Ross Video® and The Future Group Rewrite Playbook for Virtual Studios

Thursday, August 17th, 2017 [Ottawa, Ontario, Canada] – Ross Video and The Future Group are pleased to announce the availability of Frontier™, the most innovative Virtual Studio Graphics Rendering platform, ever produced by the collaborating companies.

“Frontier raises the broadcasting bar for virtual and augmented reality productions with incredible levels of creative design freedom that are combined with hyper-realistic rendering quality for virtual sets that are much more natural and convincing,” said Gideon Ferber, Director of Marketing Product Management for Ross Virtual Solutions. “Modest studio spaces are made to look much larger and more impressive, and set design is quickly and easily changed for different applications delivering much more flexibility and profitability – a true smart production investment.”

Frontier uses the superior Unreal gaming engine, from Epic Games, as the render engine, which provides exceptional high realism scenery through state-of-the-art features such as particle systems, dynamic textures, live reflections and shadows and even collision detection. It is this cutting-edge video engine that Ross Video and The Future Group has developed and optimized for Virtual Studio broadcast environments to realize the Frontier broadcast advantage.

Used for rendering background scenery, or foreground objects, Frontier works seamlessly with Ross Video’s XPression motion graphics system, which provides workflow tools and data connectivity. The combination of Frontier with XPression guarantees the best of all worlds – photorealistic backgrounds and unparalleled creative freedom along with unmatched data connectivity, visual logic programming and full support for major workflows.

To learn more about this smart production solution, visit Ross Video’s Stand 9.C10 at IBC2017 or email solutions@rossvideo.com.

Ross Video is Smart Production
Ross powers video productions for billions of global viewers daily with the industry’s widest range of smart production solutions. Ross makes it easy to create compelling news, weather and sports broadcasts, engaging material for sports stadium screens, entertainment shows and rock concerts, educational institutions, legislative assemblies, corporate applications, and inspiring content for houses of worship. Ross solutions have impressed the audiences and marketing partners of NBC Sunday Night Football, Google YouTube Space London and China’s eSports powerhouse VSPN. Ross delivers an unrivalled range of products and services comprising virtual studios, real-time motion graphics, cameras, robotic camera systems, production switchers, video servers, infrastructure and routers, social media management, newsroom systems and mobile live events.

About The Future Group
The Future Group is a leading content-driven technology company, and is the creator of Interactive Mixed Reality™ (IMR). The Future Group provides solutions that include photorealistic mixed reality broadcasts, IMR-enhanced content design/development for dynamic virtual sets, and a virtual studio for testing, training, and customer productions.

Seeking to revolutionize TV production, mobile gaming and commercial solutions, The Future Group’s mission is to merge multiple media formats to create the next-generation of interactive commercial and industrial content. Based in Oslo and with a branch office in the U.S.

The Future Group. http://www.futureuniverse.com

-30-

Ross Video Media Contact – North America, LATAM & EMEA:

Sara Bell
Media Relations Specialist
Tel:      +1 613-652-3020
Fax:     +1 613-652-4425
Email:  sbell@rossvideo.com
Twitter: @ross_video
www.rossvideo.com

Ross Video Media Contact – Asia Pacific:

Vivian Yu
Marketing & Operations Manager, Asia Pacific
Tel:      +65 9827 3531
Fax:     +1 613-652-4425
Email:  vyu@rossvideo.com
Twitter: @ross_video
www.rossvideo.com

The Future Group:

Nils Gjerstad
Corporate Communications Manager
Tel:      +47 450 95 488
Email:  ngj@futureuniverse.com
Twitter: @tfguniverse
www.futureuniverse.com/