Disguise buys Polygon Labs to enhance its cloud flows in the broadcast field

Polygon Labs, a platform for data and content visualization solutions aimed at the broadcast world, has been acquired by disguise.

By adding Polygon Labs to your award-winning workflow, disguise will create integrations that will allow studios xR have access to a wider range of workflows emission that enhances remote production and the cloud-based collaboration. Users of both disguise as of Polygon Labs will be able to benefit from “easy to manage” and data-driven graphical workflows that execute Unreal Engine completely natively, as well as greater graphics design and production capacity.

Today, through its suite of software solutions and creative services, Polygon Labs offers a cloud-native platform and turnkey services trusted by world-leading broadcasters such as CNN, Univision, The Weather Channel and TV Globo. Polygon Labs dynamically controls and supplies high end graphics with Unreal Engine and real-time data visualization through your cloud or on-premises solutions for some of the most important events, such as american elections, los Olympics and the World Cup.

Fernando Kufer, CEO of disguise, calls the acquisition of Polygon Labs a “key turning point for our user, partner and customer communities, and a big step in our direction toward the cloud and new media production workflows.” “The future is cloud-based remote collaboration and our work with Polygon Labs will unlock a whole new level of productivity and connectivity for all our users,” he adds.

Grigory Mindlin, CEO of Polygon Labs, has also positively valued this new stage: "Joining forces with disguise will take us to the next chapter of accelerating our journey towards cloud graphics production workflows. Our shared vision and our passion for delivering the most engaging visual experiences will help us empower our users with a much more complete solution to deliver the world's most engaging graphics for storytelling."

Roadmap

Over the coming months, Disguise and Polygon Labs will be collaborating closely to create a integrated workflow that provides value to users on both platforms. In the near future, users will be able to get a unified data aggregation cloud-based and graphics control that allows easy integration of broadcast workflows.

In addition, a new disguise office is planned to open in New York in Q3 2022, where the Polygon team will join the East Coast disguise team.