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AOTO Powers Orbital Studios’ Stage 31 at Television City

Orbital Studios at Television City in Los Angeles. Exterior image via Deadline / Yahoo.

Los Angeles, November 2026 — AOTO has supplied its flagship RM Series LED panels for Stage 31, Orbital Studios’ new virtual production facility at Television City in Los Angeles. The studio brings together advanced LED technology, real-time rendering and virtual production expertise at one of Hollywood’s most historic production lots.

Since opening in 1952, Television City has been home to some of America’s most recognizable television programs, including The Carol Burnett Show, All in the Family and The Price Is Right. In July 2026, Orbital Studios announced its move to the landmark site, bringing its headquarters, production operations and research capabilities to a location with more than seven decades of television history.

Founded in 2020 by filmmaker A.J. Wedding, Orbital Studios has worked on productions including Netflix’s Nemesis, FX’s Justified: City Primeval and History Channel’s World War II with Tom Hanks. Its work spans virtual production, virtual art, real-time rendering and 3D Gaussian Splatting, with an emphasis on giving filmmakers greater creative control while keeping production efficient.

Stage 31 offers approximately 15,000 square feet of usable production space, featuring a curved LED wall measuring 25 meters wide and 5.8 meters high, complemented by a 7.3-by-3.7-meter LED ceiling. Built with AOTO’s RM Series LED panels at a fine 1.5 mm pixel pitch, the volume delivers detailed imagery and consistent color reproduction for demanding on-camera applications.

Stage 31’s curved LED wall and LED ceiling. Photo courtesy of Orbital Studios.

The LED system is driven by eight Brompton Tessera SX40 LED processors and 16 Tessera XD data distribution units, working alongside Dell media servers powered by NVIDIA GPUs, OptiTrack camera tracking, Unreal Engine and Pixera software. Together, these technologies support real-time virtual environments that respond to camera movement, allowing filmmakers to capture digital backgrounds directly in camera.

A.J. Wedding, Founder and CEO of Orbital Studios, praised AOTO’s 1.5 mm LED technology for its “incredible fidelity, speed and flexibility.” He also highlighted the benefits of the new Television City location, including additional stages, improved facilities and expanded development capabilities for Orbital’s team and clients.

Orbital’s move to Television City brings its virtual art and R&D teams closer to day-to-day production. With LED virtual production and digital location reconstruction, filmmakers can create scenes set in different parts of the world while working on a single Los Angeles studio lot. Orbital continues to develop real-time production tools and more cost-effective approaches to photorealistic content.

The collaboration between AOTO and Orbital extends beyond Stage 31. At IBC 2026 in Amsterdam, Wedding and Laura Coover from Orbital joined AOTO’s discussions on Gaussian Splatting, sharing insights into its growing applications in virtual production and filmmaking.

With more than 130 virtual production studios delivered worldwide, AOTO continues to work with filmmakers and production teams across major production markets. Stage 31 adds another Hollywood installation to that portfolio, bringing AOTO’s RM Series into a working studio where Orbital is developing new approaches to film and television production.

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