The French creative studio Blue Node Paris specialises in real-time virtual environments. Due to the shooting of forty-three musical numbers in four days for the French TV show “La Soirée Extraordinaire”, in partnership for this task with Pure View XR Studio and D/Labs, they together has used disguise Extended Reality (xR) workflow as essential solution.

Blue Node Paris utilised two disguise vx 4 media servers and four rx render nodes with RenderStream to create the selection of photorealistic virtual scenes developed in Unreal Engine. “We could not have done this without disguise,” says Blue Node’s co-founder Pierre-Guy di Costanzo. “disguise is an xR specialist and a robust delivery solution.”

The French concert TV show transported singer Julien Doré from a forest cabin to a Grand Canyon filled with dream-like animals. Also, it showcased duo Vitaa and Slimane in a chateau ballroom where the floor became a giant chessboard and the singer’s queen and king.

Music TV production company DMLS TV initially approached Pure View XR studio (powered by Virtual display Services) regarding the unusual concept for “La Soirée Extraordinaire.” Blue Node’s CGI specialists handled the extended and augmented reality elements for the show, providing a workflow for creatives to work swiftly with the artists during the tight turnaround for the show.  Blue Node Paris also collaborated with D/Labs, which provided artistic direction and 2D content, and technical services provider AMP Visual TV on tests for the cameras and camera switching. Ten cameras were used, five of them tracked. The entire project took five weeks to produce.

“No live broadcast shows before this used Extended Reality in France,” says di Costanzo. “We have many music TV shows, and it is always the same thing: someone speaking with a big screen. With xR you can go further and immerse the artists in the studio world. This has not been seen before. When the producer saw a demo in our studio he was interested in the technology. We could deliver this vision technically, creatively, and everything in between.”