All through its protection of the latest Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the BBC used Epic Games’ Unreal Engine to create your complete studio.

As an alternative of flying its varied presenters out to Tokyo, the BBC used the identical engine as Fortnite to create a wide range of studio set-ups. From fish swimming across the backyard to the views of the Tokyo skyline, nearly all the things viewers noticed on display screen was rendered within the sport engine.

“Lots of people assumed we had been truly stay from Tokyo however due to the pandemic, the plain journey restrictions and the uncertainty that got here with all that, we’ve carried out issues barely in a different way,” mentioned Dan Walker in a behind the scenes tour of the Olympics studio, as discovered by Nintendolife.

He then revealed the entire thing was truly broadcast from Salford. Seems the one factor actual objects of their “Inexperienced Kingdom” had been the chairs, the flooring and the metallic tables.

‘The set is rendered from the identical engine that produces Fortnite,” continues Walker earlier than Sam Quek explains how all the pictures had been rendered in actual time. Invisible to the viewer “ghosts” had been projected onto the partitions to assist presenters interview the Tokyo-based Olympics athletes whereas your complete crew was hidden utilizing “digital masking”.

“As a result of all the things is extremely rigorously masked and marked out, there are specific issues you possibly can’t do or locations you possibly can’t go,” says Walker earlier than disappearing as he walks into a type of masked areas. As you’d think about, sporting inexperienced or white clothes was additionally an enormous no no.

This wasn’t the one gaming/Olympics crossover we noticed this 12 months although. Music from well-known video video games soundtracked the opening ceremony whereas leaked paperwork have revealed that there have been as soon as plans for Lady Gaga to disappear into a warp pipe throughout the identical occasion.

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