The XR Studio at LSU
Real-time visualization, virtual production, and immersive performance
LSU's XR Studio is a cutting-edge real-time visualization center, XR laboratory, performance venue, and virtual production film studio.
Current projects include digital twins and simulations spanning NASA advanced manufacturing, biomedical training, and electron microscopy training, alongside motion capture and animation, spatial audio and experimental music, XR/AR/VR content creation, game design and production, image-based lighting, human-computer interaction, and virtual production.
We also produce innovative time-based media, music, and experimental performances, supported by a wavefield synthesis spatial audio system.
The studio recently completed a 4,800 square foot expansion. Read more about it here.
Our events perform in several venues across campus, including the Digital Media Center Theatre, which features a Meyer Sound Constellation and Cinema System, alongside the virtual production sound stage.
The studio has become a collaborative hub used by undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students from across campus, including digital art, computer science, engineering, electronic music, film, theatre, dance, and the humanities.
It features extensive performance, visualization, motion tracking, recording, scanning, and lighting equipment, plus a 22' x 10' LED wall configured to run real-time digital environments in engines such as Unreal or Unity, or 3D and video content from any software package.
The virtual production sound stage includes a volume control suite with workstations for rendering, capture, tracking, real-time compositing, and lighting, multiple cinema camera systems, DMX lighting driven directly from real-time 3D environments, five industry-standard editing and post-processing stations, and more.