Fortnite World Cup Finals: Ncam drops in live AR characters

Always wanted to write for Post magazine, and eventually I got to. Okay, so it’s not bylined, but this case study was put together for a client - Bubble Agency - from various bits and pieces of supplied material.

The usual snippet:

A much more challenging task for the team was the ever-changing light show, which featured a large amount of different elements; a factor that Cook says they had to take very seriously.

“The live show had thousands of lights that were continuously moving and strobing, further enhanced by a laser show for the opening and closing — all of which required AR elements to be positioned at any place within the space by the drop of a hat,” he continues. “On top of this, the auditorium was continuously filled by oil-based smoke machines, with CO2 and confetti canons also being activated for key moments throughout the event.

These elements combined are enough to throw off any optically based-tracking system. Happily, Ncam's fusion technique of combining optical and inertia data together provides the sort of redundancy required to deal with these tricky issues.

“In extreme cases such as these we took redundancy a step further in order to deliver and turned to our latest release, the Ncam Xtreme camera bar — an IR version of our tracking device,” says Cook. “Rigging a handful of IR lights, provided an IR spectrum that illuminated the [stadium], allowing our optical data to hone in on that unaffected spectrum of light, so that any type of lighting state could be achieved.”

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