Holosphere

It was a pleasure to partner with Second Home Studios on Beachcomber! XR has immense potential for therapeutic applications, especially when combining immersive, stunning visuals with mild gamification. In today’s 24-hour, noisy world of notifications and multitasking, we believe virtual reality meditation will be a powerful tool in stress management and enhancing creativity. Chris Randall Katrine Loraas Jordan Hogan Charlotte Clarke

We travelled to the Isle of Man in November to attend their Digital Isle event and to show some of our tech to business leaders and government. It's a fascinating place with lots of opportunties for XR/spatial computing, AI and green technology. Here's a brief video summary; looking forward to going back!

Holosphere is collaborating with other partners on the ALCHEMAI project to create a software and tool that can visualise buildings and help local authorities, building managers, and decision-makers understand their buildings more deeply. Ed Lawes, Holosphere, joined us to explain their software, thermal imaging with drones, and their methodology for creating 3D models of buildings in a single day’s work. Read here ▶️ https://lnkd.in/dYp2M3S2

It was a really fun morning yesterday, showing Fiona Latter MILM, MIoE and Stephen Harris our new multi-user mixed reality HoloPORTAL platform! Thank you both for visiting our studios 😊 David Tomalin David Gaughan West Midlands Combined Authority Richard Woodland

Super excited about this! Holosphere is proud to be an industry partner in the successful bid for the AHRC Creative Industries Clusters: CreaTech Frontiers in the West Midlands. The region's reputation as a creative hub continues to grow, and this UKRI funded multi-million-pound investment will accelerate it even further. We look forward to collaborating with partners to produce groundbreaking experiences! Thank you to Birmingham City University, Coventry University, University of Birmingham, University of Warwick and the Royal Shakespeare Company for all your work on this bid! Create Central Fiona Latter MILM, MIoE West Midlands Combined Authority Tim Luft Department for Culture, Media and Sport https://lnkd.in/ezxkVT3D

It was a pleasure to visit the Training and Manufacturing Group Exhibition 2024 at In-Comm Training’s £3M state-of-the-art facility in Telford yesterday! What an impressive place! The event was a real hive of activity, bringing together the region’s thought leaders, engineers, and future creators! Facilities like these, dedicated to apprenticeships and upskilling, are vital for addressing the skills shortages - especially in engineering and manufacturing - here in the West Midlands. It was great to see virtual reality represented with a welding simulator that drew the crowds, and I enjoyed the inspirational talk by David Gaughan, Head of Employer Services at the West Midlands Combined Authority. Bekki Phillips Peter Robinson Stuart Parker Joanne Fellows DipGAI

It was a real privilege to represent Holosphere at the wonderfully jam-packed trade mission to Birmingham's twin city, Leipzig, organised by Invest Region Leipzig, Birmingham City Council, the West Midlands Combined Authority, and the Department for Business and Trade. What a beautiful, dynamic place! A true fusion of incredible architecture, modernity, excellent customer service, and fantastic facilities (and of course - great food!) The few days were fantastic, and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting fellow creatives from Birmingham. It was also a pleasure to meet our Lord Mayor, Ken Wood, and his wife. I’d love to keep the conversation going and am very happy to invite people to the Holosphere studios too. There are too many people to thank, but a special mention goes out to Fiona Latter MILM, MIoE and Richard Woodland for organising, and to Florian Foege and Kerstin Rath for their warm hospitality and showcasing all the opportunities the city has to offer. My personal highlight was visiting the “Dalí Cybernetics” extended reality exhibition at Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig GmbH, a stunning converted warehouse featuring large-scale 3D projections, user-generated digital art, and VR experiences that brought Dalí’s surrealist artworks to life. Here’s a short summary of the trip, captured on my mobile phone. Bindiya V. Oliver Scott Surlender Pendress Michael Ford Robyn Lund Daniel Bridgewater Kreatives Leipzig Stuart Lane Adam Breeze Future Fabrik Daz Scott Pete Chapman Christopher Siebenhüner Marco Weicholdt Daniel Korenev Paolo Loeffler Michael Körner Andy Smith Ana Madan Sasha Bowen Ameesha G. Martha Harrison MACHN Festival Meiyo Andy Morrin West Midlands Growth Company #UKSPF #RegionLeipzig

Jon from Holosphere here! Sharing some phone footage from the Immersive Arts Showcase October 2024 at BOM (Birmingham Open Media). What a great venue! Presenting their work were the cohorts of the Unreal Engine 5 Immersive Arts Bootcamp, where they had 12 weeks to develop an interactive project. Thank you Karen Newman and Vorn S. for showing me your amazing space and congratulations on such a fantastic initiative! #BirminghamTechWeek TechWM

What an exciting time to be a Birmingham tech business! Birmingham Tech Week is now the largest tech festival outside London, and this year is set to be the biggest yet. The Digital Skills Symposium kicked off with a fireside chat featuring the Mayor of the West Midlands, Richard Parker, and explored the challenges and opportunities the region faces in developing digital skills, in which we believe XR and AI will play a vital role. University of Birmingham TechWM techUK West Midlands Combined Authority #BirminghamTechWeek

To celebrate the reopening of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery's Waterhall, the cultural institution partnered with Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) for a week of dancing, music, and activities. During the Victorian Radicals exhibition, Holosphere offered visitors the chance to experiment with their own movements and see how they were translated into instant digital art. In this video, enjoy the fluid performances of Reina Fuchigami and Shuailun Wu as their movements are augmented with real-time motion-capture generated imagery, crafted by Matt Clugston. Birmingham Museums Trust