More things to come
Our earlier post detailed the The Future of TV conference at the Tommy Flowers Institute at BT’s Adastral Park on 6 and 7 March this year. 2-IMMERSE members have been very involved in the planning of this, and several of us are speaking and chairing sessions. The programme has just been finalised, and is featured below.
Registration is free and is available here.
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JOHN WYVER writes: In just under a month, on 6 and 7 March, the Tommy Flowers Institute at BT’s Adastral Park is hosting ‘The Future of TV’, a two-day conference for post-graduate researchers and industry experts about quite what television is today and where it’s headed. Members of the 2-IMMERSE group have been centrally involved in the planning of the event, both James Walker from Cisco and I will be presenting at it, and BT’s Doug Williams and Ian Kegel will be chairing sessions. Other BT colleagues will be involved in break-out sessions and panels. A key objective for 2-IMMERSE is to highlight the opportunities which we believe object-based broadcasting can provide for the television industry. Attendance is free and you can sign up for it here.
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DOUG WILLIAMS from BT R&D writes: Do take a look at this video from June 2017, taken during an Innovation Event at BT’s global research headquarters at Adastral Park in the UK. At this event BT shares its research, both internal and collaborative, with customers, the press, investors and colleagues.
We had the opportunity to demonstrate our stand-alone prototype of the MotoGP at home service. This prototype did not use the “proper” 2-IMMERSE infrastructure but the demo was good enough to allow us to share ideas with key influencers across the business. Their feedback, and our own assessment of how features actually appeared, helped us identify features we thought were most important. Responsive design and dynamic control, from a tablet, of a 360 bike-cam as a picture in picture on the main screen were the favourites.
It also gave us the chance to share our work with some of those who present BT Sport. In the video Andy Gower talks to Craig Doyle, one BT Sport’s main presenters.
Of course the service prototype we have built for evaluation is much more feature complete, as you can see from the summary video of the MotoGP experience but this early stand-alone demo allowed Andy to develop and test design ideas more quickly.
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