VIRTUAL PRODUCTION
Virtual Production — The LED Volume at Litewave Studios
An LED Volume for in-camera virtual production in St. Petersburg, Florida — 192 panels of HoloDeck 2.6i, VIVE Mars camera tracking, and real-time Unreal Engine media. Pixel Rain is the virtual-production partner.
Pixel Rain is the ongoing technical partner at Litewave Studios — a working LED Volume in St. Petersburg, Florida that fuses real and virtual worlds in-camera. We run the virtual-production stack and help maintain the Volume infrastructure itself. Actors perform in front of a wall of LED rather than a green screen, with the virtual environment rendered live and tracked to the camera, so what the lens sees is what ends up on screen. Productions have shot on the stage continuously since 2022.
The stack
192 panels of HoloDeck 2.6i with PantaBlack V4 high-contrast LED. VIVE Mars for camera tracking. Aximetry for media serving and processing. Unreal Engine and disguise for real-time set extension, AR overlay, and lens calibration. Pixel Rain owns the camera-tracking system and the GPU server that drive the volume. Pixel Rain is also an official VIVE Mars reseller.
What we do
We operate the virtual-production side of the stage — integrating the LED wall, camera tracking, and real-time media into a single gen-locked pipeline, so productions can shoot final-pixel environments in-camera. Real-time set extension, in-camera visual effects, and virtual sets, on a stage fifteen minutes from Tampa.
By the numbers
192
LED PANELS
4K
OUTPUTS
15 MIN
FROM TAMPA
Partners
Litewave Media · stage operator, studio.
Pixel Rain Digital · virtual-production + ongoing technical partner.
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