disguise Powers Longest Ever AR Centered Broadcast at Opening Ceremony of 2019 Pakistan Super League posted: 13/07/2019
The Pakistan Cricket Board started the 2019 season with something truly spectacular. Right before the first match, an awe-inspiring opening ceremony took place at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium - but this was unlike any event ever seen in the tournament's history. Broadcast to over 50 million people around the world, the 60-minute Pakistan Super League opening ceremony combined mind-blowing augmented reality graphics with live performances from global acts, including iconic 70's funk band Boney M, Pakistan's Junoon and solo stars Fawad Khan, Young Desi, Aima Baig and Shuja Haider.
Event management company ITW Trans Group collaborated with specialists in large scale opening ceremonies, concerts, and events, The Musketeers. Having coordinated the creative vision behind the last three Pakistan Super League opening ceremonies, Creative Director Samer Feghali wanted to push the envelope of live entertainment boundaries.
With an annual global audience of 50 million people, our goal each year is to keep this an exciting and engaging component of the tournament, and to push the creative vision for both the television audience, and those in the stadium stated Samer. AR was something that we had wanted to try for this event, but it was always going to be a risk - this duration of real-time AR rendering had never been done before. We worked with ITW, explaining they would be the first hosts ever to orchestrate an opening ceremony of this kind, and once they gave the green light, it was all systems go!
The teams used disguise gx 2 servers, designed for unparalleled generative content capacity, to render the AR content for the several artists performing, as well as the added spectacular elements. Creative Producer Urs Nyffenegger said, The Notch and disguise combination was essential for the success of the PSL Opening Ceremony due to the adaptability, flexibility and unparalleled real-time workflow capabilities. Everything we were able to accomplish on this project was only possible because of disguise.
A project as ambitious as this came with a host of its own challenges. Not only did the teams have a short turn-around time of just 45 days, but they had only 15 minutes to remove the stage from the Cricket pitch. We have to take care of the pitch area and we have very limited time to take care of it, said Samer. Every time we ran a rehearsal, we could not pinpoint the stage exactly, so to calibrate with disguise and the stYpe Cameras during setup within an hour was amazing.
To add to the already complex event, the main headliner for the Opening Ceremony pulled out the day before, leaving the team to reconfigure the content with just 24 hours' notice. With such a short turnaround, Scott Millar from Bild Studios chose Notch and disguise because of the proven compatibility and solid combination, meaning it would be delivered on time. To overcome the artist issue, a virtual DJ was flown out for the Opening Ceremony last minute. The user-friendly features of the disguise server meant the DJ content was immediately integrated with the compiled show.
With disguise we were able to composite all six cameras feeds, with camera delay, with AR, and with the graphics on top to present that composited output to the vision mixer to the camera returns, and we were able to do that for two cameras per server. This is a huge benefit over other systems. In the world of live events, with disguise, you are really able to send stuff' everywhere, said Scott.
The disguise servers made calibrating the cameras prior to the show simple and managed all the input from each camera. stYpe was the partner in camera tracking and provided custom tracking heads and third-party software to allow accurate tracking of the project for all six camera involved. They were able to pull off all tracking on time, with an 80% increase in the clarity and quality.
The disguise servers made calibrating the cameras prior to the show simple and managed all the input from each camera. stYpe was the partner in camera tracking and provided custom tracking heads and third-party software to allow accurate tracking of the project for all six camera involved. They were able to pull off all tracking on time, with an 80% increase in the clarity and quality.
We built virtual cubes with LEDs to accompany the music set for the headline artist, and without the VJ they would have been black. Integrating his content was so easily assimilated I was amazed, it just worked with the disguise hardware, and in theory it is not so easy to accomplish, added Urs Nyffenegger, who alongside the Studio One team provided the AR animation elements.
The PSL Opening Ceremony featured a disco scene, flying F16 jets, a 30-meter trophy, a robot that landed on stage, and more. The end result was a 45-minute live
show with 12 different AR scenes achieved using disguise, Notch, and Stype technology, combining AR and VR with live broadcast to over 50 million people around the globe. This accomplished the longest ever duration of an AR centered broadcast.
Credits for the Pakistan Super League Opening Ceremony:
Event: Pakistan Super League Opening Ceremony
End client: Pakistan Cricket Board
ITW Trans Group: Event management partner
The Musketeers: Led AR work and content for the show
Creative Director: Samer Feghali, Coordinated the creative vision behind the opening ceremony.
Bild Studios: David Bajt, Creative AR Producer, and Scott Millar, Technical AR Producer: Technically produced the project, and supplied all the equipment for the AR show, as well as content production.
Studio One: Urs Nyffenegger, Creative Producer and team produced the AR animations.
Notch: Workflow used to create the interactive
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disguise Powers Longest Ever AR Centered Broadcast at Opening Ceremony of 2019 Pakistan Super League posted: 13/07/2019 
