OTOY, Paramount Game Studios and Roddenberry Entertainment
follow up with Roddenberry Archive experience produced at the
highest levels of fidelity and historical accuracy for the Apple
Vision Pro
LOS
ANGELES, Feb. 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- In
partnership with Paramount Game Studios and The Gene Roddenberry
Estate, OTOY is thrilled to unveil the 'The Archive' for the Apple
Vision Pro - launching on the App Store today in tandem with the
release of Apple's new spatial computing platform. The app marks a
major evolution of the Roddenberry Archive project, which had over
4-million visitors during a limited 3-week preview on the web in
April 2023.
The new Archive app immerses fans in nearly 2-hours of
groundbreaking Star Trek spatial experiences built
exclusively for the Apple Vision Pro, allowing them to explore
hundreds of fully realized locations, artifacts and unique items -
spanning every Star Trek TV show and film across the
franchise's nearly 60-year history. With only gaze and touch,
Vision Pro users can transport themselves instantly through
gorgeous immersive 3D environments traversing between different
eras of Star Trek from The Cage pilot to Star Trek: Lower
Decks. They can inspect each item on Captain Kirk's shelf, take
a seat at Quark's bar on the Deep Space Nine Promenade, or launch a
shuttle from the U.S.S. Enterprise-D's hangar bay. With
Apple SharePlay, a visit through the world of Star Trek can
also become a shared social experience that can be live streamed
with friends and family on.
Created exclusively for the Vision Pro app, a select number of
Star Trek assets are available as downloadable holographic
objects which can be placed in the user's home environment. These
models and sets can be shrunk or expanded from life size to
dollhouse scales while rendering at a fidelity and quiescence never
before possible on consumer hardware.
Audiences can play with the size and scale of the legendary
U.S.S Enterprise - enabling them to experience what it is
like to walk around the original 11-foot physical U.S.S
Enterprise model on display at the Smithsonian, or have the
in-universe 1:1 life size 1000-foot ship fly overhead.
OTOY concept videos and documentary films from recent
Roddenberry Archive releases have been remastered specifically for
the Vision Pro and are featured in the app along with newly
restored footage from the Roddenberry Archive - including previews
of the unabridged interviews with George
Lucas and Stan Lee exploring
Gene Roddenberry's influence on
Star Wars and Marvel.
Samples of OTOY's many years of collaboration with legendary
creators are also included in the archive, including content done
by OTOY in collaboration with Bruce
Timm in 2014 for Batman: The Animated Series.
The app's spatial content and streams were created by artists
and studios using the Render Network and OTOY's cutting-edge GPU
rendering tools, bringing the highest levels of unbiased
path-traced realism at unprecedented resolutions, powered by
thousands of decentralized GPUs in the cloud. The app
allows artists using OTOY's tools to load their own immersive media
creations on the Vision Pro and share it with others.
Featured in the Archive's native Vision Pro spatial content are
1-meter by 1-meter light field cubes that are displayed at
90-frames-per-second in 4K resolution
per eye, pushing the boundary on visual fidelity. Unbiased
rendering and light field baking enable audiences to experience
Star Trek worlds with fully path traced real time lighting,
including dynamic glossy reflections and shadows, bringing
revolutionary levels of photorealism to immersive content.
The Archive was developed using the Universal Scene Description
(USD) format as part of OTOY's membership in The Alliance for
OpenUSD – a group formed by Pixar and Apple, among others – that is
working to standardize the USD format across the industry to help
artists and developers create and deploy complex real-time 3D
experiences at scale.
"Through our multi-decade collaboration with OTOY, we have been
working to push the frontiers of immersive technology to fulfill my
father's legacy, creative intent, and ideas in ways that can be
experienced today and by generations yet to come." said
Rod Roddenberry, President of
Roddenberry Entertainment. "The Roddenberry Archive, as an
immersive experience on the Apple Vision Pro, is a remarkable
milestone in realizing my father's vision for the Holodeck. This
release also fulfills one of my mother's greatest wishes. She
recorded her phenoms in 2008 before her passing, to have her voice
live on in posterity. It is deeply moving for me to be able to have
her voice now narrate portions of the archive" added Roddenberry.
"I am also pleased that the archive can bring to life both
published and unrealized influential narrative works from Star
Trek's rich literary history, covering my father's one and only
Star Trek novel for the Star Trek: The Motion Picture in
1979 through the decades of books and comics that subsequently
followed."
"Today's release of the Archive app for the Vision Pro marks a
major step towards realizing Gene
Roddenberry's Holodeck" said CEO of OTOY, Jules Urbach. "Through Apple's breakthrough
Vision Pro spatial computing platform, we can bring audiences back
in time as if they were there on set during the making of Star
Trek for the first time, with full visual immersion and
historical accuracy" added Urbach.
The Archive's latest release of navigable spatial content can be
viewed as a live 2D stream on the web at https://roddenberry.x.io.
For a limited time, the complete experience is available for free
on both the web and the Vision Pro. Later this year, OTOY and
Paramount will offer users unlimited viewing time and a-la-carte
access to all current and future immersive Star Trek 3D
experiences released through The Archive.
About OTOY Inc.
OTOY Inc. is the definitive cloud graphics company, pioneering
technology that is redefining content creation and delivery for
media and entertainment organizations around the world. OTOY's
Academy Award®-winning technology is used by leading visual effects
studios, artists, animators, designers, architects, and engineers,
providing unprecedented creative freedom, new levels of realism,
and new economics in content creation and distribution powered by
the cloud. For more information, visit www.otoy.com.
Additional Resources:
- Read more about The Render Network here.
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About Paramount Consumer Products
Paramount Consumer Products oversees all licensing and
merchandising for Paramount (Nasdaq: PARA, PARAA), a leading global
media and entertainment company that creates premium content and
experiences for audiences worldwide. Driven by iconic consumer
brands, Paramount Consumer Products' portfolio includes a diverse
slate of brands and content from BET, CBS (including CBS Television
Studios and CBS Television Distribution), Comedy Central, MTV,
Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and SHOWTIME®. With properties
spanning animation, live-action, preschool, youth and adult,
Paramount Consumer Products is committed to creating the highest
quality product for some of the world's most beloved, iconic
franchises. To view our range of consumer products and Paramount
branded apparel, visit ParamountShop.com.
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