Virtual and augmented reality make possible the Red Bull Battle of the most ambitious roosters in history

NEP Spain produces the greatest improvised rap competition in Spanish -speaking, in a completely virtual environment with augmented reality live.

Many speak, few rhyme, only the best improvise and millions of fans follow the best live rappers on December 12 International Red Bull Battle End of Los Gallos more ambitious so far.

This record audience witnessed the victory of the Mexican Rpleder About Spanish Clean In the world's first rap championship to become a completely virtual environment.

The international final led the participants to a virtual space, to the dimension of the flow. In the final battle as a stage and theme we could see Rapder and Skone compete first in the desert and then in an Arctic space immersed in an increased fantasy of reality.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the last tour of national roosted battles NEP Broadcast and of the creative study based in Cádiz, Babber, specialized in the launch of all kinds of events.

For the grand finale, the initial idea was to produce the event in Belgium or Holland, traveling the roosters to Europe, and those that by restrictions could not travel will participate remotely thanks to a chromakey and teleportation. To prove this solution, NEP carried out a series of tests, mainly as far as latencies were referred to, connecting Buenos Aires and Zurich with a set in Brussels. However, due to the new wave of Covid Europe, it shielded, and forced to look for an alternative.

Finally, the production team chose to take the final to the studies Pinewood in a country with open borders and availability of accommodations such as Dominican Republic, creating a bubble where technical staff and participants could interact safely.

Ra in Pinewood Dominican Republic

NEP Spain (NEP GROUP) developed a full -based complete event (AR), where the challenge was no longer only the lack of public, but also, the participants would be immersed in a great Chroma Key, offering the viewer a virtual world that would leave with their mouths open to more than 15 million that followed the event live.

For 25 days of intense work by 70 professionals, NEP launched this ambitious project in terms of production and streaming fighting against clock and raffling all the logistics challenges that the pandemic presented.

Although Nep Spain had already included augmented reality in the international final held in 2019, for this occasion the bar rose with augmented reality in a study of 1,500 m² and 16 meters high.

At the head of the operation, Joel Master, director of NEP Spain and professional with a long experience in the production of all kinds of events, recognizes that "without a doubt, it has been the most difficult production of my career."

To realize this ambitious project in such extreme conditions, NEP had to pull all the threads at its disposal: from the NEP subsidiary in Singapore, specialized in the design and integration of Flight Packs, a “Mobile study”Which included a kayaking mixer and several LDX 86n cameras Grass Valley. A console was in charge of the audio mixture Lawo.

To have an idea of ​​what a production of this draft is in times of Covid, it is worth noting that for lighting, a hundred Skypanel ARRI From New York to Pine Wood Dominican Republic that served to fill an immense Chroma Key of 24 × 16 meters and 12 background, as well as another 5x5x5 meters auxiliary. The dozens of liters of Rosco paint For this immense Chroma were sent to counterreloj from Connecticut (USA).

NEP's experience in great events, with a division specifically dedicated to logistics, Global SOSIt made it possible for all the material to be in time including the 9 tons of equipment from Singapore and Amsterdam.

Scenario design

The artistic direction of the Red Bull Battle of the Gallos was in the hands of NEP Netherlands With Catalan Paulí will go up, who has extensive experience in virtual and augmented reality production over the last years in Televisió de Catalunya (TV3).

For stage content design, the option was to work with Unreal of Epic Games and software developed by the NEP itself focused on virtual production for real -time Broadcast. This tool allows a set with virtual and augmented reality, being able to move all layers by layers without rendering. Together, he will work as a realization assistant FUCK VAZQUEZ.

The creative team was in the need to, in just a few days, develop the content, conceptualize everything and lower it to the set choosing dimensions, physical disposition ..., getting everything to perfectly.

Mestre acknowledges that "content and art direction in this event was very important. If we had had more time, we would have refined the concept, but the pandemic has come to complicate all the phases of an ambitious project like this."

For participants in the Red Bull Battle of the roosters, they could move freely throughout the set “immersed” in virtual environments that went from the desert to the Arctic, in the main study of Pinewood Dominican Republic a system of the German was installed Trackmen.

The cameras monitoring systems determine the position of the camera and the support system to represent the virtual image from the same perspective that each of the 5 tracked chambers used on this occasion offered. Its markers Viotrack system are identified by image processing and are located in 3D. As a surprising result, virtual graphics are ‘adhere’ precisely to the set. The result is a perfect key from any angle and camera movement.

Mestre concludes by stating that the organization of the Red Bull Battle of Los Gallos have again trusted “NEP for Top quality, results, service and, very important, human quality”.

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