Hyper-Realistic

Rendering

At a glance.

Frontier: Unreel4 based render platform

Frontier is Ross Video’s latest graphics platform, based on the Unreal4 gaming engine, capable of photorealistic scenery and works in a virtual studio environment for virtual sets and augmented reality. Frontier enables the creation of even the most complex graphical elements quickly, easily, and with unprecedented realism with greater accuracy than ever before.

Frontier uses the UX control platform as an operator-friendly front end, so operators are not required to know Unreal4 to use the system. Frontier supports customization, flexibility, and scalability in terms of number of cameras and graphics engines through the integration of UX and UX VCC applications.

Cutting-edge technology

Frontier uses the Unreal gaming engine by Epic games, the leading gaming engine in the industry with thousands of developers worldwide.

Superior graphics capabilities

The Unreal4 gaming engine utilizes advanced graphics features like collision, particles, dynamic texture, real-time reflections, skeleton animation, cloth animation and real-time shadows.

Hyperrealism

As a result of its extensive graphics feature set, designers can achieve realistic looks with greater accuracy and ease than ever before.

Ease of operation

Frontier uses UX control platform as its operator friendly front end and doesn’t require the operator to be an experienced Unreal4 user or designer.

Flexible workflow

With UX and UX VCC, any combination of tracking protocols, camera mounts, and engines is achievable within the same environment.

Real-Time Reactiveness

UX control platform enables complete control over the production and offers a toolset to modify and tweak assets and textures from a simple GUI.

Frontier Overview Video

Virtual Design Manager Chris Mollomo demonstrates the capabilities of the Frontier photorealistic renderer for virtual production solutions.

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Features

Real-Time Dynamic Shaders

Unreal4 allows the use of shaders to create realistic looking effects. From dynamic shadows, live-lights and light blooms, to reflections and refractions. These shaders and effects are applicable both in Augmented Reality and Virtual Studio environment.

Complex Animations

Unreal4 offers an unparalleled level of animation capabilities – IK, Skeleton, cloth, and Particles are just part of the toolset. Frontier supports the use of Unreal’s sequencer to manage complex animations and trigger them effortlessly.

Tracking

Through the use of UX, it is possible to mix and match tracking protocols and camera mounts to meet the requirements of the production. Weather its manual heads, mechanical encoders, cable cams, or optical tracking system, it is all transparent to UX.

Talent Interaction

Talent interaction and tracking can be easily achieved with Frontier, by the use of different technologies. Motion Capture suites or IR markers are just two of the solutions Frontier supports.

Logic & Scripting

The Blueprints Visual Scripting system in Unreal Engine is a complete gameplay scripting system based on the concept of using a node-based interface to create gameplay elements from within Unreal Editor. UX offers control and triggering ability over blueprints.

Data Integration

Driving graphics with external data is easy and straightforward with Frontier’s DataLayer. Tell better stories, discuss statistics, or show the forecast, it is all at the tip of your fingers.

Integrates With

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Applications

This product can be used as part of the following
Smart Production Solutions:

Sports & Live Venue

Government

News

Corporate

Virtual Studio

House of Worship

Mobile

Education

Specifications

HARDWARE
Chassis	4RU rack frame
System Drives	4 x 1TB RAID hot-swappable
CPU	Intel® Core™ i7-6900K Processor 15 M Cache
Mainboard	ASUS X99-E WS USB 3.1
RAID Controller	LSI® MegaRAID® SAS 9361-4i, RAID 1+0
Memory	32GB DDR4
GPU	GTX 1080 8GB 256-Bit GDDR5

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