

The cameras filming the performance were also watched by a motion capture system, each outfitted with a marker allowing the system to track the camera’s position and orientation in space. During the performance, a dynamic projection mapping system cast visuals onto the semi-translucent screens in front of the singers motion capture allowed the position of the projections to be calibrated automatically moment by moment. The real magic, however, happened on the fly. The illusion began with preproduction, including an elaborate 3-D scan of the Austin venue and another of Perfume running through their performance. The video involves several “tricks,” as Manabe puts it. None of it was done in post-production.Ī peek behind the scenes.Click to Open Overlay GalleryĪ peek behind the scenes. The whole thing demanded a small army of designers, engineers, and artists. The technical bits were overseen by Daito Manabe of the bleeding edge design crew Rhizomatiks. The performance was produced by Kaoru Sugano, the famed creative director of the Japanese ad company Dentsu. Mikiko, of the dance group Elevenplay, was responsible for the the stage show, visuals, and and choreography. I’ve watched it about a hundred times and I still have no idea what’s going on. It’s a fever dream of atoms and pixels and photons. This thing is an ecstatic vision beamed back from a future in which the physical and digital have converged to the point of being utterly indistinguishable. It’s lightyears beyond any sort of audiovisual spectacle I can think of, really. It’s lightyears beyond straightforward projection mapping. LET’S GET RIGHT down to it: This SXSW performance by Japanese pop trio Perfume is the most amazing thing I’ve seen in a long time. Where else could the technology be implemented? While the primary applications for Vital Vioare healthcare and catering environments, the company also suggest implementing it in hotels, gyms and public restrooms - anywhere that bacteria can easily thrive and spread. Vital Vio offers 90 percent disinfection after just one and a half hours rising to 99.9 percent after 16 hours. Vital Vio can even work with customers to create modified protection - adjusting the color temperature to best suit their environment. The system uses precision control of LEDs, and integrates the invisible cleansing into white light. Once in place, the system can remain on around-the-clock, providing continuous protection from bacteria such as MRSA, E.Coli and Salmonella for patients and staff. Vital Vio’s disinfectant lighting can be installed in thirty minutes anywhere there is a light fixture. Offering a new solution, Vital Vio is a disinfectant lighting which can reduce harmful micro-organisms by up to 99.9 percent, using harmless white light from specialized overhead light fixtures. In the past, UV lighting and chemicals have been used to disinfect fragile areas, but both of these options are unsafe for continuous use. In certain workplaces, especially hospitals and restaurant kitchens, regular levels of bacteria are unsafe. Vital Vio disinfectant lighting reduces harmful micro-organisms in bacteria-sensitive environments such as hospitals and kitchens.
