The CoSTAR Realtime Lab is led by Abertay University with core partners:
- Water’s Edge Studio
- Codebase
- The University of Edinburgh
- Interface
- Scottish Enterprise
It will bring together video games development expertise in Dundee’s globally significant InGAME cluster with world-leading applied research and development (R&D) at Abertay, with the University of Edinburgh’s expertise in machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Video credit: AHRC
The Realtime Lab will place R&D side-by-side with live commercial production, offering routes to commercialisation and markets beyond most small and medium business (SME) networks. It will facilitate industry sector engagement, catalysing innovation in:
- performance and motion capture
- virtual humans and dynamic procedural performance
- machine learning for production and artificial intelligence for process reproduction
- artificial intelligence for dynamic effects and procedural graphics for visual effects
- advanced scanning technologies for 3D volume acquisition and ML/AI for procedural environment generation
- developing lighting and ray tracing standards to deliver environmental fidelity
- location-based software and hardware integration
- integrated virtual and real-world film and TV production
Last updated: 22 November 2023