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Worlds 2023 had K-pop stars, an AR boy band, and one big screen
20.11.2023 - 22:19 / theverge.com
This past weekend, Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok, the most famous pro gamer in the world, captured his fourth League of Legends world championship as his team, T1, defeated rivals Weibo Gaming in front of a home crowd at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul. It was an impressive display but, as always, one of the most exciting parts of the experience happened before the matches even began.
The opening ceremony for Worlds is a chance for developer Riot Games to mash up bleeding-edge tech with performances from some of music’s biggest names. This time around, the event featured K-pop stars NewJeans and some impressive augmented reality. But the biggest star was also, well, the biggest: a 110-meter-long LED display featured throughout.
“Using that surface, we’re aiming to create really immersive environments,” says Carrie Dunn, Riot’s creative director for global esports. “So it’s not just about portraying information. It’s about making the audience feel like they’ve been transported.”
The 13-minute-long ceremony (which you can watch above) was split into a few different sections. It started with a prerecorded cinematic in which a League player made their way from playing the game in their bedroom to being transported through a portal to the Worlds stage. From there, the musical aspect began with Heartsteel — a newly created virtual boy band made up of alternate versions of popular League characters. First, there were real singers and rappers performing the song “Paranoia.” Then, a (virtual) car crashed into the huge screen, shattering it, while AR versions of the group appeared onstage.
It was a chance for Riot to utilize techniques it had already made use of in the past. At the opening ceremony in 2021, for instance, the entire performance was a cinematic of Imagine Dragons performing on an elaborate set since in-person events weren’t possible at the time. The year before, in Shanghai, the virtual K-pop band K/DA made an appearance onstage via AR. “We’re kind of remixing [these ideas] and applying them in different ways,” says Dunn.
The difference this time was the massive display, which wrapped around the stage and allowed Riot to create a convincing virtual backdrop. The stage itself was pretty simple; there wasn’t much to it other than some rocks embedded around the base of the display — which, Riot notes, were hand-carved — meant to blur the transition from the real world to the fantasy world on-screen. Because of this, the screen had to do a lot of the heavy lifting, depicting large, detailed fantasy settings ripped right out of the League universe. “It just creates the sense of realism,” explains Dunn. “It helps us transport the audience and make it feel like this isn’t just something happening onstage.” Think
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