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Feeling stuck in the Monday blues? Join us for Beyond Blue Monday, a day of tackling challenges, igniting opportunities and sparking innovation in the creative industries on the 20th of January, Monday at 10 am at HOST, MediaCityUK! What to Expect: Roundtable Discussions: Share challenges, uncover solutions, and shape the future of industry support.  Networking Lunch: Build connections with peers and leaders.  Who Should Attend: Professionals in AI, VR, AR, XR, Games, Film, TV, Music, Audio, and Art, as well as Brand Owners in the creative industries. Spaces are limited! Mark your calendar and register your interest here before the 15th of January! https://lnkd.in/eNkuZc2i Anthony Hatton Rodolphe Soulard Jonathan Kershaw Dr John O'Hare Jing Li David Afolabi Christian G H Frost Arpana Nandakumar Pete Woodbridge James Spiers Angela Mehr Professor Andy Miah 🎓 #MediaCity #Innovation #CreativeIndustries #Networking #MITIH

We wrapped up this year’s programmes by successfully hosting two fantastic events that brought the tech community together at MediaCityUK , in collaboration with Scenegraph Studios ! Females in Tech Meetup: An inspiring session led by Nicola Honey , co-founder of Scenegraph Studios, along with Jing Li and Arpana Nandakumar from our DreamLab , where women in tech connected, collaborated, and shared their challenges & ideas in an empowering space. Immersive Tech Drop-In: A hands-on session with Dr. David Tully from Scenegraph Studios, where participants explored cutting-edge technologies like Unreal Engine, NVidia Omniverse, and custom AI integrations. A day of learning, guidance, and innovation! A huge thank you to everyone who joined us and helped make these events a success. Stay tuned for more exciting things we've planned for the next year.. Wishing you all a warm Christmas and a fantastic 2025! See you on the other side. - TEAM MITIH. Anthony Hatton Professor Andy Miah 🎓 Pete Woodbridge John O'Hare Roger McKinley James Spiers Angela Mehr Jonathan Kershaw David Afolabi Arpana Nandakumar Jing Li Dean Evans Robin Cramp Rodolphe Soulard Steve Moyler Bradley Harris Haydn Secker Krisstoffer Dunk

Big Odyssey news! We’re unveiling Explorer, a generative world model. Explorer transforms text or an image into a realized, detailed 3D world. I'm also incredibly excited that Ed Catmull, the legendary Pixar founder, is joining our board and investing. Ed co-founded Pixar with the belief that the story must shape the technology—not the reverse. They took the hard road, pioneering new technologies to enable stories thought impossible. In Pixar's case, they pioneered computer graphics. For us, it's generative world models. World models, alongside language, image, and video, are now a key AI frontier, but they're the least explored. Imagine worlds that build themselves, that feel indistinguishable from reality, where new stories are created and remixed, and where human and machine intelligence interact. Enter Explorer—our first generative world model, and the start of this epic journey. Explorer is an image-to-world model that transforms an image into a detailed 3D world. Explorer is particularly tuned for photorealistic worlds, with this proving a key strength. Our world is constantly in motion, and Explorer’s worlds should be no different. Although earlier in research, generative world motion, all in 3D, holds super exciting promise to enable artists to generate and manipulate motion in new and more realistic ways. A world generated with Explorer is output as a gaussian splat. Many of the top vision researchers in the world have turned their attention towards splats, and it's easy to see why. Splats can represent 3D scenes with almost imperceptibly real detail. Representing worlds as splats also means artists can natively edit them in a growing list of creative tools. Unreal, Houdini, Blender, Maya, 3D Studio Max, After Effects, and more now support splats. Artists with early Explorer access have used these tools for incredible things! Generative world models could accelerate the creation of film and gaming-compatible worlds. To test this, we visited Garden Studios in London. We beamed Explorer-generated worlds onto a SOTA virtual production stage, used for high-end film. The conclusion: they worked, and looked incredible! We're now opening up access to Explorer more broadly. If you're eager to explore generative world models with us, and to collaborate closely, we want to hear from you ASAP. Head over to our site to apply, and we'll be in touch. Explorer is our starting point, and one we're really, really proud of. Generative world models have a long road ahead, but the promise is vast. A brand new medium is being created as we speak! Let's together pioneer generative world models and what they enable you to create 🫡 I still can't quite believe we have the opportunity to partner with and learn from Ed Catmull. We're beyond excited You can learn a whole lot more about Explorer, generative world models, and our partnership with Ed in the link in the comments.

It's been amazing to support The Emotional Health Hub with their vision & to see this project shape up!

Dear friends, I’m so excited to introduce Living Encyclopedia: Large Nature Model (LNM)—an AI-powered platform of DATALAND that reimagines the traditional concept of an encyclopedia by transforming vast nature-based datasets into immersive, multi-sensory experiences. Powered by cutting-edge AI and new epic Image Diffusion AI research collaboration Black Forest Labs LNM connects us to the beauty and complexity of the natural world in ways that feel dynamic and alive. Instead of presenting static information, LNM offers an evolving space for exploration, where knowledge is experienced through generative text, visuals, and sound. This marks a groundbreaking step forward in how we engage with data—an experience that invites curiosity, reflection, and wonder. The Living Encyclopedia offers three modes of interaction. In Research Mode, you can dive into detailed ecosystems, explore real-time weather simulations, and engage with environmental data. In Create Mode, you can generate scientifically accurate images of flora, fauna, and fungi based on text prompts. Dream Mode offers a meditative journey through evolving landscapes, visuals, and nature sounds—creating a space for calm and connection. As we prepare for the grand opening of DATALAND in 2025 at The Grand LA, we invite you to help shape this evolving project by joining our beta community. Be among the first to experience LNM and contribute to its future in Web3 space and beyond. Learn more and apply for beta access at LNM.dataland.art

Are you a female in tech looking to connect, collaborate, and be inspired? We at MITIH and DreamLab in partnership with Scenegraph Studios are hosting a special session to bring Females in Tech together from across Manchester on the 19th of December, Thursday at MediaCityUK from 10 am to 12 pm. This event is an initiative led by Nicola Honey, co-founder of Scenegraph Studios, who is dedicated to building a community where women in tech can connect, share ideas, inspire one another, and collaborate on exciting opportunities. She will also be joined by Jing Li & Arpana Nandakumar from MITIH & DreamLab. Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/emw8GT39

Imagine if you had your own assistant to help you learn new software? As a creative technologist/developer, my life is spent quickly adapting and learning new things..... Often I know what I want to do, but don't know what menu the options are in, or what something is called in a different platform. That can be incredibly frustrating: Time spent searching forums, trawling through videos to find out stuff. Even if you ask text prompt AI for help, it often lacks the visual context that can be hard to explain in words. Well... I am absolutely blown away by the Multimodal Live API/Realtime features that Google released a few days ago with Gemini 2.0 Here's a example of me using it to assist me with Logic (its been a while!). + the 'in progress' track it helped me to create in a few evenings. Deffo needs work and cleaning up 😜 Am totally gobsmacked and blown away by this....... a real gamechanger for learning and thinking about the future of less frictional interfaces. Exciting times. #ai #creativeai #google #multimodal #learning #logicpro #software #interfaces #creativetech

Hey everyone! I’m on a journey to establish an AI Creative Studio, with a strong focus on Pre-Vis. Currently, I’m focused on building AI workflows, AI pipeline, folder sturctures and advanced integration with 3D to achieve one clear goal: Maximum control over camera and motion within the AI shot! Here’s a quick experiment I ran — 20 minutes compressed into 2 minutes —creating cinematic shots of an Audi A8 in 3D, rendered with Runway. Why does this change the game for Pre-Vis? ✅ Full control over camera and object movement. ✅ Super-fast exploration of countless creative directions. ✅ High-quality rendering in record time. SO.... Calling all 3D artists (Modeling, layout, animation), compositors, and COMFYUI pros! Want to join my next experiment? A moving car in the city, shot from multiple angles — reach out and let’s see how far we can push this together! 🎥 Enjoy the video!

📣UK-Canada Funding!! Looking for UK partners for a Canadian company 💡 What is included? Up to £300K for the UK partner & $500K for the Canadian partner. Details can be found here: https://lnkd.in/eUMRvcat Watch the briefing event here: https://lnkd.in/eG6235J6 Dan Wilchesky from D&D Skunkworks Inc. in Toronto has reached out looking for UK partners to join one of two applications: Project 1: Project "Gravity Jet Pack", which is taking the real-world Gravity flight club and re-creating it with simulators using XR-VR to affect the senses. They have a patent pending in the UK, US and Canada filed. The Canadian team will work on the VR-XR physics for the simulator, including all the relevant forces and bidirectional forces that need to be worked into the simulator they are building. They will also develop the hardware. They are looking for a UK partner to help with the test content and initial creative content for the simulator experience. Project 2: A confidential project integrating IoT/AI within their existing "digital twin" platform that is designed to improve technical field service training, maintenance, recall and repair. The digital twin and integration will exist across form factors including VR-XR and AR potentially. They are interested in finding UK partners in both the #IoT and #AI spaces. Feel free to reach out to Dan directly, or DM me your email and I'll connect you. If you are looking for partners for this funding call, please comment below! The deadline is in April, but an expression of interest must be completed by early January. #digital #innovation #immersivetech #XR #funding Innovate UK Immersive Tech Network