Our state-of-the-art facilities are equipped with a wide range of professional studios and equipment
Spatial Audio Studio and VR Lab [Editing and Production]
Designed to enable work across a range of different spatial audio formats including – Higher Order Ambisonics (up to 4th Order), Dolby Atmos, Auro 3D, DTS-X – this flexible facility will be equipped with Genelec 8331 loudspeakers, with their concentric tri-axial drivers offering unrivaled spatial reproduction ensuring maximum immersive fidelity. World leading digital to analogue conversion via RME MADI interfaces and the latest Oculus Quest VR headsets complete this studio to provide fully immersive AV rendering with the highest resolution in sound and image.
Digital Immersive Theatre [Presentation & Performance]
Extensive upgrades to the existing traditional theatre space will transform its functionality from a single purpose front-facing theatre to a fully flexible immersive theatre, enabling reverse presentations or ‘in-the round’ performances. This new theatre space will enable presentation of immersive media works at scale with robust and flexible infrastructure to accommodate a wide range of needs and research imperatives.
Virtual Production Film Studio [Performance Capture]
State-of-the-art Virtual Production filmmaking facility with a 6×3 meter ultra-high definition LED wall (1.5mm pixel pitch and calibrated maximum brightness of 1200 nits), to render virtual environments as fully interactive and flexible backdrops, upgrading ‘green screen’ technology to provide superior photorealistic rendered virtual worlds.
Equipment
We have a wide selection of microphones for recording, including Neumann, Sennheiser and Rode microphones with Rycote accessories. In addition to ambisonic microphones Eigenmike, Zylia etc.
IKO
Generating immersive 3D soundfields, the IKO uses an array of twenty speakers to project Higher Order Ambisonic sound spaces.
Loudspeaker Orchestra
As a standard we use Genelec loudspeakers in all of our studios, edit suites and in multichannel concerts and installations.
Software
We use the latest professional audio editing software in our studios including Pro Tools, Izotope RX, Adobe Creative Cloud, Waves and Sound Toys, among many others.
Other facilities:
- Surround Sound Cinema style lecture theatre
- Digital Art and Design Lab