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9 hours ago, HSV cheesehead said:

I wonder if they are going to invest more in their augmented reality sets/improve on them with these renovations to the main studio. Speaking of which, are any parts of their AR sets physically real?

It's just one big green screen room, essentially. There's no physical elements used, at least not in any of the live stuff.

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11 hours ago, HSV cheesehead said:

I wonder if they are going to invest more in their augmented reality sets/improve on them with these renovations to the main studio. Speaking of which, are any parts of their AR sets physically real?

 

Half of The Weather Channel's main studio is hard set while the rest is a massive chroma key area for their Immersive Mixed Reality (IMR) segments. There are no physical elements over in the chroma area as everything on screen is computer-generated.

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19 hours ago, Georgie56 said:

The digital meteorologists have been laid off (the TV mets are staying).

 

 

 

Looks like this is probably an effect of IBM selling The Weather Company to private equity. Looks like the deal closed on Feb 1st, and just like that, the digital mets were gone after only one month.

 

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240201709190/en/Francisco-Partners-Completes-Acquisition-of-The-Weather-Company

 

It's a shame for everyone who lost their job in this process. :(

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On 3/25/2024 at 2:20 PM, Spring Rubber said:

Looks like this is probably an effect of IBM selling The Weather Company to private equity. Looks like the deal closed on Feb 1st, and just like that, the digital mets were gone after only one month.

 

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240201709190/en/Francisco-Partners-Completes-Acquisition-of-The-Weather-Company

 

It's a shame for everyone who lost their job in this process. :(

Damn shame. I'm amazed at how people do this too - just stand in the middle of a bunch of green and they're able to maneuver the screen and all the apps and coherently give a forecast. Maybe we'll all get used to it with AR in the future

 

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