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106 cameras 10 gigabytes per second of raw data and a whole lot of studio lights this is how you make a hologram here at microsoft's mixed reality capture studio they're making volumetric 3d content to watch in virtual reality or augmented reality on the hololens these cameras film the object or person standing inside an 8-foot circle with four microphones pointing down to record audio half of the cameras are infrared to capture details of shape and texture while the other half are RGB just like a regular film set the director shouts action and the capture process begins footage is then reconstructed into a mesh so post-production Studios can change the lighting manipulate colors and integrate the hologram or 3d model into their content even though the system captures data at 10 gigabytes a second the finished mesh is compressed to 10 megabits per second so it's manageable and can be streamed more easily but the capture system wasn't always this sophisticated we started seven years ago to see if we could use multiple connects the Xbox connects to see if we could reconstruct these 3d holograms at a consumer level this Studios in San Francisco the original is at Microsoft's headquarters at Redmond and another is opening up in London so how much does it cost for a capture session Microsoft didn't disclose a price point but don't expect it to be cheap and it's not really open to the public they're expecting clients from the entertainment industry celebrities all those who want to make instructional videos