The IBC Accelerators is celebrating its sixth year of bringing together broadcast and media tech innovators to collaborate and explore solutions to real-world challenges. As twelve shortlisted teams get ready to pitch their projects at the Accelerator Kickstart Day on 6 March, with a view to presenting demo PoC’s to an international audience at IBC2024, IBC365 asked last year’s Participants about the doors that the programme has opened and their biggest lessons learned.
Alumni members from two projects in 2023; 5G Motion Capture for Live Performance and Animation and Gallery Agnostic Live Production, shared their insight and experience.
Technology for Human Empathy
Echoing the programme’s ethos of collaboration, judges at last year’s Kickstart Day found synergies between two of the project pitches and the workstreams were merged. Roch Nakajima, President, Noitom International, Inc, was on one of the workstreams for 5G Motion Capture for Live Performance & Animation. Their focus was the inclusion and accessibility of children’s entertainment by leveraging 5G technology, regardless of location. He explained: “(2024) is our third year participating in the IBC Accelerators. Our project this time focused on delivering ground-breaking, real-time interactive animation to children in long-term cancer treatment.”...
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