If I talk about 3D movie, most people know about Avatar —— 3D and CG movie, the anaglyphic movie which was directed by James Cameron, and shown in theatres on Dec. 16, 2009 in North America Countries.

So it's been 13 long years since the first Avatar movie was relased, and passed through nearly 3-year global COVID affecting, now finally, after years of waiting, Avatar 2 is scheduled to premiere on December 16, 2022.

Firstly let's preview 3D history in each gap year what had happend;

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You can see that 3D comes to family users year by year. While is there any challenge for 3D films making caused by COVID or anyting else enviromental effects? The answer is "NO".

Limitless Films Making Trend

XR is one of the trendiest and most recent flavours of Virtual Reality, especially when combined with LED display video walls, that provide alternatives to traditional chroma keying. Recent vitural productions have taken advantage of this technology, and broadcasters are increasingly using it for live shows.

Extended Reality (XR), defined as the combination of real and virtual environments. Filmmaking industry, Digital filmmakers, or Digital media producers, incorporate the use of LEDs, lighting, real-life photographs, camera angles, and many other factors to create something that appears to be 3D. XR is best way to capture scenes and helps to film in a real-world setting, which takes out the factors of weather, recreating backgrounds, and other time-related tasks by simply being generated and displayed using computer software.

In the last 2 years of research and technolgoy develop, AET sticks to typical broadcast and film content production to make films production things simpler. Finally on Novemeber 3th, 2022, we lauched the 2K、4K 10meters cinema screen with DCI-P3 standard.

DCI-P3 Standard 

When using AET's LED displays DCI-P3 Chroma set as vitural production background/floor, the camera captures the combined image of the background rendering and the characters, and achieves a given true-to-life result at the same time. DCI-P3 color gamut has greater advantages especailly  in restoring 4K HDR film and more accurate color restoration.

*DCI-P3, sometimes casually referred to as P3 or Display P3, stands for Digital Cinema Initiatives - Protocol 3 and is a color space, or set of colors, created by the Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) and Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineer (SMPTE) in an attempt to standardize the colors used in the film industry.

(color space comparison bettwen DCI-P3, sRGB, Adobe RGB or any other -- dictated by its triangle on the CIE 1931 XY Chromaticity Diagram)

DCI-P3 vs sRGB  

DCI-P3 offers a greater range of colors than sRGB offers. Because of the additional colors they afford compared to sRGB monitors, monitors that can portray the DCI-P3 color space are getting increasingly common, and even screens geared toward content made in sRGB are gaining DCI-P3 support, offering images that look extra saturated with color.

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Clearly refined visuals

Except allowing you to enjoy the extra colors HDR content can possess. DCI-P3 can use 16bit color compared to sRGB's 8-bit, which is essential for HDR without banding and clearly. High fresh rate ≥ 3840Hz Dynamic Peaking and Inverse Tone Mapping enhance content to optimum peak brightness 48nit levels with improved contrast 5000:1 and without shine, while in-depth Color Mapping ensures an accurate expression of colors. Through a unique algorithm DCP technology that maintains R/G/B gradation 170° view angle and delivers precise, detail-rich hues in low-brightness indoor environments.

Stable performance and cost saving installation

The all-in-one design, Integrated Power Board including power supply, receiving card, hub board in one board, that no need external devices, which offers cost saving installation for filmmaking industry, digital filmmakers, or digital media producers. Additionaly, the High-precision die casting aluminum structure with HRC12 protection level and IP67 anti-water and anti-dust level which provides stable performance display for a long term.

Fast Operation, one-button ON/OFF

Plug-and-Play operation, remote control, TV-set user experience; Free adjustment settings: brightness, volume, color temperature, contrast, picture proportion, signal source switching, etc; Support USB and HDMI port input.

Wireless Screen Mirroring and Safe Guarantee

Multiple protection of software and hardware,from the moment of receiving the source till the actual phrase of playing the movie; The screen is still being monitored during the whole process, even when the power is off/malfunction. Monitoring data is constantly being uploaded to ensure the safety of the data as well as the screen. AET’s film screens adopted the application of internet, such as remote online operation and maintenance. Including remotely switch on/off the screen,remotely playback control and log management.All of the above technologies are here to safeguard the data, signal, screen and playback of the film.

As the brilliant color and visual effect of DCI-P3 standard in LEDs display walls, there are many more applications for LED-based XR production which outperform chroma set production. Starting with live virtual sets displayed in the LED walls so not only the audience at home can see it, but also the live audience on a physical show or event can see it.