Green Screen and Virtual Reality

Green Screen and Virtual Reality
By Phillip G.

Green screen is the key technology that makes Virtual Reality (VR) possible today. What is green screen? Green screen is a screen that’s the color green placed in the background of a studio set while the foreground scenes are filmed. This will allow the creator to add any type of background they desire to create a special effect. How is this done?

Once they are finished filming the scene the film is taken to the editing room and the color green is deleted from the film, and the desire background effect is added to the film. What this does is it provides the feeling of action occurring on the film. The green screen is not always green. Sometimes blue or white is used if the surfaced screen has a color conflict with the foreground. Green doesn’t go well with certain colors like yellow or people with blonde hair, and certain shades of color similar to green. The reason the color isn’t used is during the editing process, all of the green is removed, and it will also remove the colors similar to it, leaving holes in the foreground in place of the foreground image. It is also very important to have the correct lighting and all shiny objects removed or dull to prevent problems during the editing process. Plus the cameraman shouldn’t be allowed to use the sharpening feature on his camera to prevent flaws in the green surfaced screen from appearing in the film. The computer used during editing will allow for all necessary sharpening.

What is Virtual Reality? Virtual Reality allows a live person to enter an imaginary scene and take part in the scene’s action providing the feel of reality. This is made possible with the use of a green screen which allows the designer of Virtual Reality to add his own background to create the desire effect. Creating the virtual reality effect requires the use of a professional green surfaced screen studio to accommodate for a successful creation of the Virtual Reality. Some of these green screen equipped studios are based in Los Angeles and each one has its own specialty.

Some studios specialize in creating Virtual reality games and simulators with their green surfaced screen studios. One studio in LA specializes in the creation and production of special effects for film which would be near impossible without green screen technology. This studio came about when their founders decide to get involve with production of special effects using green surfaced screen. You can also find studios that focus on training, market branding and entertainment company. One of the applications of Virtual Reality use is creating simulators which provides the user a feeling they are actually taking part like flying an airplane or a passenger on an airplane.

A famous Hollywood actress had a fear of flying as a passenger on an airplane. She was place in a custom design flight simulation as a passenger and allow the experience of take offs and landings of an airplane to help her overcome her fear of flying.

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