05/29/2025
For the 2025 Met Gala Red Carpet broadcast, E! turned to us at CGLA Studios to deliver real-time Augmented Reality that brought the red carpet to life on-air and this video shows some of the results.
Using Getty Images stills taken just seconds after celebrities stepped onto the carpet, we processed them in real time and had them playing back as AR moments within minutes. The pipeline was built in Unreal Engine. We prepped 45 different celebrities, with 18 making it to air.
In addition to delivering the AR, CGLA Studios also provided the Ross Video XPression systems for all insert graphics, and developed both the data integration and the full XPression template package used in the broadcast.
We’re currently working on a full behind-the-scenes video that will walk through how we pulled this off from start to finish.
With the help of our on-site partners Jitacam and , real-time tracking via Mo-Sys StarTracker, and compositing by Zero Density, the entire workflow ran seamlessly during the live E! broadcast.
If you have a red carpet or a show that could benefit from this type of tech, please reach out. We’d love to collaborate.
