By means of Planar Studios, the providers continue to assistance today’s diverse broadcast production and content material creation wants, furthering their leadership position in extended and virtual reality

LAS VEGAS, April 16, 2023–(Organization WIRE)–Planar, a worldwide leader in visualization technologies, and sister enterprise OptiTrack, the worldwide leader in 3D tracking systems, nowadays, at the 2023 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show, announced plans to present their diverse portfolio of new and enhanced sophisticated broadcast technologies to date.

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Planar and OptiTrack to showcase their diverse and enhanced sophisticated broadcast technologies at NAB 2023. (Photo: Organization Wire)

Due to the fact launched in 2021, Planar Studios has revolutionized the broadcast, virtual production (VP) and extended reality (XR) markets, empowering the world’s major visual storytellers to engage audiences via sophisticated technological developments, by leveraging Planar’s revolutionary and award-winning fine pitch LED show options and OptiTrack’s ultra-precise 3D motion capture systems.

“Planar and OptiTrack are constantly bringing the most revolutionary and cutting-edge show and mocap technologies to NAB and this year is no distinctive,” stated Planar Executive Vice President Adam Schmidt. “This year, we have an array of new and enhanced merchandise made particularly for on-camera and in-camera environments — the most sophisticated supplying for the market place to date, backed by decades of on-camera broadcast sector leadership.”

At NAB 2023, Planar will be showcasing the Planar® CarbonLight™ CLI VX Series, featuring an enhanced scan ratio, eliminating show-to-camera artifacts from getting captured in the course of a camera panning motion. Planar will also present the NAB debut of the Planar® Venue™ Pro VX Series, as nicely as the award-winning and longstanding selection of broadcasters Planar® TVF Series and the premium fine pitch MicroLED Planar® DirectLight® Ultra™ Series.

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OptiTrack will demonstrate their substantial line of motion capture cameras, optical motion tracking software program and object tracking capabilities at NAB 2023, such as CinePuck™, a tracking tool made particularly for virtual production, mixed reality and broadcast studios.

LEDs Developed to Revolutionize Content material Creation and Delivery

• Planar CarbonLight CLI VX Series: Cutting-edge LED displays that function unrivaled image high quality and versatility to revolutionize the production of realistic on-camera and in-camera content material. Featuring an enhanced scan ratio, the series delivers higher flexibility in how video walls adapt to distinctive cameras and effects. The lightweight LED show is obtainable in 1.9 and two.six millimeter pixel pitches and incorporates models with Brompton and Colorlight controllers. The series supports hanging, wall-mounted, absolutely free-standing and curved installations to beautifully integrate with broadcast, VP and XR studios. It functions enhanced thermal management and uniformity, precise but versatile colour management and a wide colour gamut for higher colour compatibility. With an LED refresh price of 3840 Hz and frame prices ranging from 24 – 144 Hz, clients advantage from smooth motion and compatibility with a assortment of camera settings.

• Planar® CarbonLight™ CLF VX Series: LED flooring with a two.six millimeter pixel pitch that can be utilized to build a higher resolution, continuous canvas, practically expanding physical environments. The square (500×500 millimeters), thin LED flooring displays function carbon fiber frames with layered put on-proof masking to assistance up to 1,102 pounds per show, facilitating heavy loads.

• Planar Venue Pro VX Series: Indoor fine pixel pitch LED video wall displays that provide exceptional in-camera visual functionality for VP and XR studios, as nicely as on-camera visual functionality for broadcasters. The series combines higher-performing scan and refresh prices with higher brightness and narrow pixel pitches, generating it nicely-suited for LED volumes in markets as diverse as film and video production, corporate, broadcast, rental and staging, as nicely as reside events. Developed to assistance hanging, stacked or wall-mounted installations, assistance for HDR-prepared content material, a wide colour gamut, such as up to DCI-P3 colour space and compatibility with a wide variety of cameras, the series delivers the unmatched visual functionality and deployment versatility necessary to create lifelike recorded, streamed or broadcast video content material.

• Planar TVF Series: An award-winning family members of fine pitch LED video wall displays delivering superior on-camera functionality with a wide variety of refresh prices to assure that it can be utilized with a assortment of broadcast wants. The series delivers models with fine pixel pitches from .9 – two.five millimeters and functions a front service, cableless, stackable style that offers new which means to multi-functionality and reduces the complexity of installation and vertical alignment, generating it a longstanding preferred for broadcast clients.

• Planar DirectLight Ultra Series: Premium fine pitch MicroLED video wall displays presenting numerous show technologies advancements that, in mixture, provide significant functionality. Offered in .six, .7, .9 and 1.two millimeter pixel pitches, the series functions models with MicroLEDs, off-board energy provide, proprietary alignment technologies and constructed-in processing to provide constantly-on, higher resolution show experiences for unmatched visual functionality for close viewing distances and the most refined applications. The Planar EverCare Lifetime Restricted Warranty is also incorporated, supplying clients full self-assurance in their LED video wall buy when decreasing lifetime price-of-ownership.

State-of-the-Art Motion Capture Technologies

• OptiTrack™ Motion Capture: Selected for its precision, accuracy, ease of use, reliability and polished integration with on-set tools, OptiTrack’s higher speed and wide field-of-view motion tracking cameras, active tracking elements, passive tracking markers and sophisticated motion capture software program stay the selection for the world’s premier volumes.

• CinePuck: The objective-constructed, active marker tracking tool for studios, CinePuck mounts straight to cinema or broadcast cameras, enabling studios to know the camera’s movement and continuous field of view with major-edge tracking accuracy and precision. CinePuck information integrates with the on-screen atmosphere to adjust virtual background imagery from the viewpoint of the cinema or broadcast camera, minimizing parallax error. It can be seamlessly integrated into any production workflows, such as crowed rigging configurations.

Planar and OptiTrack’s substantial choice of LED show and camera tracking options made to assistance today’s diverse production wants will be on show at Booth #W2633. For a lot more info, pay a visit to www.planar.com or www.optitrack.com.

About Planar
Planar is a worldwide leader in visualization technologies, delivering greatest-in-class image functionality for the world’s most demanding environments. From broadcast studios and virtual production and extended reality stages to government, corporate, and educational facilities, the world’s major organizations use Planar’s broad choice of show options in applications ranging from digital signage, simulation and production to significant scale events and significant-scale visualization. Planar is the worldwide market place leader for LED video displays, narrow pixel pitch LED displays and ultra-narrow pixel pitch LED displays (Futuresource 2022). Founded in 1983, Planar is headquartered in Oregon, USA with offices and manufacturing facilities in Oregon, Europe and Asia.

About OptiTrack
OptiTrack is the worldwide leader in 3D tracking systems via its 3D precision, low latency output, quick to use workflows, as nicely as a host of developer tools. Serving markets in drone and ground robot tracking, movement sciences, virtual production and character animation for film and games as nicely as virtual reality or mixed reality tracking, OptiTrack is the most broadly-utilized tracking option and is the preferred of demanding globe-major academia study and expert teams.

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Contacts

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Blu Print Public Relations: group@bluprintpr.net, 503-850-2454
Planar &amp OptiTrack: Kim Brown, pr@planar.com