PICO launches the first 360° 3D immersive VR history and humanities program 'I Was At That Moment'

Recently, PICO Video launched the platform’s first 360° 3D immersive VR historical and cultural program "I Was At That Moment". The program is co-directed by directors Xu Yiren and Gu Jiapeng, starring Zeng Xueyao, Qi Yuchen, and Wang Ziyun. It contains three episodes of "Xi Shi Chapter", "Wang Zhaojun Chapter" and "Yang Guifei Chapter". Wearing the PICO VR all-in-one machine, users can travel to the Spring and Autumn Period, the Western Han Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty, meet the beauties of the country in the virtual space, and experience history and culture up close.

Since its launch on April 29, the number of user reservations and views of the program on PICO videos have hit new highs. Audiences have given high praise on social platforms after watching the program: "Observed under VR vision The characters' performances and dialogues, the space has tension, and it also has a refreshing feeling."

Technology and art, opening up VR cross-time and space dialogue

As the world's leading XR platform, PICO continues to innovate based on its technology accumulation in the entire process of VR recording, VR content creation and VR all-in-one terminal playback. While expanding content types, PICO is also empowering traditional Chinese culture to breathe new life and allow history to be reproduced. In the latest "I Was At That Moment", PICO adopts a "technical art" narrative method, subverting the shooting techniques and experience of traditional costume dramas, truly allowing the audience to immerse themselves in it, and complete the time-traveling through ancient and modern times from a first-person perspective dialogue.

Different from other VR videos, "I Was At That Moment" pioneered new perspectives such as 360° 3D content lifting and movement based on the use of traditional film and television production techniques. At the same time, it also uses real-life and virtual means to productize the movie-watching experience, build a virtual study space with all-season content, and use time-travel to change the surrounding scenes, thereby seamlessly entering into content interpretation. The audience can not only appreciate the texture of ancient costume film and television works, but also get a more immersive visual enjoyment, and it is easier to immerse themselves in the historical scenes created by the program. "The VR first-person perspective is like chatting with Yang Yuhuan," the audience after watching the show commented.

In addition, based on the performance advantages of PICO VR all-in-one spatial audio, the PICO creative team perfectly integrated spatial audio, performance scheduling and lighting narrative during shooting and post-production, allowing users to better immerse themselves in those hidden stories. In the history in the classics, you can experience the stories behind the beauties.

Follow historical facts and make history “alive”

In addition to polishing the audio and video to enhance the immersion of the content, the creative team of "I Was At That Moment" also conducted careful research on the scenes and actors' costumes based on historical facts, taking into account both viewing and historical aspects. Orthodoxy, aiming to spread Chinese history and culture more accurately. For example, in "Xi Shi Chapter", the creative team reviewed a large number of historical materials and documents, studied the aesthetic characteristics of women's clothing in the Zhao Kingdom, and created art based on following the clothing shapes of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods to showcase the unique charm of Chinese clothing culture. .

In recent years, new technologies represented by VR virtual reality have played an increasingly important role in the protection and inheritance of traditional culture. "I Was At That Moment" is an important attempt at "experiential cultural education", which allows the audience to immerse themselves in the environmental content, "see the scene" through visual restoration, the narrator guides "listening to the story", and the knowledge points "learn this way", etc. Participate in historical and humanistic content in various ways. In addition, PICO also worked with ByteDance Charity to launch the VR documentary "Travel Notes on Ancient Books" in collaboration with China's First Historical Archives, the Dunhuang Academy, the Gansu Slip Museum, and the National Library (National Museum of Classical Books). By wearing the PICO VR all-in-one machine, the audience can have a conversation with Nan Huairen and learn about the legacy of the astronomical calendar. They can even become a border guard in the Han Dynasty, experiencing the dangers of frontier life and the passion to protect the homeland and the country...

For thousands of years, the form of recording and restoring history has always been updated and iterated. Relying on its 360-degree immersive experience, VR can restore history vividly in front of the audience, bringing unprecedented audio and video enjoyment. The main creative team of "I Was At That Moment" also hopes that the audience can feel the strong visual impact and 3D sense from the moment they put on the PICO VR all-in-one machine, so that they can immersively experience the lives of three beauties thousands of years ago. story. The product advantages of the PICO 4 series binocular 4K super-vision screens and 105-degree field of view can invisibly amplify the viewing pleasure and imagination of the content.

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