Environment Capture

Capture of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Crowds and other cluttering elements have been removed, as the base scan was performed while the museum was open to the public.

What is Environment Capture?

Environment Capture is Immersion Room's technology and workflows for capturing an existing real space, and bringing it into an LED volume for seamless shooting.

Whether you have a unique practical set that needs to be preserved, a location that's difficult to access or control, or a space that needs a specific seasonal appearance, Environment Capture is the best way to achieve complete creative control over a location in studio.

With Immersion Room's Environment Capture, you can go beyond traditional 3D methods to achieve a new kind of fidelity and control.

Capture of the Hart House in Toronto. Lighting has been overhauled, atmosphere added, and practical set elements replicated into the virtual environment. Stained glass windows augmented for creative control.

Creative Integration

Partnering with Immersion Room to capture your real environments ensures a level of creative continuity through the entire process, from pre-production all the way to your studio shoot.

Our team's approach goes beyond simply being a 3D scan, as we fold in the unique filmmaking and storytelling needs of your project as we capture. This includes considerations for lighting, production design, and blocking that require deep integration with the LED volume.

Beyond a technical service, Immersion Room is a creative partner in the storytelling process that enables traditional film departments to do what they do best.

Capture of The Distillery District in Toronto. Lighting and sky replaced, weather added, and digi-doubles captured on shoot day with Multi-Light-Capture.

Dynamic Art Direction

Real environments aren't static, and our art direction workflow ensures that a faithful capture of your project's environment has dynamic elements that elevate them into looking and feeling exactly like a real practical location.

Using a range of custom tech and workflows, we can incorporate hybrid elements like weather, dynamic lighting, virtual extras, fully controllable skies, and custom-scanned set pieces and props to augment and enhance an existing space.

Touches like these create the final polish that truly makes a space come alive when shot in studio.

Capture of Allan Gardens Conservatory in Toronto. Crowds removed, as the base scan was performed while the conservatory was open to the public. There is more detail in this environment than the other 3 examples on this page combined.

Gaussian Splatting

One of several scanning techniques we use in our Environment Capture workflow is built on cutting-edge gaussian splatting, which allows for unique 3D views of environments that look indistinguishable from real photographs of the same space.

When paired with the right environments, the fidelity of reflections, transparent materials, and fine detail achieved with gaussian splatting surpasses other traditional 3D modelling and photogrammetry methods. This makes it ideal for cost-effective virtual environments that would otherwise be too costly or time-consuming to recreate by other means.

Immersion Room has revisited the low-level research, further developing the scanning, processing, and rendering processes to make gaussian splatting a much more proficient filmmaking tool.

Do you have a project that needs to take a real location into the studio, or you're curious about how Environment Capture can help make your production smoother?

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