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The last week at BOM in photos. 👀 From photoshoots for an upcoming project, to celebrating Ebenezer’s last day at BOM, our bootcampers heard from Csaba, MD of Sponge Hammer Games followed by a team day out at the Photography and Video Show at the NEC, it's been a busy one!

@OldStationSt You picked up on the horror vibes then! 😂

@BOMlab Definitely getting murdered in one of those. Absolutely not staying in a shed in the middle of a forest in the dark.

How cool do these sheds look? Created to demonstrate what the participants have learnt so far on the bootcamp, it’s a taster of what they’re able to create for their final projects. Join us on 16th April, to see what the cohort creates! Free tickets: bit.ly/4b0M0j5

We’re excited to partner with @MyBCU on a PhD Studentship for the project ‘Playing in Public: Game-Based Interventions for Sustainability, Community and Environmental Engagement'. Applications close 10th April. All details can be found here: bit.ly/4upSBMX

We celebrated our Powering Up programme with a showcase! Funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, the programme is designed to empower and inspire Black children in Birmingham schools. A big shout-out to our learning and engagement team for delivering 3 successful years! 🔥

This is what week 10 on our Immersive Arts Bootcamp looks like, and these aren’t even their final projects! 🤩 Come and join us on Thursday 16th April at the Bootcamp Showcase to see what the cohort creates! Free tickets: bit.ly/4b0M0j5

Bootcamp alumni spotlight! 👀 Jeff Chilberto created ‘Crap Taxidermy’ on our Immersive Arts Bootcamp and it's available on the Meta Store! Have fun creating your own taxidermy, complete with props and poses. Have a play and let Jeff know what you think. bit.ly/3OZlCyH

A look back at a week at BOM! 🤩 We’ve been testing out the Apple Vision Pro, had a visit from @psiconlab 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.

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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!

Part of what made working on visualization for @SinnersMovie so fast was access to the Fab Marketplace and Quixel Megascans from within Unreal Engine. Find out how academy award nominated VFX Supervisor Michael Ralla and Emmy award winning Visualization Supervisor Pepe Valencia were able to assemble their vision in real-time in our Fireside Chat here: youtu.be/lUKR7lZoFYI

Welcome to the National Digital Inclusion Network! Some new members: @changegrowlive, @AberdeenCC, @DPT_NHS, @Surrey_AL and @BOMlab. Here's to fixing the digital divide together! Join the Network to deliver digital support at goodthingsfoundation.org/network.

Spotlight on a busy day at BOM! 🔦 Our Games Artist, Clodagh is working on illustrations for a client, a visit to Great Barr Street for a bat inspection, an intensive day for our Immersive Arts Bootcampers and 3D Specialist, Gurvinder working on an upcoming project....

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, located just a 2-min walk from Birmingham New St Station. Find out more 👉🏼 bit.ly/4hSWILE

Our Immersive Trainer, Akshay Raman, recently visited the @BSC_EXPO. 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 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 @Arup, @WestMids_CA, Create Central, @ace_national, 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 @jezc from @brummusicpics in to record some audio and video for a project we’re collaborating on. We spot some excellent dance moves….