MTV Video Music Awards - XR Environment & Broadcast Package

MTV Video Music Awards

2020

XR Hosting Environment & Broadcast Package

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XR Hosting Environment & Broadcast Package

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One of the biggest musical entertainment shows of the year, the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, aired on August 30 and was the first major American Awards Show created in Mixed Reality in 2020. The main hosting environment was an XR stage was created by Silent Partners as well as the broadcast package.The design of the house look was a technical challenge in the world of mixed reality for broadcast with the need to integrate virtual doors, pre-shot crowds on the rooftops of the virtual city and multiple zoom feeds in windows, as well as nominee packages and broadcast images into the billboards, into a single scene, in real time.

Show Team

Show Creation / Creative Direction
‍Paul Caslin

XR Production
‍XR Studios

Production Design
Julio Himede
Yellow Studio

VMAs Video Director
Sam Wrench

VMAs Video Producer
Trevor Burke & Visual Noise

Lighting Designer
Tom Sutherland
Jon Kusner

Video / XR Content Producer
Silent Partners Studio

Screen Producer
J.T. Rooney – Silent Partners Studio

Realtime Rendering Notch
Equipment Vendor Fuse Technical Group

Media Server Disguise
GX2C