Virtual production set: cinema camera and monitors with performers in period costume against green screen and atmospheric lighting

Virtual Production Partners • District Cinema

Welcome to the Era of the
SMART STUDIO

Empowering filmmakers, educators, and creators with high-velocity production pipelines that evolve alongside the most innovative technologies in M&E.

Key technology partners

Validated tools and platforms we work with in the lab.

  • Beeble AI

    Video-to-VFX & AI lighting

  • XGrids

    3D reconstruction & spatial computing

  • Lightcraft Technology

    Virtual production & Jetset

  • Captury

    Markerless motion capture

Our Mission

We are the place where the tools of today are validated for the creators of tomorrow.

The VPX Lab is an ecosystem designed for the Research, Development, Education, and Deployment of innovative production technologies. We operate at the intersection of cinematic tradition and virtual evolution, ensuring the M&E industry moves with velocity and precision.

Virtual production stage with blue screen, cinema camera on dolly track, lighting, and crew

High Velocity Pipeline

Cheap iteration is a creative advantage—these six capabilities are how you buy runway to experiment.

Together they lower the cost of trying, measuring, and revising so build–measure–learn lives in the work, not only in the spreadsheet.

  • Worlds & performance — reality capture, ultralight simulcam, and markerless MoCap put environments and actors in play before burn rate spikes.
  • Throughput & look — pipeline automation and any time lighting keep versions and lighting decisions fast enough to riff.
  • Finish & feedback — generative compositing tightens the loop from idea to comp so the next pass starts sooner.
Photogrammetry and reality capture for fast environmental builds
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Reality Capture

Handheld camera on green screen stage; monitor shows live simulcam composite of performer in a virtual interior
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Ultralight Simulcam

Markerless motion capture session: two performers with live skeletal tracking overlaid, viewed on a studio monitor with capture software UI
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Markerless MoCap

Cinematic on-set lighting and look development with any time lighting
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Any Time Lighting

First-frame key from composited fight beat — generative compositing and real-time iteration
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Generative Compositing

Pipeline automation for repeatable build and delivery cycles
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Pipeline Automation

What we do

VP crew calibrating cameras and lighting on a blue cyclorama virtual production stage

R&D & Validation

Strict empirical testing of hardware and software solutions. We validate the tools so you can produce without technical friction.

Behind-the-scenes tour group learning on a blue box virtual production stage

Filmmaker Education

Bridging the knowledge gap. We provide the training necessary for filmmakers and educators to master virtual production workflows.

Coming soon
Stylized 3D figure rolling hard equipment cases through a grand Las Vegas resort lobby

Smart Deployment

Crafting scalable studio infrastructures that grow with your project, from indie creators to massive enterprise productions.

Coming soon

Key production partners

Rental, sales, and on-set craft partners that keep productions lit, equipped, and moving.

  • LUX Lighting LLC

    Cinema lighting rental & sales

  • ABLE CINE

    Cinema equipment & workflow

Inquiries

Build your studio with us.