GATEWAY TO INFINITY
VOLUMETRIC MOVIE
Immersive VR experience of a band in 6 DOF
to mark their 30th anniversary
VOLUMETRIC MOVIE
UFA LAB, together with UFA Technologies and the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute produced „Gateway to Infinity“ – the first volumetric movie in Germany. The experience gives a small glimpse into a world of possibilities – when did you last have the chance to actually move among space guards on another planet?
You are standing in front of an alien portal to another dimension. Behind you just a bottomless abyss. Your only companions are two space guards, arguing about their job and daily life. That’s the beginning of „Gateway to Infinity“, a Space VR Experience, with comedic parts, using the revolutionary HBR (Human Body Reconstruction) technology.
YEAR
2017
CONTENT
Augmented Reality
PAVING THE WAY
The “3D Human Body Reconstruction (3DHBR)” technology of the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI is being used for the first time as a joint test production with UFA/UFA LAB. The result is the fully immersive film and volumetric virtual reality experience “GATEWAY TO INFINITY”.
With this technology the basis for the Volucap was established.
BEHIND THE SCENES
Volucaps makes it possible to generate dynamic 3D models of people, which appear natural, going far beyond the conventional animation of virtual characters. In this test production, the 3D models were created based on real actors so that gestures, facial expressions and textures (skin, hair and fabric) could be recorded in detail. This made the lifelike reconstruction of facial expressions and moving clothes possible. The 3D models were subsequently integrated into a virtual scene. Viewers with virtual reality glasses can therefore observe these virtualised people at very close range and from various perspectives. This new contact with the characters and the story creates an entirely different level of immersion and virtual experience.
EXPERIENCE
This unique new medium portrays the action in a three-dimensional environment, allowing the viewer to move freely around the actors and observe them from any perspective, thus becoming a part of the movie scene. The key volumetric video technology required for such walk-in movies, developed by Fraunhofer HHI, is unique in Europe.
