NewscastStudio: Studio X, located inside Digital Center 2 on ESPN’s campus in Bristol, Connecticut, has been the home of “SportsCenter” since 2014. Last year, phase one of the upgrades to the studio included the addition of 38 million pixels of LED, including a massive 48-foot display, the largest on ESPN’s campus, along with a flexible anchor desk.
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This sports studio does an amazing job of showing off what is possible to do with modern equipment in the field of studio design and video and media design. The most impressive section of the studio is probably the virtual window. This reminds me of the video-wall set that has been making headlines for the Mandalorian, except in this situation the parallax is being calculated live as the camera moves. Creating content live for a led wall like this is something that seems incredibly interesting to work on. As awesome as this is for broadcast, I don’t think that a similar system would be possible for theater because of the number of different angles which people would view the screen from. I do however think that it emphasizes the idea that almost anything is possible with VMD, it just takes new ideas and programming.
I also wanted to note the lighting for this studio. It seems like it would be a challenge because the studio can be on camera from any direction but you still need smooth broadcast lighting and to not have the job of the camera cast shadows. This sounds like a hard and interesting problem to solve.
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