly scrapbook, with one new overview document released each month. The goal is to document the evolution of these novel computational imaging and…

As part of my ongoing research into next-generation volumetric video workflows, I’ve been on the lookout for efficient relational database technology. This type of software needs to help the end-user manage a wide range of data types that come back from a VP (Virtual Production) project’s 2nd unit field capture…

Credits Special thanks go out to a voice over artist, Aishwarya Turekar. A conversation I had with her on LinkedIn Messenger about AI voice models was the inspiration for the following content. Overview An interesting emerging market in the audio-based machine learning sector is the growth of pre-trained AI voice models. It…

Lightfield Media Production Concepts Moving next-generation virtual production technology past OpenGL/DirectX rasterizer rendered graphics into 6DoF lightfield workflows is really the process of carrying on from where the “Lytro Immerge” lightfield camera system idea was “parked” many years. The lightfield filmmaking approach was for the most part an abstract experimental R&D level thing back…

6DoF VP (Virtual Production) Learning Resources for the Rest of Us Created By: Andrew Hazelden (andrew@andrewhazelden.com) Overview Hi. If you are interested in reading through the Kartaverse reference material about the creation of a next-generation XR/virtual production ecosystem, you can dive through these links below. Google Docs | Kartaverse 6 Project Onboarding Notes Kartaverse Roadmap Docs Google Docs | Kartaverse x LexhagVFX | Cloud to…