Vancouver’s Departure Lounge and Los Angeles-based volumetric capture pioneers, Metastage, announced today that they have been selected by Microsoft as the exclusive licensee for its volumetric capture technology in Western Canada.
Launching in Spring 2022, Metastage Canada will be the first 4D holographic capture facility in the region to bring humans into the metaverse and will be designated as the exclusive Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studio in Vancouver.
A carbon copy of the studio in Los Angeles, the Metastage will use 106 12-megapixel machine-vision cameras to capture a person’s dynamic movements and turn them into highly realistic digital images.
The technology enables studios to capture human models and convert them into digital forms for stories, games, and other experiences for mixed reality or traditional media.
“When we started Metastage in L.A., we didn’t know what it would be used for. There was a fundamental instinct that human performance would be essential for this new medium,” said Christina Heller, CEO of Metastage.
“While we didn’t know exactly what the killer use case was going to be when we launched, we knew there would be amazing opportunities and only good things would come from a mechanism for bringing real people into metaverse platforms. And obviously, we still believe in that wholeheartedly.”
Departure Lounge will operate Metastage Canada as part of a comprehensive set of technologies designed to transfer humans and objects into and out of the ‘Metaverse,’ helping to facilitate the next generation of immersive content.
James Hursthouse, CEO of Departure Lounge, said in an interview he was excited to work with Metastage. Hursthouse expects significant demand for the holographic capture stage in the region as the world moves forward into the era of the metaverse.
Hursthouse told VentureBeat that the project has been in the works for almost two years.
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