An interview from the 2026 NAB Show in Las Vegas with Bob Caniglia at the Blackmagic Design Booth.

At NAB 2026, Blackmagic Design announced Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive 100G, the world’s first immersive cinema camera designed for live production with Apple Immersive Video. Featuring dual 8Kx8K RGBW sensors with 16 stops of dynamic range, URSA Cine Immersive 100G uses 100G Ethernet to deliver the bandwidth needed to output live immersive video for the first time.

URSA Cine Immersive 100G features revolutionary new sensors designed for incredible quality images at 8K x 8K per eye. Using the same revolutionary RGBW sensor design as URSA Cine, the new dual sensor layout features larger photo-sites, delivering an astounding 16 stops of dynamic range. The unique RGBW architecture provides equal amounts of red, green and blue pixels for incredible color super sampling. This means it is optimized to deliver incredibly rich colors and provide the ultimate in image quality and flexibility, even at the high frame rates live immersive video requires.

The Blackmagic URSA Live Encoder enables the Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive 100G to be used for live immersive production. It encodes live video into ProRes for output as SMPTE-2110 IP video via the high-speed 100G Ethernet port, creating an entirely new live immersive viewing experience. Plus, the camera data rate is under 50 Gb/s, so customers can combine two cameras into a single 100G Ethernet connection.

URSA Cine Immersive 100G was recently used for Spectrum Front Row, a series of live Lakers games in Apple Immersive during the 2025-2026 season, which are now available to watch on demand using the Spectrum SportsNet and NBA apps for Apple Vision Pro.

Also at NAB 2026, Blackmagic Design announced the URSA Cine 12K LF 100G, a new model in the URSA Cine family with 100G Ethernet for high frame rate SMPTE-2110 live production output up to 440fps. Building on the revolutionary digital film features of the URSA Cine 12K LF, including the large format RGBW 36x24mm sensor, the new model adds dramatically faster networking for cinematic live production workflows.

Blackmagic Generation 6 Color Science features numerous imaging improvements for the advanced URSA Cine sensor, with extremely accurate color reproduction for natural and pleasing skin tones. The processing pipeline has been redesigned using 3D LUTs for film, extended video and video gamuts, so customers can customize output by loading their own LUTs. The LUTs are applied after the color corrector, so corrections are on top of full film gamut. Customers can output different color spaces using preloaded LUTs including Rec. 709, 2020 and PQ, plus customers can even customize the gamut compression. URSA Cine now has two 3D LUT processors for different outputs and an extra 3D LUT just for the SMPTE-2110 output.

For more information please visit: www.BlackmagicDesign.com