Introduction to Virtual Production

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• Welcome, VR and virtual production isn't just the media we knew and loved from the 20th century in
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• a stereo headset.
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• It's much more than that.
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• VR doesn't simply show us images of the world around us and studio in stereo 3D in a literal sense.
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• Sure, that's what it does.
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• But there's a little like saying that music just wiggles the air in our ears.
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• Technically, this is true, but too reductive to let us understand the whole picture.
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• We are placed with our sensors and dances with the cognitive mechanism in which by which we understand
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• the world to get into virtual production and VR and learn how to create content for it.
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• We need to accept that this is an entirely new medium and we don't know the rules.
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• We're going to invent the language and everything that we know about it.
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• This is very powerful stuff for creatives.
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• Without question, virtual production or some variant of this technology is likely the defining art
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• form of the 21st century, you'd be right to greet this with assertion and a little bit of skepticism
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• given the present state of the technology and how the industry is moving.
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• It takes some imagination to see beyond the horizon of what we actually are now and when we can be.
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• And you've probably seen the public expectations are in a race to the actual state of the technology.
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• We've seen the Mandalorian from from Disney.
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• We've seen very good production, quality made and virtual production from Netflix and HBO.
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• But we are going to show you what you can do in a home studio with a little bit of tinkering and get
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• right started.
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• So opinions about virtual production, therefore, are all over the place.
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• If you're in one of these phases where the tech meets makes the leap forward, people get amazed and
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• excited by the possibilities.
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• And the breathless blogs declared that the world has changed thanks to virtual production.
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• If you're in one of these phases where the expectations have jumped ahead, suddenly everybody's disappointed
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• that this Oculus Rift has morphed overnight into the holodeck.
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• And we see a lot of disappointment and disillusionment on blogs.
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• So it's impossible to predict where the pendulum will swing when it comes to this exact topic.
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• Here's the reality, though, and why we believe that this medium is worth learning right now.
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• Virtual production is coming.
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• It's inevitable and it changes everything, even if it isn't just right now obvious from the rudimentary
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• state of the first generation of this technology that we will be exploring today.
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• This medium carries the potential to revolutionize the way we learn, play and engage with the virtual
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• world and so much more that we're going to show and have some fun.
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• But it's going to take time and imagination.
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• And the most important part is to stay humble.
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• PvP is a medium at its crossroads.
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• The decisions we make to now are going to carry us far into the future.
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• The developers working in this medium would be one of the first to shape its language, its methods
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• and for the for the next generation of people working on it.
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• So to summarize, to work in virtual production is to work on the frontier and it's an exciting place
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• to be.
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• In this course, we intend to give you a solid set of tools to begin your work in this frontier, this
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• exciting frontier.
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• This video tutorial series uses a practical hands on approach to teach you how to build virtual production
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• projects and applications using the unreal engine for.
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• Each chapter walks, you step by step through the process of building the essential building blocks
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• of a virtual production setup, you can use this in your own studio application.
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• We pair these steps with in-depth explanations of what's really going on behind the hood when you follow
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• them and why things are done the way the way we're doing them.
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• This is why that matters.
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• Understanding how the underlying systems and ideas work is crucial to the work you'll be doing on your
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• own after you've finished these tutorials and in this class, we've tried to give you both an understanding
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• of what to do to build a virtual production application and the background you will need in order to
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• use this course as a springboard for your own work.
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• You should come away from this course with a solid understanding of how virtual productions work, clothes
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• are built, and specifically you need to know and understand about unreal engine to build them.
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• It's our hope that the work we do together today here will set you up to explore on your own into this
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• new frontier wherever you want to go.
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• So who is this course for?
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• Well, if you're interested in creating virtual production setups, you're interested in VR games or
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• application, you're interested in seeing how virtual production or VR works together in conjunction
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• with this content is for you.
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