virtual reality

Last June, b<>com announced the birth of its very first spin-off: Green Hill Studio. Created by Thomas Boggini, a former Lab Manager at b<>com, the start-up began developing collaborative virtual reality experiences. Thomas looks back at the past few months and their first steps, challenges, and opportunities.

As part of the 40th edition of the Trans Musicales festival in Rennes, b<>com collaborated with Actuonda to participate in the Rencontres & Débats program at the #LIVEINLAB, Friday, December 7 in Rennes.

b<>com announces the launch of Green Hill Studio, a company that develops virtual reality experiences, and the first spin-off from a b<>com R&D project.

For the third year in a row, b<>com's teams will be at the NAB Show in Las Vegas from April 9 to 12. At Futures Park, out of the four demos being offered, the "advanced media coding" team will present a complete production system for creating immersive content. Nicolas Epain, R&D Audio engineer at b<>com, tells us about the technology that will be exhibited, which enables professionals to produce high-quality, affordable immersive audio content.

The virtual reality platform developed in partnership with Océanopolis is presented until November 17 in Bonn, at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change. Within the France Pavillon and on the sidelines of the negotiations, it showcases initiatives aimed at fighting climate instability.

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From July 3 to 13, 2017, b<>com invited the visitors of Océanopolis Brest to test out a new experience, "The Virtual Arctic Expedition." Equipped with virtual reality headsets and headphones, the volunteers, in groups of four, are submerged 20m deep, in a hyperrealistic, virtual marine environment.

The NAB Show closed its doors last week, and this 2017 edition was marked by record attendance: This year, the leading conference for broadcasters, producers and manufacturers in the audiovisual industry topped 103,000 visitors and 1800 exhibitors.

South by Southwest Interactive and Film ended in Austin on Thursday. A record crowd came out, with many widely seen moments like always, such as appearances by astronaut Buzz Aldrin (his "We explore or we expire " was the theme of the week) and Vice President Joe Biden. But besides the stars, the event is the place where creators and innovators from all over the world meet to discuss trends for 10 days. This 2017 edition will be defined by the "E factor": E for Experience, Experimentation, Engagement and Empowerment.

South by Southwest, considered the world's largest gathering devoted to innovation and creation, began last Friday in Austin, Texas and will last all week long. An essential benchmark for taking the pulse of the markets and emerging practices, the first days of the 2017 edition were dominated by debates about artificial intelligence and new experiences.

From November 15 through 17, the Salon des Technologies de l’Image et du Son (SATIS) brought together French-speaking experts from the audiovisual technology industry. Nearly 12,000 professionals from the television, radio, web, movie, and events industries were present to discuss the sector's new technological solutions. b<>com's experts were there; here are the trends they spotted from this edition.

IBC (the International Broadcasting Convention) came to a close last Tuesday, and b<>com is back with the news. The 2016 edition confirmed the event's essential status, with nearly 56,000 participants and visitors, and over 1800 exhibitors, the gathering of broadcasting professionals in Amsterdam went quite well.

From June 4 to 7, the AES (Audio Engineering Society) convention, the most important European event for professional audio, was held in Paris. b<>com was there to exhibit its sound spatialization technologies at the Merging Technologies stand. This Swiss company specializes in manufacturing digital audio interfaces in hardware and software form.

According to the firm Digi Capital, the virtual reality market is expected to reach €30 billion by 2020. At a moment when more and more headsets are coming on the market, we put questions to Ludovic Noblet, Director of Hypermedia at b<>com, about the technology that's shaking up a number of industries.

The Game Developers Conference brought more than 30,000 video game developers to San Francisco this year. With a growing market of over $90 billion last year, the video game industry is rapidly evolving. The virtual reality trend that began last year has clearly kicked into high gear! Jérôme Royan, immersive interactions expert at b<>com, was our reporter on the scene.

Among massive announcements by market leaders, media stunts and the profusion of solutions showcased in Barcelona, you might get lost. Our experts present at MWC share some insights of the technogical progress and latest market developments. Highlights in pictures.

b<>com's Immersive Interactions laboratory took part in the first edition of BIM World at the CNIT in La Défense, Paris on March 25 and 26, 2015...

At the second National IRT Forum that took place on October 21, 2014 in Nantes, France, b<>com gave four demonstrations, illustrating its three field of activity: Networks & security, hypermedia, and e-health.