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Virtual Production
Volker Helzle, Oliver Grau, and Thomas
Knop
23.1 Introduction
The concept of producing digital media content with software operated on
affordable workstations has been established during the last two decades.
It was mainly influenced by the gain of processing power and is applied in
disciplines like visual effects (VFX), 3D character animation, visualization,
simulation, or videos games, to name a few. The majority of work, however,
is carried out in an offline process which separates the artist from other
members of the creative team.
The concept of virtual production foresees to combine key aspects of
media production in a real-time, or close to real-time, environment where
creative decisions can be taken in direct consultation with