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Pixelmondo's state-of-the-art LED display volume offers an immersive and efficient solution for virtual production, eliminating green screens and providing highly realistic environments for filmmaking and simulations.

• Pixelmondo's LED display volume revolutionizes virtual production by replacing green screens with immersive, high-resolution digital environments.

• The system integrates advanced movable LED walls and ceilings, a powerful hydraulic motion platform for vehicle simulation, and precise camera robotics.

• High-performance computing with synchronized GPUs and precise network infrastructure ensures seamless, real-time rendering and operation.

Pixelmondo has developed a cutting-edge LED display volume, essentially massive walls of LED screens, designed to immerse actors and vehicles in virtual worlds without traditional green screens. This technology significantly streamlines onset lighting and post-production by eliminating color tinting issues. The system features advanced motion platforms, synchronized high-performance computing, and precision camera robotics to create dynamic and highly realistic production environments.

The Display Volume

• 00:01:41 A display volume is a massive LED screen setup that allows filmmakers to transport actors and vehicles into new virtual worlds, bypassing the need for green screens. This innovative approach simplifies onset lighting and eliminates post-production color correction, leading to a more immersive experience for talent. Pixelmondo's volume boasts impressive resolutions, with the main back wall nearly 8K, the top approximately 6K by 3K, and sides around 2K by 2K, all powered by scenes created in Unreal Engine 5 (UE5).

Modular & Movable Components

• 00:03:02 The LED display volume features highly modular and movable components, including side walls weighing one megagram each, which can be repositioned using an 80 PSI air-lift system. The entire ceiling display is mounted on a giant gantry, allowing it to be moved for flexible lighting setups or precise reflections on objects like car windshields. These modular designs, though sometimes showing seams, enable custom configurations, improved manufacturability, and easier serviceability due to small, replaceable sub-modules.

The Motion Platform

• 00:11:18 The heart of the PIXO Acura system is a massive hydraulic motion platform capable of simulating complex vehicle movements through 16 physical axes. This system uses six hydraulic legs to tilt objects up to 12 degrees and move them side-to-side or up-and-down by 26 centimeters, with current rotation capabilities of eight spins, soon to be unlimited. Individual wheels can also be manipulated by 2.2-kilowatt rollers for speed simulation and 3.5-kilowatt 'doinkers' to mimic bumpy terrain, all powered by dual 75-horsepower electric motors pumping hydraulic fluid at 2400 PSI.

Advanced Computing & Sync

• 00:15:18 The entire display volume is powered by a robust server room, each node containing two Nvidia AIDA 6000 GPUs, a Threadripper CPU, 256GB of quad-channel memory, and 8 terabytes of high-speed NVM-e storage. A critical component is the use of synchronization cards that ensure all GPUs communicate and render frames precisely at the same time, preventing screen tearing. This synchronization is so exact that it uses a GPS antenna outside the building for atomic clock-level precision.

Connectivity & Power

• 00:18:20 Data flows from the server room to the display wall via fiber optic cables bundled in orange split looms, signifying fiber inside. These connect to a patch panel that then routes to Netgear AV line switches. These switches take a 10-gigabit link and split it into 12 2.5-gigabit links, each powering half of a column of display panels, daisy-chained along the wall. Power for the panels is handled separately by thick cables, while some POE++ switches also power the motion capture camera system, integrating all elements into a cohesive production environment.