The automobile brand Honda has recently performed a Twitch exhibition to show to the world the new 2022 Honda Civic Sedan. Also, the experience was enhanced by a live concert from a Grammy and Academy Award winning artist in the 20th Anniversary Honda Civic Tour. The event was an extended reality (xR) experience powered by disguise xR.

Virtual production experts Sixdegrees and All of it Now (AOIN) worked for several months with content creators at Immanent to create the artist’s live transitions into three realistic virtual environments: a city that transforms into a jungle, a red-rocks cave interior and a mountain top. Also, they created a virtual model of the Honda Civic for travelling across the extended reality environment.

AOIN used a disguise vx 2 media server as the director to render the xR feeds and a vx 4 to render the LED video wall and floor feeds. An rx machine was used in the uncompressed 25G mode, along with Mellanox MSN2010 switches, to achieve the best quality possible. The disguise solutions were proved on a different environment. They had to work in a live, raw world instead of a shoot that was heavily produced and edited later.

“Real-time camera switching was a crucial element for the success of this project: It gave the director the freedom to switch cameras as if it were a standard live show,” said Danny Firpo, Producer at AOIN. “We used the IoCore 2 box to receive a camera tally and convert it to OSC for camera switching, and it worked flawlessly.”

“Using xR tools [for a live performance] was definitely a step forward for the team, and so many people helped us make sure there was a smooth transition into that workflow. We were able to create real-time rendered content that could be adjusted on the fly. disguise has the highest set of standards for this type of production. I can’t imagine doing this event without it,” said Juan Santillan, CEO of Six Degrees and Executive Producer of the show.