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CBS’s daytime talk show “The Talk” returned for its 12th season on Monday, September 13, 2021, with an updated look and new augmented reality elements.
The show retained the logo it introduced earlier in 2021, but changed the color scheme to blue and magenta, with violet added to other parts of the airy appearance, including the LED walls and integrated video.
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The opening of the show was updated with new co-hosts Jerry O’Connell and Akbar Gbajabiamila appearing amid blue and purple ribbons.
At the end of the opening, the entire team of the show appears together in a portrait-style photo that “retreats” to appear as an augmented reality element floating over the studio.
A standalone version of the show’s logo floats close as the camera moves forward, zooming “beyond” the elements, which come out of the graphics window.
The AR elements were designed by CGLA Studios and powered by Zero Density’s Reality platform with Unreal Engine providing rendering. Camera tracking comes from Mo-Sys.
Additional augmented reality elements are also used for teasing, using both the logo bubble layout as a “frame” around a sort of floating video panel and standalone 3D text.
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“The Talk” comes out of a tough season 11 season that ended in a racist scandal with Sharon Osbourne, the only original member of the show’s group, who left, along with Carrie Ann Inaba and Elaine Welteroth.
The show was repopulated with O’Connell, who hosted the rehearsal of a talk show in the summer of 2019, and Gbajabiamila, who also hosts “American Ninja Warrior” on NBC.
