The XR Studio serves as a broadcast production partner for national networks. Camera tracking, real-time environments, and the LED volume let a network reach a subject matter expert without flying a crew, and place that expert inside the subject they are discussing.
The studio operates on network timelines and network standards. Segments go live from Baton Rouge into national programming.
NBC Universal
Special segment, twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, 2025
The XR Studio produced a special news segment marking twenty years since Hurricane Katrina, distributed nationally by NBC Universal. Twenty years on, the storm remains the defining event in Louisiana's relationship to risk, and the anniversary coverage returned to what the region learned and what it still has not solved.
FOX Weather
Recurring live segments with LSU faculty experts
The studio originates live segments for FOX Weather, connecting LSU faculty to national audiences from Baton Rouge. Hurricane climatologist Jill Trepanier has appeared repeatedly across the network's hurricane season coverage, discussing Atlantic forecasts, ocean temperatures, and storm risk on the Gulf Coast.
Real-time virtual backgrounds place each expert inside the weather they are describing. Segments run inside Hurricane HQ and Countdown to Hurricane Season programming, with named storm counts and major storm probability on screen alongside the researcher interpreting them.
For a coastal state, hurricane forecasting is not abstract. The studio gives Louisiana's researchers a direct line to the national audience during the season that matters most.