Brainstorm’s technology is already able to offer a highly realistic integration of the remote journalist /interviewee into a virtualised environment, which includes shadow casting, and also the opportunity for the individual to walk around the environment. In addition, the teleported person can launch videos on virtual screens and manipulate virtual objects within the virtualised environment.
This level of realism coupled with the possibility of interaction with content make this technology highly appealing to broadcasters, ensuring high levels of engagement and immersion amongst audience. In the teleporting process, the talent is captured from a green studio/background and inserted in the real or virtual image as an AR object. However, the current teleporting poses very strong equipment demands.
AdMiRe takes a step forward in immersion and interaction making possible the use of the mobile phones camera(s) to capture the person to be teleported (e.g., audience at home, reporters at the place where the news is happening), increasing the flexibility and decreasing the cost of this technology. Moreover, new techniques for extracting the background without the need of standing in front of a green screen will be integrated in AdMiRe as well. In the capture tool, it is intended to include AI based tools so that the audience/reporter is well positioned to be captured, extracted and teleported with the right resolution and lighting, ensuring a perfect integration as an AR object in the final scene.
In the video below you can see how the teleporter technology from Brainstorm brough the Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde to news set of the daily news program for a virtual live interview in TVE, the national Spanish broadcaster.