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Glassbox Technologies

Virtual production software for film, TV, animation and game creators working in real-time game engines.

🇹🇼 Kaohsiung, Taiwan · Founded 2016 · 11–50 people

Series AVirtual productionFilm and TV technologySoftwareAnimation and VFXGames

Glassbox Technologies makes software tools for virtual production. Its tools let content creators use game engines and real-time rendering for film, TV, animation, games and VR. The company was founded in 2016 and was formerly known as Opaque Studios. Its products are DragonFly, BeeHive and Live Client, and it also offers consultancy and virtual production pipeline services.

Open to

  • Customers & pilots

The website sells its software directly, offers free trials, and offers consultancy and virtual production pipeline services.

Products

Product

DragonFly

A professional virtual camera system for shooting computer-generated scenes in real time.

Who it's for: Directors, cinematographers and visual effects teams

  • Works with Unreal Engine and Autodesk Maya
  • Records camera moves, snapshots and multiple passes in one take
  • Simulcam mode combines CG with live action
ProductAvailable, version 3.0

BeeHive

Content management for virtual production and XR LED stages.

Who it's for: Virtual production teams working on LED stages, on site or remotely

  • Streams scene content from the director machine to connected nodes
  • Logs changes automatically and saves history checkpoints
  • Multi-user editing in Unreal Engine, with Maya support
ProductAvailable, free 30-day trial

Live Client

An Unreal Engine plugin that streams markerless facial motion capture onto CG characters in real time.

Who it's for: Animators, game developers, VFX artists and live event producers

  • Calibrates in about one second from a neutral expression
  • Animates several characters at once
  • Works with MetaHuman characters

Customers

Customers range from independent filmmakers to major film and animation studios, VFX and previsualization studios, and game companies.

Traction

Updated Oct 2026
2Lumiere Awards won
4funding rounds completed

Funding

Undisclosedtotal raised
  • Series A+2022US$5 million
  • Incubator/Accelerator2018Undisclosed
  • Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund investment2017Undisclosed
  • Incubator/Accelerator2016Undisclosed
InvestorsAlibaba Entrepreneurs FundHTC (Vive)WI Harper GroupSparkLabs Taiwan

Team