A Coffs Harbour based company is helping revolutionise the way first responders prepare for traumatic scenes - by using virtual reality. TacMed Australia has teamed up with Spectre Studios to create the training program 'Emergisim' - with new funding secured to expand the platform. by Britt Ramsey | NBN News-News, Sport & Weather
Cork s Greatest Records: Bass Odyssey, breakbeats, and the night I slept in LL Cool J s bed
The latest in our B-Side The Leeside series looks at the drum and bass outfit who made an impact in the late 1990s with such tracks as Remote Control Soul
Bass Odyssey: Alan O Keeffe, Chris O’Driscoll and Graham Finn.
Thu, 11 Mar, 2021 - 12:30
Ed Power
One morning in the summer of 1999, Graham Finn woke up in the childhood bedroom of rapper LL Cool J, in Queens, New York. A question flashed through his mind: how did I get here?
“LL Cool J had kept the house he grew up in,” says Cork-born Finn from his home in Green County in Upstate New York. “There was a studio in the basement. If he was working with an artist he would put them up there for the week. I slept in his childhood bed. It was very surreal.”
Industry trailblazer Spectre Studios uses Brompton Technology for Unreal Build: Virtual Production event
Looking back at 2020, this has been a year of many ups and downs, with companies undergoing radical transformations from facilitating physical events to adopting pioneering technologies used for remote productions, virtual set-ups and generally tapping into the world of virtual production. For Spectre Studios, however, virtual production (VP) is not a new field. The company was already using real-time engines and virtual production technologies for its work on Hollywood blockbusters and, last year, set up ICVFX full-service LED VP studio in conjunction with Big Picture, part of the NEP Worldwide Network, using top-quality equipment at the facility which includes Brompton Tessera LED processing power to drive ROE LED panels.
Spectre uses Brompton for Unreal Build
Thursday, 14 January 2021
Jake Speer as the actor in the production titled Shifted/I (photo courtesy ICVFX)
UK - For Spectre Studios, virtual production (VP) is not a new field. Prior to the pandemic, the company was already using real-time engines and virtual production technologies for their work on Hollywood blockbusters and, last year, set up ICVFX full-service LED VP studio in conjunction with Big Picture, part of the NEP Worldwide Network, using Brompton Tessera LED processing power to drive ROE LED panels. The climactic moment for Spectre, however, was in November, when the company participated in Epic Games’