Mirage

VOLUMETRIC LIGHT INSTALLATION

Paris, 2024 – OVVO Studio presents Mirage, a folio project that pushes the boundaries of light art through 3D volumetric LED technology. This installation, sculpted in space, uses thousands of floating voxels to create weightless shapes and textures, visible from every angle.

Conceived and fully produced by OVVO Studio, Mirage is more than a technological feat: it is a new form of visual writing in volume, where light becomes substance and depth a narrative tool.

SENSORIAL IMMERSION

With Mirage, we set out to explore a simple yet dizzying question: what happens when light takes shape?

We designed a 3D volumetric LED installation composed of thousands of voxels, capable of drawing moving images in the air, visible from every angle. This project is not merely a technical feat – it is a form of writing in space, a digital sculpture where depth and perspective become narrative tools.

To bring this vision to life, we developed a custom in-house software, designed from the ground up for our Unified Production Environment. This tool allowed us to work entirely offline, with a level of precision in previewing that matched the final result almost identically, from the earliest visual sketches to the sequence played on the installation.

First unveiled in 2024 at the George V hotel for a luxury brand, Mirage has since evolved into new forms, including Nebbiu, presented at Festi Lumi, showcasing the project’s ability to reinvent itself and adapt to diverse contexts.

Between suggestion and abstraction, Mirage invites visitors to share in a reverie, a space where the imagination is awakened, reconnecting each person with the depths of their inner universe as they take part in this experience. Mirage transcends the limits of the tangible, blurring the boundaries between the real and the virtual.

This dreamlike space is a unique gateway to a world where imagination and technology meet, as those who dared to venture there will attest.

VOLUMETRIC LED TECHNOLOGY

The volumetric LED matrix used for Mirage is a three-dimensional light instrument composed of thousands of voxels distributed within a performance space. Each voxel is an independent light source, enabling the creation of volumes, perspective effects, and animations perceived differently depending on the viewer’s position.

Unlike screens or flat surfaces, this technology frees the image into the air – it floats, crosses, and envelops the space, delivering a full 360° immersion.

CREATING IN VOLUME

Working in volume requires a radically different approach to visual creation. We think of light as a malleable substance, capable of being sculpted in space. This means managing spatialization, voxel density, motion speed, and the interplay with the physical environment.

This form of creation changes storytelling: images are no longer just “watched” but “lived” from within, with each viewer experiencing their own version of the work based on their path and gaze.

MIRAGE SOFTWARE

For Mirage, we designed a proprietary software tool, entirely developed in TouchDesigner. More than a content player, it functions as a complete creative platform, gathering every stage of production – visual design, previsualization, sequencing, playback – in a single environment.

Its ultra-precise preview allowed us to work offline with the confidence that the final output would match our creative intent.

This development embodies our creative tech philosophy: building our own tools when existing ones fall short, empowering OVVO Studio’s artists to create without technical constraints.

credits

GEORGES V · 2024

Concept SHANDOR CHURY / OVVO STUDIO // Dev & Creative Tech OVVO STUDIO // Ceiling Mapping Content CYRILLE MACÉ / OVVO STUDIO // LED Pixelmapping Content JÉSUS S BAPTISTA // Music 3.6 STUDIO // 3D Artist FLORIAN MAS // Technical: TF PRO // Acknowledgments Y=F(X) LAB

FESTILUMI | BONNIFACIO (CORSICA) · 2025

Concept SHANDOR CHURY / JESUS S BAPTISTA // Content Dev & Creative Tech SHANDOR CHURY / OVVO STUDIO // Music AMADEO SALVI // Technical VLS