Camera tracking in Virtual Production is a wild west with multiple proprietary protocols, making it difficult to achieve true interoperability between technologies. This makes Virtual Production systems and stages complex, costly, and time-consuming to integrate. Standardization in this arena is desperately needed and long overdue.
OpenTrackIO is a free and open source protocol designed by the SMPTE RIS OSVP group that seeks to improve interoperability in Virtual Production by standardizing communications of camera tracking, lens encoding, and robotic systems.
Steve Rosenbluth - Concept Overdrive Inc
Marcus Bengtsson - Original Syndicate
Ramiro Montes De Oca - Kino Flo
Current pain points in Virtual Production systems
Why OpenTrackIO is needed
How OpenTrackIO was collaboratively developed
The OpenTrackIO data models and transport mechanisms
OpenTrackIO and its place in the SMPTE 2110 suite
A deep-dive into an OpenTrackIO sample packet
The OpenLensIO mathematical model
How to get started implementing OpenTrackIO
The future of OpenTrackIO and how to get involved