BBC Election 2015
- Location:
- Elstree, United Kingdom
- Affiliation:
- BBC
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Set used for BBC’s coverage of the 2015 UK General Election in May 2015.
BBC Studios and Post Production’s Studio D was been segmented into different areas to accommodate each presenter’s remit of coverage, including a virtual reality area provided by Vizrt.
Camera tracking systems, comprising of Mo-Sys StarTracker, encoder based moviebird crane and a Mo-Sys SpaceTracker, mounted to a wireless Steadicam, provides camera movement data for the graphics system. These target-based systems tracks the camera’s movements across the entire studio space, and informs the graphic engine of the camera position and orientation, which allows both augmented reality and virtual reality graphics to be accurately placed onto the camera’s visual feed. This enables Vine to move realistically round a green screen environment and become immersed in up-to-date graphics. The tracking systems allows this to happen accurately and without affecting the position of the virtual graphics.
The multi-camera set-up comprises 16 cameras, seven of which are virtual reality capable and five augmented reality capable.