By Jean-Paul Chevreux and Yves-Marie

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France Télévisions Innovation Department

From November 4 to 6, the 6th edition of VRDays Europe was held , a trade show dedicated to virtual, augmented and mixed reality technologies and all their variations, which are grouped under the term Extended Reality or XR.

The physical part of the show in Amsterdam was reduced to cyprus mobile database a minimum and most of the conferences or round tables were held via videoconference. Even the exhibitors' stands were virtual. On the program. immersive storytelling, serious games, hardware evolution but also innovations in the field of health.

With a new theme in this year of pandemic. the contribution of virtual technology to telework and remote collaboration. A good prefiguration of what the world of work of tomorrow could represent.

Virtual production

The use of real-time 3D engines like Epic Games' Unreal Engine or Unity, originally intended for video games, is increasingly present in television and film production. This allows directors to obtain the near-final rendering of the scene without waiting for post-production, and above all to be able to modify the virtual part of the scene on the fly, whether in green screen studios, or thanks to LED walls that directly display the 3D decor, notably used during the production of The Mandalorian .