With the UK’s election finally underway, Sky News has revealed its election night coverage will be broadcast from the studio usually employed for Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football.
The 360-degree immersive studio features an LED floor and walls, which Sky News intends to use to help tell the story of election night on 4th July.
The exit poll and winner of the race for Number 10 will be revealed with the help of an immersive to-scale augmented reality Downing Street.
The studio made its debut in August 2023 as part of Sky’s Monday Night Football coverage.
The studio is arena-shaped surrounded by high resolution screens and immersive AR graphics; an AR stadium canopy above and a “fourth wall” that conceals camera positions to create a 360-degree filming environment.
It includes an array of Grass Valley cameras, a jib and a wire cam, Mo-Sys Star Trackers, Vizrt graphics playout system, with a graphics rendering system from Unreal and Vizrt.
Set construction was carried out by ScenaPro, with AV from WhiteLight. LED features include ROE Ruby 1.9mm and 2.3mm LED tiles and ROE ‘Black Marble’ LED floor tiles.
A video of Burley taking over the studio is available here.
