The CoSTAR LiveLAB located at Production Park near Wakefield is part of CoSTAR: Convergent screen technologies and performance in real time – a £75.6m national research and development network of laboratories that are developing new technology to maintain the UK’s world-leading position in gaming, TV, film, performance, and digital entertainment sectors. The facilities available are listed below.
Future Venues Stage
Audio System
- 28-Channel L-Acoustics L-ISA system
- Dante audio backbone
- Driven from Allen & Heath desk
Lighting System
- Fresnels, Spots, Washes and Colour Profiles from Elation and Chauvet
- Chamsys control surface
Motion Capture System
- 10-camera Vicon markerless system
- Marker-based cameras for prop tracking
Staging & Trussing
- 4m x 6m stage
- Truss suspended above the stage and audience area housing cameras, lighting and loudspeaker arrays
Networked Performance Laboratories
Isolation booths
- High acoustic performance isolation booths
Audio
- Dante audio backbone with hardware from Ferrofish and Allen & Heath
- 16-channel Genelec audio systems with embedded Dolby Atmos arrays
Motion Tracking
- 12-camera Vicon marker-based system for head, body and prop tracking
User Experience Laboratory
Biometric Sensors
- Heart rate sensors
- Camera-based face tracking
Audio System
- Immersive loudspeaker array
Camera Tracking
- Integrated into our Vicon marker-based tracking architecture
Experimental Capability
Biometric Sensors
- Heart rate sensors for scalable audience tracking
Backline
- Full, silent-stage backline for in house evaluation of our systems
High Performance Computing
- Machines dedicated to video and game engine rendering
- Machines dedicated to AI and machine learning
Network Infrastructure
- Dedicated 5G network provided by BT
- High-performance PicOS-based network infrastructure
