Changing the digital landscape by adding realism to everyday virtual interactions is the goal behind Intel® Software InnovatorsTim and Alex Porter’s latest project, Volumation. At the SIGGRAPH Garage this August, they’ll demonstrate how their automated pipeline captures, optimizes and performs post-production cleanup in one process, without the need for a green screen, increasing realism and immersion. SIGGRAPH 2018 is a five-day event showcasing the latest tech in computer graphics (CG), animation, virtual reality, games, digital art, mixed reality and emerging technologies.
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Technical Details
Tim and Alex’s product is a custom software solution that can be utilized on many platforms from AR/VR to web and film. The process has been vetted with webcams for a 180º bust with no green screen and optimized for mobile at 3.6Mb/second, which is considered mobile-ready.
Creating and testing continue on two rigs they’ve set up to validate the possible rig combinations and outputs. One system uses a Raspberry Pi* connected to an Intel® NUC, which controls the timing and has the user interface. It uses the standard v2.1 cameras and all the system’s interface through the Ethernet cables.
The other system is much more advanced and uses the UP Squared* Grove* IoT Development Kit with each board accepting 4-5 cameras for a total of 120 cameras, including some that will be 4k cameras. All of these systems transfer some of their data to the main server, which is a specialized desktop that includes Intel® Optane™ technology, NVMe storage drives, and multiple SSDs for drives. The networking side has two 10GbE Intel® Ethernet Network Adapters to allow for recording of the nearly 2TB per second video.
Collaboration and support has been provided by the Intel® Software Innovator program through both the Game Dev and IoT zones, Occipital and a partnership with the St. Elmo Soundstage.
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Source: Intel Software