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24 Oct 2024

Our Head of Audio Experience Oliver Kadel at the DOK Exchange XR Conference in Leipzig, Germany opening with a keynote presentation on Spatial Audio in Immersive Storytelling

By 1618digital

We’ll look at why Spatial Audio is an indispensable part of Immersive Storytelling. What defines Auditory Immersion? Plus the latest case studies, cutting-edge tools, methodologies, and distribution platforms, along with associated challenges and creative opportunities.

Please come to say hello if you’re attending and interested in these topics.

“DOK Exchange XR is DOK Leipzig’s networking and inspiration programme on interactive and immersive storytelling with a focus on XR works and the sustainable development of the international community of XR creators, producers and distributors.”

📅: October 31, 14:30 – 16:10 & November 1, 13:00–18:00, Probsteikirche St. Trinitatis & online.

More info on the DOK Exchange XR programme: https://www.dok-leipzig.de/en/dok-exchange-xr

Get your accreditation: https://www.dok-leipzig.de/en/accreditation

02 Oct 2024

“Letters from Drancy” a virtual reality documentary wins the International Sound Awards 2024

By 1618digital

We are excited to share that “Letters from Drancy”, a virtual reality documentary, just won the International Sound Award 2024.

“Letters from Drancy” shares Marion Deichmann’s daring childhood journey across the borders of Northern Europe, her heartbreaking separation from her mother, her escape with help from the French Resistance in Paris, and her vivid memories of D-Day bombings in Normandy.

Virtual Reality Film Experience: Letters from Drancy

Letters from Drancy

 

12 Jun 2024

“The Evolution of Spatial Audio in Immersive Storytelling” for the latest edition of MPSE’s Wavelength magazine.

By 1618digital

We’re excited to share our article on “The Evolution of Spatial Audio in Immersive Storytelling” for the latest edition of MPSE’s Wavelength magazine.

The article covers technologies, tools, techniques and perception from a practical and academic point of view: discussing psychoacoustics, interactive audio for extended reality, acoustics modelling, aspects such as audio-visual perception, audio cognition, and finally implementation and playback optimisation.

Hope you’ll enjoy the read – https://digital.copcomm.com/i/1521235-summer-2024/71

Thank you to Motion Picture Sound Editors for providing a platform to spotlight our rapidly evolving industry of immersive and interactive audio.

06 Jun 2024

David Attenborough’s Conquest of the Skies 3-part VR series has just won The 45th Annual Telly Awards in the Use of 360 Audio Category.

By 1618digital

Very excited to share that David Attenborough’s Conquest of the Skies 3-part VR series has just won The 45th Annual Telly Awards in the Use of 360 Audio Category. It’s incredible to see this project winning multiple awards and not least being nominated for the Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing.

Discover how insects, reptiles and birds escape the grips of gravity and take to the skies in this immersive series. The series will take you on a journey through the astonishing 300-million-year dynasty of flight in exceptional 3D 180 VR shot in 8k at 60fps and spatial sound. Available now on Meta Quest.

25 Jan 2024

Walk To Westerbork, Escape To Shanghai and Letters From Drancy x 3 VR experiences will be showcased at SXSW2024 this spring in Austin, Texas.

By 1618digital

All three VR films that East City Films produced and created with the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center will be exhibited as part of the VR spotlight at this year’s SXSW festival in Austin, Texas.

This is a chance to see:

WalkToWesterbork directed by Mary Matheson, and featuring incredible Holocaust survivor Rodi Glass, and a story set in Holland and France. Walk to Westerbork is a story of luck, defiance and love for family. Showing the capacity of the human spirit to not only survive but thrive.

EscapeToShanghai directed by Charlotte Mikkelborg, is the story of Doris Fogel and her mother’s escape from Nazi Germany to Shanghai, China. Doris sheds light on a lesser-known, but important part of the Holocaust never to be forgotten. Escape to Shanghai captures the fierce perseverance of Doris and her family as refugees fighting for survival.

LettersFromDrancy directed by Darren Emerson, is the story of Marion Deichmann as she recounts her daring childhood journey across the borders of Northern Europe during WW2 with her mother Alice, her painful separation from her mother, her escape from the Nazis with the help of the French Resistance in Paris, and her survival of D-Day in Normandy.

#SXSWpanel!  Rodi Glass and Marion Deichmann, two of the Holocaust survivors featured in the film, will be taking part in a special panel alongside East City Films and the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center talking about the journey of making these films, and the importance of using new technologies to secure these stories are told to generations to come.

09 Oct 2023

Our Head of Audio Experience Oliver Kadel at the DOK Leipzig Exchange XR Conference in Germany doing a keynote presentation on Spatial Audio for Augmented Reality

By 1618digital

We’ll cover the general approach to sound design for AR. We’ll look at the case study, the recent Apple Design Awards finalist: covering the authoring for hardware device playback vs binaural audio on headphones, balancing the sense of realism and authenticity with the entertainment factor and mitigating the differences in scale between the visuals and sound, and we’ll touch on how AI machine learning starting to shape the personalised listening experience.

“DOK Exchange is DOK Leipzig’s networking and inspiration programme on interactive and immersive storytelling with a focus on XR works and the community’s sustainable development.”

Please come to say hello if you’re attending and interested in these topics.

For more information visit -> https://www.dok-leipzig.de/en/dok-exchange-xr

08 Oct 2023

David Attenborough’s Conquest of the Skies VR series nominated for the Motion Picture Sound Editors 71st Annual Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing

By 1618digital

Very excited to share that David Attenborough’s Conquest of the Skies 3-part VR series has just been nominated for the Motion Picture Sound Editors 71st Annual Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing, in the Non-Theatrical Documentary Category. https://www.mpse.org/

Discover how insects, reptiles and birds escape the grips of gravity and take to the skies in this immersive series. The series will take you on a journey through the astonishing 300-million-year dynasty of flight in exceptional 3D 180 VR shot in 8k at 60fps and spatial sound. Available now on Meta Quest.

 

21 Sep 2023

David Attenborough’s Conquest VR series wins the International Sound Awards 2023

By 1618digital

We are excited to share that David Attenborough’s Conquest of the Skies 3-part VR series just won the International Sound Awards 2023.

Congratulations to the incredible teams at Alchemy Immersive, Atlantic Productions. Lewis Ball, Lou Doye, Iona McEwan, Richard Lester, Bhaumik Patel, Anna Taylor, Emma Rees and many more! Shout out to Hyunkook Lee at Applied Psychoacoustics Lab (APL). Produced in collaboration with Meta, Zoo VFX and 1.618 DIGITAL.

https://www.international-sound-awards.com/david-attenboroughs-conquest-of-the-skies/

Discover how insects, reptiles and birds escape the grips of gravity and take to the skies in this immersive series. The series will take you on a journey through the astonishing 300-million-year dynasty of flight in exceptional 3D 180 VR shot in 8k at 60fps and spatial sound.

Available now on Meta Quest -> https://creator.oculus.com/community/2319730815002569/

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