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This manual is intended for clients and partners who want to make their own computer
animated content for the Dreamoc system.
To achieve a good result, it is very important during production, to have samples of the
content evaluated by Realfiction or an authorised Realfiction partner.
Delivery Standards
The Dreamoc POP plays a WMV9 or MPEG2 type file. Other file formats might also work,
but are not described here. As a help we have made the “DreamocPOP_Template”, which
is a project for Adobe After Effects with the correct settings.
Basically:
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Mirrored image (everything will be mirrored in the display)
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Resolution 1024 x 576 square pixels (16:9).
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30 fps non-interlaced is recommended.
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A standard Dreamoc POP display does not have built-in speakers, and will
therefore not need sound, but it is possible to connect external speakers.
Animation Guidelines
First of all it’s important to remember, that content for the Dreamoc systems will be seen
as floating holographic objects inside a glass chamber.
To get the best possible 3D feeling it is recommended to:
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Apply a lot movement to all graphical elements. Everything static becomes flat.
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Apply some sort of rotation to objects and text to enhance the 3D feeling.
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Give objects a “floating” movement to enhance the illusion of a free-floating
holographic object.
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Place the camera according to the centre of the object to avoid a skewed
perspective.
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All text and logos should have some 3D depth.
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Avoid filling up the entire screen with video. It becomes a “full screen” format to look
at, and is no longer transparent and interesting to look at.
Light
Black is invisible in movies shown in a Dreamoc
POP (or 100% transparent), and
gradients close to black are hard to see. A dark shadow on the object might therefore be
seen as a hole in the object.
It is recommended to:
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Give the object(s) a more even light than you normally would, avoiding too many
and too hard shadows.
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Give the object(s) a bit more light than you normally would, allowing the holographic
object to appear more vivid and clear.
