Recently, XR Studios has been leading the field of XR production with many pop star driven performance events like Katy Perry’s finale on American Idol, supporting MTV’s VMAs, and most recently, Billie Eillish’s livestream concert performance. As a video director, many years of concert touring inform my approach to camera and music performance. When contemplating […]

In this panel, Matt, Michael and Omer will discuss the ever-changing architecture of live production and the future we see it inevitably hurtling towards. In a world where broadcast facilities are beginning to replace their trusty SDI cables with Ethernet fibers, and businesses large and small “lift and shift” their workloads to the public cloud, […]

The NBA Bubble was a highly publicized experiment in returning to work during the pandemic. The most stringent quarantine and disease spread-limiting protocols changed every aspect of how we worked. From extreme remote management to whole-team quarantine content reviews, to proximity sensors to the emotional toll of returning to work after an enforced absence the […]

Join Ben for a session covering his approach to planning and executing a creative development plan for screens design.

xR currently has an apparent barrier of entry for those without large production budgets. In this session, we will explore and discuss options to bridge across that gap through the lens of recent anecdotal experience building an xR stage with no budget. For my thesis project in lighting design at the University of Cincinnati, CCM, […]

This is the challenge as I see it: how do creatives charged with coming up with unique and original ways to tell their stories do this if they don’t or can’t fully understand how these technologies work, let alone how to use them? Given the hierarchies that exist in brands and agencies they don’t. The […]