Volumetric Video Editor by Lifecast

Unlike traditional volumetric capture systems that focus inward on a single subject, Lifecast's software enables you to captures an entire immersive scene with both foreground and background. Whether you're are a building an immersive mixed reality experience, or creating 3D background environments for virtual production in Unreal, Lifecast offers a state-of-the-art solution for photorealistic volumetric capture, editing, and deployment.

Unlike other methods, Lifecast doesn't rely on limited-resolution depth sensors. Instead, it seamlessly integrates with VR180 cameras, such as the Canon EOS R5, that offer a wider field of view and greater resolution. These off-the-shelf cameras can be used in any environment, giving you the freedom to unleash your creativity.

Powered by cutting-edge machine learning and 3D geometric computer vision, Lifecast's Volumetric Video Editor reconstructs a 3D model for every frame of your video. The software then efficiently compresses it into a standard video file format, ready to be deployed on the web using JavaScript, WebXR, or in popular game engines like Unreal or Unity.

Features

• Input VR180 photo or video (side-by-side stereoscopic, equirectangular projection).
• Export Lifecast's LDI3 format for volumetric video or photos
• Lifecast LDI3 is compatible with our open-source volumetric video players for Unreal, Unity, and javascript
• Export WebXR projects for Looking Glass holographic glasses-free 3D displays
• Export textured OBJ
• Proprietary stereo depth estimation for fisheye lenses, robust to calibration error
• Temporally stabilized depth estimation
• Depth-based decomposition into layers for inpainting
• Temporally stabilized inpainting
• Automatically encode and h264, h265, ProRes for editing or distrubition on web, mobile, and VR
• Real-time 3D viewer for LDI3 volumetric videos and photos
• View color, depth, and alpha channels for each layer
• Edit depth maps and alpha channels for a single frame
• Copy color, alpha, or depth channels in selected region to other video frames

Pricing

• Non-Commercial License - $7.99/month per machine/user/seat. For non-commercial use only.
• Professional License - $129/month per machine/user/seat. For non-broadcast use only (use for Cable TV, Netflix, Hulu, etc. is prohibited).
• Broadcast License - Unlimited license for broadcast use.
• Download volumetric video editor for Mac and Windows

Notes

• Requires Mac OS X 13.0, or Windows 11 and NVidia GPU with at least 8GB VRAM
• Deep learning models run on CPU on Mac build.
• Stable diffusion inpainting is currently available only via Lifecast's cloud rendering service. Volumetric video editor for Mac/Windows uses a different inpainting algorithm.