Tokyo 2020 — Olympic Opening Ceremony

With spectators banned, the Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony had to find its stage somewhere other than the stands. It found it on the floor. The entire field of play became a single, broadcast-scale projection canvas — chosen deliberately to showcase Japan’s strength in projection mapping.

In the opening segment, Apart but Not Alone, digital graphics ran across the pitch while dancers linked by red elastic physically extended the projected lines — projection and performers reading as one connected image. Later, the updated Olympic motto was projected across the centre of the field, the medium itself carrying the message of unity.

Onlyview drove the media servers behind that field-of-play projection: calibrated to read for both the camera and the empty stadium, live and one-take, on the largest stage in the world. Genuine, physical, live show control — the hard version of the craft.