What has our bootcamp alumni been up to? 👀 Jeff Chilberto created ‘Crap Taxidermy’ during his time on our Immersive Arts Bootcamp. Now available on the Meta Store, have fun creating your own taxidermy, complete with silly props and poses. Have a play and let Jeff know what you think! bit.ly/3OZlCyH
A look back at last week at BOM! 🤩 We’ve been testing out the Apple Vision Pro for R&D, had a visit from Displace Studio for an Industry Spotlight session for our bootcampers, spent time in the VPS for MoCap, and celebrated our Powering Up programme, inviting students to showcase their work...
What’s happening at BOM? 👀 From our events to projects and building updates – you’ll find it all in our monthly newsletter. Sign up here 👉🏼 bit.ly/3T6L3N9
Save the Date 🥳 Join us on Thursday 16th April, 1pm - 3pm at BOM and discover the work of our Immersive Arts Bootcampers, plus an industry panel! RSVP here: bit.ly/4b0M0j5
That’s a wrap for our current round of Immersive Workshops in partnership with CreaTech Frontiers! 💚 We’ve had a brilliant few months sharing our knowledge from XR Project Planning to Virtual Production. We look forward to holding future CreaTech workshops. Stay tuned!
Spotlight on a busy day at BOM! 🔦 Our Games Artist, Clodagh is busy working on illustrations for a client, a visit to Great Barr Street for a bat inspection, an intensive day for week 8 on our Immersive Arts Bootcamp and our 3D Specialist, Gurvinder working on an upcoming project...watch this space!
Welcome to our Virtual Production Suite – or VPS, as we like to call it. Ideal for immersive projects, we offer flexible hire, from studio to equipment and even the BOM team, all located in the heart of Birmingham and just a 2-min walk from New St Station. Find out more 👉🏼 bit.ly/4hSWILE
Our Immersive Trainer, Akshay Raman, attended the BSC Expo, an event for film and TV production. From attending talks to testing new tech and exploring industry trends, there was plenty of food for thought along with exciting ideas about how these insights could shape our future home in Digbeth! 🎥
Powering Up is a 3-year funded project supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, working predominantly with black children in North Birmingham.
We delivered our final Powering Up programme at BOA Digital!
Over the past few years, we’ve worked with students from Year 7 through to Year 9, and we’ve loved the process! For our final class, pupils created a mixture of low-poly rooms and built their own immersive gallery spaces. 🤩
Frontiers Day was made possible with support from CreaTech Frontiers, Arup, West Midlands Combined Authority, Create Central, Arts Council England, Royal Academy of Engineering and TechWM.
As we look ahead to projects in 2026, we’re taking a moment to reflect on Frontiers Day at Birmingham Tech Week 2025. We have big ideas for this year’s events. 👀 Take a look at the full playlist of the day's talks here: bit.ly/46QP3Je
Video credit: Horizon Collective
It’s always great to be working in the virtual production suite! 💚 Yesterday, we had Jez Collins from Birmingham Music Archive in to record some audio and video for a project we’re collaborating on. We spot some excellent dance moves….
We’ve loved delivering Immersive Arts Workshops in partnership with CreaTech Frontiers. There are still spaces available for our sessions, which run until the end of the month. Sign up here 👉🏼 bit.ly/4arhkZC
A project on @unrealengine.bsky.social is not complete without lighting. 💡 It’s week 5 of the bootcamp, where the cohort has been learning about light properties, learning about Unreal Engine’s Lumen system and exploring emissive materials. Here’s a little peek at their experimentation!
Our engagement team spend the majority of their time onsite teaching in schools, but school trips to BOM are always a highlight! 💡Our recent school visits have focused on creating virtual gallery spaces using Metasteps and experiencing one of the projects in VR.
Thanks to @intogames.bsky.social for organising a fantastic event!
We had a great time at Get into Games at the MAC on Saturday! 💛 We demoed our award-winning mobile game, Mother Nature: EcoDash, shared more about BOM and what we do, and had some really great conversations with people discussing the games industry and careers. Thanks to everyone who spoke to us!
We’ve just completed our first set of Immersive Workshops in partnership with CreaTech Frontiers. 💚
Here’s a look back at our recent session on Photogrammetry and 3D Scanning. There's still good availability for our sessions on the 10th and 12th Feb. Book your free spot: bit.ly/4arhkZC
We have free spaces left for some of our February workshops in partnership with CreaTech Frontiers. Take a look here: bit.ly/4arhkZC
Thanks so much for joining us Ben! It's always great to see you.
Spaces for our free Immersive Workshops in partnership with CreaTech Frontiers, are filling up fast! There’s still availability for sessions on 10th - 12th February. Take a look here for details: bit.ly/4arhkZC
Shout-out to our talented Immersive Studio team! 🔥 Our 3D specialist, Gurvinder and Games Artist, Clodagh, worked together to create this vibrant passion flower. From a 3D model to a unique, hand-painted asset for our ongoing project. Beautiful work from our team.
The Water Bots schools programme is supported by the Royal Academy of Engineering.
As part of our Water Bots project, we took engineers into schools! 💛 Our engineer, Karam Bhamra tasked the pupils with building boats and designing robots on Tinkercad where they considered engineering processes to keep waterways clean.
Credits: Videography by Yan Kalnberzin, Stage Technician, Mat Spencer (Avion TSL). Performers, Mimi Doulton and James Quilligan.
Taking place in real-time, the team used Newski’s family photos and blended them with AI-powered face morphing to create responsive, screen-based imagery. We loved working with the videographer and stage technician on this!
We recently worked with BCMG to provide the live capture and processing of AI visuals for a tryout of Sergej Newski’s Opera, The Relatives, which explores his Crimean family history.
Our deadline for our XR Developer role is on Monday at 12pm!
If you’re passionate about XR, an expert in Unity and have coding expertise and love what we do at BOM, we would love to hear from you.
Read more and apply: bit.ly/4pDjNVr
Our Immersive Arts Workshops begin next week. Fancy joining us? We still have spaces open in February. Places are free and available to Micros, SMEs and Freelancers in the West Midlands. Find out more about the workshops and sign up here. bit.ly/4arhkZC
