NAB 2026: New Sony-Based 100GigE cameras, eSDK Pro and Next-Gen 4DGS

NAB 2026 is a wrap! Emergent featured three incredible demos and won a NAB Product of the Year Award for the new Sony-based ZENITH 100GigE cameras, and TV Tech’s Best in Show Award for ZENITH and the new eSDK Pro software development kit.

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This demo uses 36 EROS 10GigE HE-12000-SBL color cameras to create a real-time 4D Gaussian splat (4DGS) of visitors to the Emergent booth. Each HE-12000-SBL camera provides 12.3MP resolution and captures up to 60fps, providing high realism for your projects.

Content creators are increasingly looking to 4DGS and volumetric capture technologies to create immersive advertising and virtual reality content. You’ll be able to see yourself in real-time at low framerates, or ask to see a recording of your movement in the system after we take a minute to process the recording.

The demo runs on eCapture Pro software, which has recently added audio capture to its capabilities. This means that every camera and your audio source can be synced within 1µs and recording triggered from within eCapture Pro.

What’s the computing backbone for this demo? It’s two servers, with each featuring two of the latest NVIDIA Blackwell-architecture GPUs, the RTX6000 Pro.

This demo puts the spotlight on new ZENITH 100GigE cameras featuring Sony Pregius S sensors that provide higher resolutions and framerates. These are eagerly anticipated because they push resolution up to 105MP and reach hundreds of frames per second.

The demo will feature the HZ-12000-SB, which has the Sony IMX 926 sensor at 12.4MP and up to 662 frames per second. It will be paired with the NVIDIA DGX Spark, the latest mini-computer from NVIDIA, featuring the Grace Blackwell AI processor and native 100GigE ethernet compatibility. This means you can run the fastest 100GigE ethernet cameras simply by plugging them into the DGX Spark.

And one more thing: the HZ-12000-SB camera will be equipped with an RF lens mount, also new at NAB 2026. Through the software, you can control focus, zoom and iris. This provides creators with the flexibility to use Canon’s entire RF lens ecosystem with total control.

New Sony sensors push framerates and resolution higher

The Zenith HZ-100-SB delivers 105 MP at 113 fps over 100GigE, making ultra-high-resolution, high-speed multi-camera capture practical and reliable for the first time. Together with the HZ-25000-SB and HZ-12000-SB, it creates a scalable Ethernet camera family that combines extreme resolution and speed in synchronized arrays—enabling volumetric video, immersive replay, and advanced sports analysis.

Now shipping:

• HZ-100-SB: Sony IMX927 sensor | 105MP | 113fps
• HZ-25000-SB: Sony IMX925 sensor | 24.5MP | 443 fps
• HZ-12000-SB: Sony IMX926 sensor | 12.4MP | 662fps

Available soon:

• HZ-65000-SB: Sony IMX928 sensor | 68MP | 138fps
• HZ-50000-SB: Sony IMX929 sensor | 50MP | 225fps

eSDK Pro makes it easy to move large, synchronized imaging streams from high-bandwidth Ethernet cameras directly into broadcast, sports analysis, and immersive applications. Its ready-to-use pipeline delivers high-resolution, high-framerate data to GPUs and third-party software in real time, enabling replay, AI analysis, and volumetric workflows that define modern live production.

As live production shifts from traditional video to data-driven, multi-camera workflows, a key challenge is moving large volumes of synchronized imaging data from high-bandwidth Ethernet cameras into broadcast, sports analysis, and immersive applications. Emergent Vision Technologies’ eSDK Pro Vision Software Development Kit is designed to solve this.

Built for 10, 25, and 100 GigE camera networks, eSDK Pro uses a pipeline architecture that unifies acquisition, synchronization, GPU transfer, processing, and output. Developers define a workflow—capture, transform, process, export—while the SDK manages scheduling and data movement across CPUs, GPUs, and servers. This greatly reduces integration effort while maintaining deterministic performance and full camera control.

With eSDK Pro, you can focus on application logic, not basic programming.

FlexProc and FlexTrans won NAB 2024 Product of the Year for allow flexible handling of image data from multi-camera systems.

This year, our FlexProc / FlexTrans demo has levelled up, all built in eSDK Pro. Eight BOLT HB-25000-SB cameras (Sony IMX530 / 24.5MP / 105fps) will capture and record for a deep learning and segmentation model that runs on a two-server backbone. Through a four-step process, the deep learning model detects people walking through the scene, counts and classifies them as people, then is able to follow the complete movement of their body. Each server runs using two NVIDIA Ada generation RTX 6000 GPUs.

The HB-25000-SB is a workhorse in sports and entertainment, used widely for motion capture, sports analysis and other applications that require its blend of speed and resolution.

What are FlexProc and FlexTrans?

FlexProc helps you define which node in your system does the heavy lifting, including GPU Direct processing. Layer on your own custom CPU, GPU, or FPGA plugins, or build your own.

FlexTrans helps you manage and move the imaging data between nodes in your system, with the highest performance and lowest latency possible. Featuring zero-copy and GPU direct support. Using FlexTrans, every image is where you want it to be.