Röyksopp Live at HERE at Outernet

Imagine watching a live DJ set and all of a sudden, the venue doubles in size and there are three times more lights on the stage. That’s what the Dimension Live team did for Norwegian DJ duo Röyksopp.

Building on the success of our work for electronic artist Floating Points, Dimension Live once again teamed up with venue partner HERE at Outernet. This time we were tasked with delivering a whole show’s worth of virtual lighting and stage extension for the Röyksopp show.

“Our partnership with HERE at Outernet gave us this great opportunity to work with Röyksopp lighting designer David Ross to push the creative possibilities of virtual lighting as a seamless extension of an existing lighting package,” commented Mark Bustard, executive producer, Dimension Live.

For lighting designers, not only does our system increase the number of lighting fixtures available, but also opens up a wide range of opportunities to add in 3D assets, from photorealistic to abstract scenes. These can be VJ’d live from the lighting desk in the same way as the physical lights already in place, so it’s very quick for designers to pick up and work with.

This is all possible through Dimension building a digital twin of the venue in Unreal Engine, adding an accurate photo-realistic extension that’s seen by audiences in real-time on the stage’s LED screen. This extends the real world lighting scheme into the virtual extension, blurring the boundaries of real and digital space.

For HERE at Outernet we created an accurate digital twin, including rigging and truss, to which we added digital versions of the lighting fixtures. These included the venue’s wall-mounted LED striplights which push out from the stage into the venue. The quality of the digital twin, and the real-time rendering makes it incredibly difficult to see the difference between what’s real and what’s digital.

No other studio is offering anything like this virtual lighting system. Thanks to the team’s expertise in real-time tools and virtual production techniques, Dimension is bringing something very new and very unique to the world of live entertainment.

‘The work the team has done is a really impressive showcase of how real-time workflows and virtual effects and environments can take the live entertainment experience to the next level,’ commented Simon Windsor, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Dimension Studio.