Microsoft Reality Capture Studio
The problem
Microsoft needed its volumetric capture process explained to audiences who would never enter the lab.
The approach
Document the process in the same medium it produces — stereoscopic VR, so viewers stand inside the studio.
What was built
Stereoscopic VR behind-the-scenes capture of the Mixed Reality Lab's volumetric and holographic pipeline.
The outcome
Delivered November 2019 as part of Microsoft's Story Labs 360 series. $27,000 production.
Panogs captured a stereoscopic VR behind-the-scenes look at Microsoft’s Mixed Reality Lab — documenting the volumetric video and holographic data-capture process for use in immersive educational applications, delivered November 2019 as part of Microsoft’s Story Labs 360 video series.
Corroborated across two independent internal sources: a dated production reference doc (“02 - Microsoft Reality Capture Studio, November 1st 2019, Volumetric Video, 360º Video capture, Cost - $27,000”) and a separate professional reference letter naming the same engagement — “Microsoft Story Labs episode: Explore a Mixed Reality Capture Studio” — as part of collaborator Dan Fernie-Harper’s work with Gavin between 2017 and 2019.
Nearly five minutes of the capture — the volumetric studio itself, green screen and lighting rig included — is on this page now, drag-to-look. The original was shot stereoscopic for a VR headset; what plays here is a monoscopic re-encode of one eye, since a browser 360 player has no use for the second.
We captured a behind-the-scenes look, in stereoscopic VR, of the Microsoft Mixed Reality Lab volumetric video and holographic data capture process.