LG Opens Its First Virtual Production Studio

LG virtual production studio
(Image credit: LG)

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J.—LG Electronics USA has opened a new in-house, state-of-the-art virtual production studio at its 360,000-square-foot North American headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. that the company is describing as the consumer electronics industry’s first in-house virtual studio.

The facility will allow LG to create compelling content for its extensive product portfolios while achieving substantial savings on production costs and timescales. It will also reduce environmental impact and reliance on public spaces for production, LG reported.

“The new LG Virtual Production Studio will allow our product and marketing teams to commission content with scalability, efficiency and volume,” said Chris Jung, President and CEO of LG Electronics North America, who oversees all company divisions using the new space. “The studio provides a vivid, real-world demonstration of how LG digital production technology can be used to enhance creativity, increase flexibility, and achieve unprecedented new levels of efficiency for us and for our customers.”

The facility is a collaboration between LG and its affiliate creative agency HSAD. The LG Virtual Production Studio integrates LG’s own commercial LED display technology to create a 1.5-pixel-pitch display that spans two walls, allowing for immersive, cost-effective, and flexible content creation. It also leverages innovative partner technologies including Megapixel’s HELIOS LED Processing Platform and the Mo-Sys Camera Tracking Solutions/Server.

LG recently acquired an interest in Mo-Sys, a developer of virtual production solutions and camera robotics.

The facility integrates LG’s LED displays and controllers with Mo-Sys’s XR (extended reality) products and systems to create a total solution for XR.

In addition, the studio’s HELIOS Platform from Megapixel allows multiple users to control colorimetry, tone mapping, gamut adjustments, and camera integration features in real time without the need for additional software.

Unlike traditional studio setups, the studio enables rapid content production, reducing build times from days to hours. The technology, including parallax motion and real-time rendering, enhances believability and adaptability, and the studio’s launch aims to increase LG’s content output, improve efficiency, and reduce costs. Future plans include episodic content and potential partnerships with other brands, highlighting LG’s and HSAD’s innovative approach to content creation.

“This breakthrough production studio, enabled by LG’s advanced commercial display technology, now allows LG to craft compelling content designed to evoke aspirational feelings around its entire product line, boosting both its appeal and marketability, all while keeping costs down,” explained HSAD USA president Scott Lee. “We can produce more compelling content faster, with greater flexibility and cost-efficiency than ever before. LG content production teams are better equipped to scale output, meet demand, and be first to market – without relying on costly external resources and physical locations.”

Because production is done virtually, the studio eliminates the need for costly and wasteful physical set production and the utilization of public indoor or outdoor spaces, reducing the impact of production on the environment, LG reported.

The LG Virtual Production Studio includes a 25-foot, two-wall display designed around two 1.5- pixel-pitch LG MAGNIT Studio Series LBAG015 direct-view Micro LED displays – 13-by-8-foot and 8-by-4-foot displays – positioned at a 90-degree angle. The fine pixel pitch of the Studio Series allows for cost savings because creative backgrounds and special effects can be displayed closer to cameras in this modestly-sized (about 1,000-square-foot) fixed-location studio. By comparison, LED displays with wider pixel pitches require much larger studio spaces as cameras must be positioned further from the displays so that the pixels aren’t visible to maintain image detail.

Operating as an in-house agency for LG Electronics, HSAD is a global, full-service marketing and creative services agency with offices located in major cities around the world.

More information about LG Studio Series LBAG Direct View Micro LED displays, is available here.

George Winslow

George Winslow is the senior content producer for TV Tech. He has written about the television, media and technology industries for nearly 30 years for such publications as Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel News and TV Tech. Over the years, he has edited a number of magazines, including Multichannel News International and World Screen, and moderated panels at such major industry events as NAB and MIP TV. He has published two books and dozens of encyclopedia articles on such subjects as the media, New York City history and economics.

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