ALIVE – Live Action Lightfields for Immersive Virtual Reality Experiences

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ALIVE is an eighteen-month applied research project that aims to make it possible to create immersive VirtualReality experiences that use live action video, by using lightfield capture technology to give a much morerealistic appearance and sense of immersion than is currently possible. The project will result in new algorithmsand methods, incorporated in advanced software prototypes and demonstrated in a short experimentalproduction. We will develop new ways of accurately tracking moving multi-camera lightfield rigs; representing,editing, post-producing and streaming immersive light-fields; and rendering the results as free-viewpoint videowith true parallax to support viewer head movement, in real time, to consumer headsets.The project consortium is made up of a leading medium-sized visual effects software developer (The Foundry),an SME creative production company specialising in VR experiences (Figment Productions) and a leadingresearch centre specialising in multi-view data capture and processing (University of Surrey).