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25 Jan 2024

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.

 

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

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/