🎓 ISB 2025 – Poster Presenttion Incoming! 🏋️♂️

Good luck to CAMERA Studio Engineer Harry Davies who will be presenting his latest work at ISB 2025 in Stockholm! 🇸🇪

Title: Agreement between lower-limb NJM derived using ‘Theia3D’ and marker-based methods during the Snatch
When: 29 July, 17:00–18:00

It was such a joy to bring together an inspiring group of researchers, creatives, technologists & policy-makers exploring the future of immersive & interactive storytelling at the XR Network+ roadshow we hosted.

Stronger by Science - Weightlifting Biomechanics Workshop This weightlifting biomechanics workshop will showcase state-of-the-art tech to help coaches and lifters improve their performance.

It’s the FINAL COUNTDOWN! There’s only a couple of days to go until our FREE Biomechanics Weightlifting Workshop at Resilience Weightlifting.

Sat 28 June, 10am-2:30pm, Resilience Weightlifting. Sign up below

Drop a 🏋️ in the comments if you are joining..

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stronger-b...

CAMERA were delighted to support the @uniofbath.bsky.social Studen Union summer ball this year through the loan of projector equipment to the fantastic Backstage Technical Services - look what a superb job they did making sure this was a night for all the students to remember (...)

Studio Engineer Harry Davies attended IUSCA conference at Leeds Beckett University:
"It was great to hear from world renowned coaches, understanding how they use biomechanical testing methods to deliver coaching practice & profile athletes."

#biomechanics #weightlifting #markerless #validation

🎥 🐕 Have you met our newest CAMERA Studio Intern?

Zoe has been familiarising herself with the office & Studio, making friends with the team & warming up for her mocap debut next week…

I wouldn’t normally say this of anyone but – look at her lil face!

#motioncapture #animalmotioncapture #dogdata

Are you interested in being a participant in a Digital Human Research project? - CAMERA Project Overview Would you like to take part in a Pilot Volumetric Capture Study to help in the research and development of digital human representation? We are recruiting 10 people to participate in ...

Would you like to help in the research & development of digital human representation?
We are recruiting 10 students to participate in a dataset creation project using our volumetric capture system. More info on our website:
www.camera.ac.uk/2025/04/22/a...
@uniofbath.bsky.social

Register for the latest webinar from XR Network+ on 1 May to find out about two R&D projects that are exploring interactions between data and virtual production to tackle challenges of data compatibility & create new immersive narratives: www.eventbrite.com/e/1297221677...

Do you fancy getting involved in a Smart Cinema testing session on Fri 25 April? Our friends MyWorld would love your help.

It’s a relaxed hour where they’ll play music in the cinema as they test their monitoring kit
just sign up👉: lnkd.in/ehfuMNEV
Photo:Igor Ovsyannykov

CAMERA's director Prof Neill Campbell is at the 7th Workshop on Data, Learning & Inference (DALI) in Sorrento this week.
With workshops & posters on subjects from AI for science, to LLMs for social impact it is a thoughtprovoking schedule
dalimeeting.org/sorrento2025/

Drum roll please….our Virtual Production volume has arrived!
The set comprises 12 x3m main wall of 144 LED panels, two LED wild walls & a 5 x2m LED ceiling screen powered by Brompton LED processors.
Based on @uniofbath.bsky.social campus - get in touch - camera@bath.ac.uk - to find out more.

Wonderful to welcome Distortion Studios back to CAMERA Studio yesterday for a deep dive conversation into the MyWorld CR&D project we're working on.

Brilliant knowledge and ideas exchange on the virtual production pipeline development. Cooking up some fun ideas...watch this space!

We’re at 3DV in Singapore this week, where Dr Adam Hartshorne presented ARC-Flow, a more efficient and high quality method for matching and interpolation of 3D shapes, on the opening morning of the conference.

#3DV2025

If you're lucky enough to be attending
the BMVA 3D Vision Symposium today, you'll have the pleasure of hearing our brilliant Director Prof. Neill Campbell's keynote 'A Hitchiker's Guide to Diffeomorphisms, Hamiltonian Flows & Geometric Measure Theory' #computervision #3DBMVA #3DV

CAMERA co-director & Institute for the Augmented Human (IAH) co-Founder Eamonn O'Neill & team wowed attendees at Cycling Technology Networking Event at Silverstone Sports Engineering Hub with Bike Fit technology which captures info on joints, muscles, O2 & CO2 for performance insight. 🚵 🚲 💻 📈 📊 👨‍⚕️

XR Network+ partners with the Royal Shakespeare Company to launch new R&D projects - XR Network+ The projects are exploring new techniques that combine traditional stagecraft with virtual production technologies.

Our XR Network+ Royal Shakespeare Company R&D challenge is underway with @camera-bath.bsky.social & The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama leading projects to tackle some of the challenges facing theatre practitioners looking to adopt virtual production technologies. Read more: bit.ly/3EBqpRB

We'll be at Ignite+: AI and Machine Learning Showcase on Feb 27, talking about our projects, our newly refurbished studios (complete with ALL the best kit in 3DV, volumetric, motion capture, photogrammetry, VR and VP) and would love to chat to you if you're there!

📽💖Our brilliant centre manager, Rebekah Hole, is at UAL College of Fashion at the XR Network+ roadshow (xrnetworkplus.xrstories.co.uk/event/xr-net...) hearing about opportunities for collaborations in #XR & #VP.

🎉🎭In his intro, XR+ Director Damian Murphy, talked about ouyr RSC R&D project.

Making “all the world a stage” with dynamic motion capture solutions for theatre production - XR Network+ The project is combining high resolution motion tracking and machine learning solutions to explore the next generation of performance capture.

Through the XR+ and with the RSC, We're making “all the world a stage” this year, developing dynamic motion capture solutions for theatre production to collaboratively create toolset will be an artist-centred ‘actor engine’.
Read more about the project here:

Are you our new Virtual Production Studio Engineer?

If you have experience of managing and delivering professional commercial, industrial or research projects in Virtual Production or related technologies then this could be your next job opportunity! Full details here: https://buff.ly/3Q4rJ24

Last week our Studio Engineer Harry Davies took part in a different kind of #techsupport at NTDC Partner Forum 2025 - Technicians: Empowering Your Future
https://buff.ly/4hrmHIF He says “It was good to speak with likeminded technical staff about challenges we face & how we can be further supported."

Our last gift of the season is a very special rendition of the CAMERA 12 Days of Christmas...

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all - we can't wait to get back to making motion capture* magic happen in 2025 - after we've had a bit of a festive rest!

Time for another gift from CAMERA...Here's a free audio book for you this holiday - "Infinite World of Vision: Life Transitions for Young People with Vision Impairments" is a collection of 14 powerful stories about the experiences of visually impaired young people https://buff.ly/4iMRUaO

As it's almost Christmas we wanted to share a few gifts from CAMERA to you.
Today we give you the BioCV dataset!
Created to evaluate computer vision based markerless motion capture systems vs marker based systems - an incredibly useful source of ground truth data for you. https://buff.ly/420kz6j

It's not just new technology that we like to play with...
Here's a glimpse into CAMERA Studio team kicking back for a festive party - hanging out at Playback Arcade in Bristol, little foosball, shooting hoops, old skool Mario Bros, Japanese rhythm & shoot 'em up games too!

We're loving supporting @uniofbath.bsky.social spinout Forceteck helping to further train their force prediction models!
We created a custom motion capture volume with portable force plates to provide both joint position and force ground truth data required, outside of a normal lab environment.