If technical colleagues mention APIs in meetings and you don’t know what they’re referring to or you just need a refresher on the detail, here’s a helpful recently-published introduction by Tam Nguyen on The Conversation. Tam, who is an Associate Professor at the University of Dayton describes APIs (application programming interfaces) as “the gateways to […]
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IBC 2023 from a Mondatum POV
One of the more interesting panel sessions on offer at IBC in Amsterdam last weekend took place on the ETC stage on the Z by HP stand in Hall 7. The session covered “how the shape of the VP industry is changing, and how the development of smaller Virtual Production Studios are opening the technology […]
£400 million Leavesden Studios expansion announced
Warner Bros. Discovery has announced that it is investing £400 million in an expansion of its Leavesden Studios complex in Hertfordshire that will include 400,000 square feet of new production and support space. Work is expected to begin in Q2 2024. When completed in 2027, the studios will have 29 stages and 1.78 million square […]
The Antikythera Mechanism from ‘The Dial Of Destiny’ recreated in LEGO (video)
If you have seen the latest (final?) instalment of the Indiana Jones tales, you’ll be aware that it’s about a race to prevent the Antikythera Mechanism falling into the wrong hands and really, really bad stuff happening. The device, which was discovered in the wreckage of a sunken ship off the coast of Greece in […]
Hey Macarena: Broadcast TECH’s MoveAI demo (video)
A team from Broadcast TECH, including Editorial Director Jake Bickerton, visited MoveAI’s offices in London’s West End to get a demo of the company’s most accessible system to date. This non-real-time application uses four iPhones – here mounted on tripods – to get a full performance capture. Once the performance data is captured and processed, […]
Multi-week YouTube campaign displays 32 NFL helmets on MSG Sphere
The MSG Sphere‘s first multi-week advertising campaign, with YouTube, was for the NFL Sunday Ticket, which gives fans access to all out-of-market Sunday afternoon games on a subscription basis. In the weeks running up to the season launch on Thursday 7 September, an animation showing all 32 NFL team helmets was available for all to see on […]