Powerful special effects system
Do away with time-consuming calibration!
Computer generated sets
Move cameras freely without restrictions
Award winning pattern recognition technology
Cyberset O is a one stop technology house and goes with you into the future. The award winning CyberSet O is Orad's high-end virtual set solution using Silicon Graphics Onyx as the graphical platform. It's the only virtual set system allowing:
- Seamless integration of live actors and computer generated sets without cranes or robots and with no time-consuming calibration.
- Use of all types and any number of ordinary studio cameras and lenses.
- Totally free movement of all cameras in the studio space without restrictions, using standard dollies, Steadycams or even shoulder mounted cameras.
CyberSet O features Orad's proprietary pattern recognition technology that does away with the need for cumbersome studio installations, uncomfortable memory heads and clumsy robotic cameras but at the same time can intergrate cameras mounted on encoder-based tracking heads.
CyberSet O operates in a blue studio with Orad's patented spatially coded wall pattern comprised of two shades of blue. This pattern enables the real-time extraction of camera parameters from the captured video, using Orad's DVP-100 digital video processor capable of an amazing 30 Giga operations per second performance.
Since the camera position, orientation and lens zoom are extracted in real-time using the video itself, any type and model of studio lens can be used and there are no drift, warm-up, backlash or other mechanical problems associated with those virtual sets based on electro-mechanical sensors.
Key Features
Automatic pixel level depth key technology continuously places the actors in the right location in the virtual world, enabling close interaction between the actor and virtual objects. The actor can even stand inside a computer-generated object. The presenter is automatically tracked using infrared detection technology.
CyberActors - performance animated characters are integrated into the set using real-time motion capture. Amazingly, this is done, for the first time with a single Silicon Graphics Onyx rendering platform that serves both the virtual set and the virtual actor applications. CyberActor is a CyberSet O hardware/software optional module.
Integration of sensor based cameras into CyberSet O. Choose any mix of sensor/pattern recognition-based cameras, and even instantly change the mode of a given camera from pan/tilt/zoom/focus encoder's measurement mode to pattern recognition mode.
An innovative automatic feedback/marking system tells the presenter where all the virtual objects are at all times by projecting the fleeting footprints of virtual objects onto the studio's floor. The feedback/marking system is an add-on optional module to CyberSet O
Digital enhancement of the foreground video using Orad's DVP-100 digital video processor. This is how the image is sharpened without the usual associated chroma-key artifacts.
Virtual presence function enables seamless integration of a remote actor into the virtual set. A live video from a remote location is fed into the Onyx, the remote actor is keyed out and becomes a pseudo 3D object, doing away with the artificial video window. The virtual presence module is a free upgrade to CyberSet O users.
