🎓 ISB 2025 – Poster Presenttion Incoming! 🏋️♂️

Good luck to CAMERA Studio Engineer Harry Davies who will be presenting his latest work at ISB 2025 in Stockholm! 🇸🇪

Title: Agreement between lower-limb NJM derived using ‘Theia3D’ and marker-based methods during the Snatch
When: 29 July, 17:00–18:00

It was such a joy to bring together an inspiring group of researchers, creatives, technologists & policy-makers exploring the future of immersive & interactive storytelling at the XR Network+ roadshow we hosted.

CAMERA were delighted to support the @uniofbath.bsky.social Studen Union summer ball this year through the loan of projector equipment to the fantastic Backstage Technical Services - look what a superb job they did making sure this was a night for all the students to remember (...)

Studio Engineer Harry Davies attended IUSCA conference at Leeds Beckett University:
"It was great to hear from world renowned coaches, understanding how they use biomechanical testing methods to deliver coaching practice & profile athletes."

#biomechanics #weightlifting #markerless #validation

🎥 🐕 Have you met our newest CAMERA Studio Intern?

Zoe has been familiarising herself with the office & Studio, making friends with the team & warming up for her mocap debut next week…

I wouldn’t normally say this of anyone but – look at her lil face!

#motioncapture #animalmotioncapture #dogdata

Register for the latest webinar from XR Network+ on 1 May to find out about two R&D projects that are exploring interactions between data and virtual production to tackle challenges of data compatibility & create new immersive narratives: www.eventbrite.com/e/1297221677...

Do you fancy getting involved in a Smart Cinema testing session on Fri 25 April? Our friends MyWorld would love your help.

It’s a relaxed hour where they’ll play music in the cinema as they test their monitoring kit
just sign up👉: lnkd.in/ehfuMNEV
Photo:Igor Ovsyannykov

Drum roll please….our Virtual Production volume has arrived!
The set comprises 12 x3m main wall of 144 LED panels, two LED wild walls & a 5 x2m LED ceiling screen powered by Brompton LED processors.
Based on @uniofbath.bsky.social campus - get in touch - camera@bath.ac.uk - to find out more.

Wonderful to welcome Distortion Studios back to CAMERA Studio yesterday for a deep dive conversation into the MyWorld CR&D project we're working on.

Brilliant knowledge and ideas exchange on the virtual production pipeline development. Cooking up some fun ideas...watch this space!

We’re at 3DV in Singapore this week, where Dr Adam Hartshorne presented ARC-Flow, a more efficient and high quality method for matching and interpolation of 3D shapes, on the opening morning of the conference.

#3DV2025

If you're lucky enough to be attending
the BMVA 3D Vision Symposium today, you'll have the pleasure of hearing our brilliant Director Prof. Neill Campbell's keynote 'A Hitchiker's Guide to Diffeomorphisms, Hamiltonian Flows & Geometric Measure Theory' #computervision #3DBMVA #3DV

CAMERA co-director & Institute for the Augmented Human (IAH) co-Founder Eamonn O'Neill & team wowed attendees at Cycling Technology Networking Event at Silverstone Sports Engineering Hub with Bike Fit technology which captures info on joints, muscles, O2 & CO2 for performance insight. 🚵 🚲 💻 📈 📊 👨‍⚕️

📽💖Our brilliant centre manager, Rebekah Hole, is at UAL College of Fashion at the XR Network+ roadshow (xrnetworkplus.xrstories.co.uk/event/xr-net...) hearing about opportunities for collaborations in #XR & #VP.

🎉🎭In his intro, XR+ Director Damian Murphy, talked about ouyr RSC R&D project.

Are you our new Virtual Production Studio Engineer?

If you have experience of managing and delivering professional commercial, industrial or research projects in Virtual Production or related technologies then this could be your next job opportunity! Full details here: https://buff.ly/3Q4rJ24

Last week our Studio Engineer Harry Davies took part in a different kind of #techsupport at NTDC Partner Forum 2025 - Technicians: Empowering Your Future
https://buff.ly/4hrmHIF He says “It was good to speak with likeminded technical staff about challenges we face & how we can be further supported."

Our last gift of the season is a very special rendition of the CAMERA 12 Days of Christmas...

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all - we can't wait to get back to making motion capture* magic happen in 2025 - after we've had a bit of a festive rest!

Time for another gift from CAMERA...Here's a free audio book for you this holiday - "Infinite World of Vision: Life Transitions for Young People with Vision Impairments" is a collection of 14 powerful stories about the experiences of visually impaired young people https://buff.ly/4iMRUaO

As it's almost Christmas we wanted to share a few gifts from CAMERA to you.
Today we give you the BioCV dataset!
Created to evaluate computer vision based markerless motion capture systems vs marker based systems - an incredibly useful source of ground truth data for you. https://buff.ly/420kz6j

It's not just new technology that we like to play with...
Here's a glimpse into CAMERA Studio team kicking back for a festive party - hanging out at Playback Arcade in Bristol, little foosball, shooting hoops, old skool Mario Bros, Japanese rhythm & shoot 'em up games too!