My name's Scott Gibson.
I've been working at RiVR now for the past four years and
started up the immersive video department, and we've
grown ever since.
After testing for many years with 360 video, we realised
that many viewers don't tend to look behind them.
People just want to look within 180 degrees.
So we found that that was the best medium for us to work with
as a result.
But the problem with it is, is that you had to create
custom 180 rigs.
They were not ideal.
There was a lot of added workflow in post-production.
And so now Canon have come along with this
Dual Fisheye Lens, it's literally been, overnight,
an amazing tool to be able to create stuff with ease.
So one of the clients that RiVR's worked really,
really close with in recent times is Warwick Castle.
There are areas of the castle that were never designed for
anyone with any kind of disability, and we wanted
them to be able to see parts of the castle that they would
never normally be able to see.
It's been an absolute game changer for us to be able to
utilise Canon's new lens, along with the bodies, that are
capable of filming 8K raw at up to 60 frames per second.
Now that we've got the Canon EOS R5 C, the results
have been incredible.
We literally can just shoot, take that card straight out of
the camera and we can then process it straight away.
Being able to view that image in a VR headset
is almost lifelike.
You feel like you're there.
Being at Warwick Castle today, experiencing the Birds
of Prey show, and being able to capture that,
was an absolute treat.
The levels of realism that viewers will experience will be
like nothing else they've seen before in VR.
The other side of the business we also do is 3-D model
creation using photogrammetry.
We want to be able to capture historical things forever,
in digital form and, using photogrammetry, we are
able to do that.
My name is Ross and I'm Head of Photogrammetry at RiVR.
Photogrammetry is the process of taking hundreds,
sometimes thousands, of photographs and, using some
software called Reality Capture, we then
turn these photos into three dimensional models.
So today we were at Warwick Castle and we scanned
this historic table, called Kenilworth Buffet,
which depicts the scene of Queen Elizabeth
visiting Kenilworth Castle.
And this was about 500 photographs, and we
need an incredible amount of detail to actively replicate
this in a 3-D environment.
So image sharpness, properly exposed, and high
megapixel count is key to these sorts of scans.
That's why the Canon R5 is perfect for this.
Canon are always innovating with their cameras.
And the new Dual Fisheye Lens has been something that no
other camera company are doing right now.
And I think they're ahead of the game with that.
The Canon Dual Fisheye Lens, coupled with the R5 C, is the
perfect piece of kit for any VR filmmaker.
The user base is forever expanding with the introduction
of the metaverse now.
AR and VR hardware is going to be huge.
It's going to be in everybody's household,
sooner than you think.