In November, the virtual reality variety show Memoon Player produced by iQIYI was officially launched in China. In this innovative show, the dedicated performance of the players and the immersive virtual reality scenes made a real impression on the audience when it aired its first episode on December 9th. Show participants put on their motion capture suits and entered their avatars into a virtual landscape, where the avatars interacted, competed in games, and even performed on a virtual stage.
Memoon Player, a show that creatively brings music into the metaverse space, allows players to compete in teams, according to the rules of the show, in real and virtual interaction, and complete music-related games. During the games, through the LED displays in various scenarios, players can obtain guidance, remotely interact with online audiences, and use motion capture to generate virtual images, thus unfolding a series of interesting and musical plots.
For this virtual production project, INFiLED cooperated with Shenzhen Wanyouyingli Technology Co., Ltd. and jointly provided all LED display equipment. The content displayed by these specialized displays was bright in color and excellent in picture quality, which met the requirements of the production team.
Brilliant Screens Adorn the Main Lobby
In the spaceship-like main lobby, which was used to gather players and provide tasks, INFiLED built a massive 32m x 8m backdrop screen. The screen was customized using its EZ series, with a curved surface and a short T shape, that was creative and futuristic in look. It featured a high-resolution pixel pitch of 2.6mm, and a brightness of 1,000nits, presenting a strong visual appeal.
Just opposite the T-shaped screen, there was also an AR series curved screen with a smooth arc and a resolution of 12,672 x 1,152. This screen provided the creative content designed by the production team, and its vibrant, accurate color expression brought life to the large and unique main lobby.
High-Quality Screens Power Competition
For the main competition venue, to create a metaverse-style scene, the production team built a small XR virtual recording platform with multiple screens. It included three GXII series video walls, with a 3,840Hz high refresh rate and 160˚ viewing angles, making it easy for the camera crew to capture the on-wall content from different directions; also included was the DFII series LED floor. With a maximum load-bearing capacity of 2,500kg/㎡ and an anti-glare surface, it was an ideal floor for carrying out the various competitions.
Since Memoon Player adopted a team competition system, three cabins were set up on the recording site for three teams to discuss their tactics. Each cabin was equipped with an information screen for conveying the rules of the competition to the players. The screens of the No. 1 and No. 2 cabins were made of DB series, with 16-bit greyscale and a high contrast ratio of 5,000:1; while the No. 3 cabin used the EZ series with the same specifications as the background screen of the main lobby. All of these screens provided high image clarity and well-rendered details.
Superior Screens Support Virtual Production
The theme of Memoon Player was to create a new world of music in the metaverse, so motion capture technology was widely used in the show to record the players’ body movements and generate their corresponding virtual characters; through post-production, these characters were placed into imaginative rendered scenes, presenting their performance in virtual reality.
INFiLED equipped screens for all the motion capture rooms in the show. These screens used DB series, with vibrant colors and good saturation, delivering excellent visual feedback for virtual production. Moreover, there were EZ series screens in the aisle outside the rooms, which appropriately complemented the metaverse environment created by the production crew.
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