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"Someone is coming towards you. Invites you to sit down... To close your eyes for a few seconds...
You feel hands around your head. They put virtual reality headphones over your eyes... headphones over your ears.
GO... You open your eyes. Transported on the set of the 8pm news of France 2. And not just anywhere on this impressive set... You are in the presenter's place. On HIS armchair. Finally ... stool.
Yes you're really there...
You turn your head a little to your left and who do you see? Anne-Sophie Lapix herself. She welcomes you in the Saint of the Saints, emblem of the channel France 2, great mass, as they say, of information.
Better still, she announces that you are going to replace her!
The pressure mounts and you live the last two minutes before the 8 p.m. news: The test sets, the director talking to you, the editor-in-chief informing you, the last minute changes, it's swarming everywhere and you... you have to concentrate because you're going to be in the spotlight in 5,4,3,2...".
This experience is for you, isn't it?
The Making-Of in video
An Orange Labs, Innovations & Developments and MediaLab project
This experiment was filmed on Wednesday, March 21 on the set of the France 2 newspaper. The filming required a lot of preparation and the work of a plural team within France Télévisions: Information Department, Innovations & Developments and MediaLab.
But not only... since it is also a partnership with Orange Labs which involved the production agency Digital Immersion, to carry out the shooting of this project.
The genesis of this project comes from Orange Labs, who wanted to create a total immersive experience with an image quality far superior to what we know today, to be able to immerse the viewer in a real environment of bewitching precision.
Either the assembly of 24 Gopro Hero 6 in 2.7k for a very high definition 360° qualitative restitution in stereoscopy. That is to say that you can look everywhere and with the same feeling of depth as in real life.
An image and sound as if you were there
The sound rendering in binaural thanks to the ambisonic format is obviously of rigor because it allows a realism without detour: With a whole arsenal of techniques that allow you to hear both the people on the set around you and the people in the control room via the headset, while having the sensation of spatialization: when you choose to change your viewing angle your listening axis adapts to the movements of your head.
If Anne-Sophie Lapix talks to you from the front, you can hear her in front of you, but if you turn your head and she is behind you then you will hear her behind you... On the other hand, the earpiece is always in your right ear, it does not leave you and the people who speak to you via this channel are always in your right ear.
You are really living this unique moment that only a few presenters have experienced since the creation of the 8pm news on France 2.
The actors of the project
For this project to see the light of day, Matthieu Parmentier, R&D project manager, brought together all the players from FranceTélévisions, Orange Labs and Digital Immersion and allowed the whole experience to be set to music. Arnaud Vincenti, artistic director of l'Info, played the conductor by writing an extremely realistic scenario, assisted in the expertise of sound and 360° image by Lidwine Hô, project manager specialized in binaural sound, and Nathalie Duboz, journalist specialized in 360° format at the MediaLab.
The day of March 21st was therefore the culmination of a perfect teamwork that allowed the smooth shooting of this 2-minute film in virtual reality. With the real teams of the Journal including the production manager, the director, the presenter, the set manager, the make-up artist, the cameramen, lighting and sound engineers and many others - who will be credited on the credits of the film - because a newspaper obviously doesn't make itself alone. Each profession was in fact represented by the team of the day who directed the TRUE 8pm on Wednesday, March 21.
The next step will take time as it is now a matter of bringing together the images from 24 cameras to create a perfect stereoscopic sphere to immerse you in this experience.
The sound work will also be a great challenge since it will also be necessary to transform it into a sphere and insert it in the final stereoscopic VR image.
The result will be available to VRspectactors on the occasion of the Heritage Days in September 2018... Expect an extraordinary experience!
