O2 Arena: Volumetric AR Experience with Michael Bublé

Overview

Brand
O2

Technology
Augmented Reality

Platform
Mobile

Industry
Music

Release Date
2018

Introduction

The O2 Arena wanted to promote Michael Bublé's latest tour through their app in an innovative way. Magnopus used volumetric capture technology to create an augmented reality version of the Canadian singer, allowing fans to take selfies and videos with a 3D video avatar of him on their smartphones.

“You’ll be able to take a selfie with me [...] It’s nearly as good as the real thing!”

Michael Bublé

The brief

The O2 Arena, the former millennium dome, is London’s premier entertainment venue. With a mission to get fans excited before, during, and after shows, the venue wanted to promote megastar Michael Bublé’s latest tour through its app in a forward-thinking and innovative way.

The solution

Using volumetric capture technology, fans of Michael Bublé experienced a world-first: an augmented reality version of the Canadian hitmaker. They were given the ability to take selfies and videos with a 3D video avatar of the singer on their smartphones.

For a limited time, via the O2 app, users could pose with the Bublé avatar as they would in real life, via a choice of four unique experiences. After appearing in a puff of smoke on the smartphone screen, the avatar either beckoned you over, kissed you, or proposed on one knee.

The avatar could also be pivoted, scaled, and rotated depending on the surrounding environment, meaning everyone could get the perfect shot ready to upload to social media, whether at home, at work, or at the gig.

Volumetric 3D capture technology consisting of an array of 106 high resolution and infrared cameras recorded the shape and detail from every angle, to create a fully 3D video avatar of Bublé. This experience was the first time fans were able to get such a life-like interaction with a music star.