PICO × Matts Digital workshop
Paris
Step into
the story.
A one stop shop innovation house for immersive creation, in Paris since 2018.
Large Field Theater
↘ In residence
-
ChanelSeveral years in residence within the house, in Neuilly - 104FactoryCENTQUATRE-PARIS: where collective immersion found its scale
- France 2030 ↘Innovation Competition winner · Bpifrance
- France 2030 ↘“Augmented live performance” laureate · Caisse des Dépôts
- Creative Europe MEDIA ↘Development support for The Ghost of Canterville
- CNC ↘Digital experiences fund · Canterville
- Innov’Up LeaderLaureate with the XLVR programme
- Jeune Entreprise InnovanteFrench innovative company status
- Sonovision ↗
Laval Virtual: collective immersion scales up with Atelier Daruma and Matts Digital
- Say Who ↗
Mathias Chelebourg Presents the Immersive.paris® Collection
- Variety ↗
Marion Cotillard Voices Coco Chanel in Immersive VR Project ‘Rencontre(s)’
- Forbes ↗
At Tribeca Film Festival, Virtual Reality With Real Actors Steals The Show
- CNET ↗
What happens inside Tribeca’s hit VR experience “Jack”?
- No Proscenium ↗
The visceral experience I had in Jack: Part One felt indelibly real and magical.
Baba Yaga · Baobab Studios · Venice Film Festival 2020
3 Emmy Awards.
- Outstanding Interactive Media
- Outstanding Directing Team
- Outstanding Character Design
Co-directed by Eric Darnell and Mathias Chelebourg. A virtual reality fairy tale where the viewer becomes the hero, led by an all-female cast.
- Kate Winsletas Baba Yaga
- Daisy Ridleyas Magda
- Glenn Closeas The Chief
- Jennifer Hudsonas The Forest
↘ Our philosophy
Creating immersive experiences requires a wide range of skills, from storytelling and design to advanced custom pipelines and technology. This is why we have developed a strong hybrid business model. Our philosophy is to craft everything in house, from ideation to woodwork, from creative concepts to software and hardware.
↘ 01 — Technologies R&D
The tools to step in together.
A portfolio of patented technologies, built for our productions, then opened to the whole industry.
⌜lft — international patent application (PCT)
Large Field Theater.
The all-in-one platform for multiplayer XR shows: hardware, software and creation tools. Dozens of spectators share one virtual world in one space, with no markers, no internet, no infrastructure. Distributed worldwide by Matts Digital.
↗largefieldtheater.com- Audience
- 15 → 100+
- Infrastructure
- None
- Headsets
- PICO 4 Ultra · OpenXR
- Creation
- Unity SDK
- LFT Mini
- 3 to 15 headsets, carry-on
⌜life — France 2030 laureate
LIFE mocap.
Live Interactive Full Embodiment: live motion capture built for the performing arts. Body, face, hands and voice, cleaned and streamed into Unreal Engine. Developed with Dark Euphoria.
- Latency
- 73 ms
- Streams
- body, face, hands, voice
- Offers
- LIFE Studio · LIFE Mobile
⌜morph↗IA — conversational agent
morphIA.
Characters that listen, understand and answer. morphIA talks out loud with several spectators at once, reads their position and gaze, and holds the story together. Built into the Large Field Theater.
- Voice
- recognition, synthesis, lip sync
- Audience
- several speakers at once
- On stage
- Kephri (Tutankhamun), Victor Hugo
↘ 02 — Immersive Experiences
Stories to walk through.
A team from games, film and theatre designs, builds and tours experiences that engage all five senses.
- Winner 3 Emmy Awards Baba Yaga
- 3 selections Mostra de Venise Alice, the VR Play 2017 · Baba Yaga 2020 · Rencontre(s) 2022
- Selection Tribeca Film Festival Jack: Part One 2018
- Jury, first immersive competition Festival de Cannes Mathias Chelebourg
- Presentation Festival d’Annecy Retour à Canterville 2022
- Official selection Hot Docs The Real Thing 2018
↘ 03 — Brand Content
House stories, lived from the inside.
For houses, we move audiences from watching to experiencing: events, retail, launches.
Chanel · Venise 2022Rencontre(s) ↘ 
Chanel
One house, from the start.
Atelier Daruma spent several years in residence at Chanel. In Rencontre(s), Marion Cotillard voices Gabrielle Chanel to tell the birth of N°5, in competition at the 2022 Venice Film Festival.
↘ Partners and institutions
- ↗Biennale de Venise
- ↗CENTQUATRE-PARIS
- ↗Théâtre du Châtelet
- ↗Festival d’Avignon
- ↗Grand Palais Immersif
- ↗Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle
- ↗IRCAM
- ↗SAT, Société des Arts Technologiques
- ↗PHI Studio
- ↗Mines Paris, PSL
- ↗LISN, PostLab
- ↗INRIA
- ↗Ministère de la Culture
- ↗Institut français
- ↗mk2
- ↗LVMH
- ↗Baobab Studios
- ↗BBC
- ↗ARTE
- ↘Matts Digital
- ↗PICO
- ↗Epic Games
- ↗NVIDIA
- ↗ARRI
- ↗Thales
- ↗Dark Euphoria
- ↘(LA)HORDE
- ↘Olfy
↘ Services
- 01
R&D
We invent the tools our stories are missing.
- ↘Generative AI
- ↘Live performance capture
- ↘Location-based solutions
- ↘Custom electronics
- ↘Software tools
- 02
Development
From first idea to playable prototype.
- ↘Story and art direction
- ↘Experience design
- ↘Interactive design
- ↘IP building
- 03
Production
Real-time worlds, animated and captured in our studio.
- ↘Unreal Engine 5 and Unity
- ↘Animation
- ↘Motion capture
- ↘Video mapping
- ↘Virtual production
- 04
Atelier
Sets and hardware, built in Arcueil.
- ↘Scenography
- ↘Stage building
- ↘Retail experiences
- ↘Interactive installations
- 05
Distribution
Taking works and platform around the world.
- ↘Tours and festivals
- ↘International deployment
- ↘Physical and digital distribution
- 06
Consulting
Informing decisions, with the immersive.paris observatory.
- ↘Ideation and prototyping
- ↘Immersive strategy
- ↘Trend research
- ↘Production pipelines
↘ 04 — Publishing immersive.
immersive.paris.
The observatory of the immersive transition: bilingual printed guides, a daily feed, a map of venues, and talks from Paris to Venice.
↘ Agenda
→Full agenda Where to find us.
UnitedXR Europe
Brussels
Beyond Technology — panel at Venice Immersive
Venice Film Festival, Lazzaretto Vecchio
immersive.paris at LE BOOK Connections
Pavillon Gabriel, Paris
LIFE at Université Montpellier 3
Montpellier
LIFE lab with the Fabrique de la Danse
Château Éphémère
↘ Founder
Mathias Chelebourg.
Director and founder of Atelier Daruma. His virtual reality works have premiered at the Venice Film Festival, Tribeca and Annecy; Baba Yaga, co-directed with Eric Darnell, won three Emmy Awards. He made Doctor Who — The Runaway for the BBC, The Real Thing for ARTE and Rencontre(s) for Chanel. A juror of the Cannes Film Festival’s first immersive competition, he invented Large Field Theater and is the publisher of immersive.paris.
CTO David Calvet
→The studio A Supinfocom-trained director and technical director, founder of the London real-time studio Greysize, with work for Fable Studio and Golden Wolf. He co-directed the VR film The Little Things and leads the technology behind the Large Field Theater.