We recently partnered with the William Morris Agency, a leading talent and literary agency. (The press release is on our site.) We’re really excited about the new possibilities of this partnership. im360 Studios, which is the entertainment and advertising division of IMC, will be working closely with William Morris to produce entertainment-based Immersive videos. William Morris is a leader in motion pictures, television, music, theater, publishing, commercial endorsements, sports, digital media and video games (that’s a long list!), so definitely stay tuned to see the amazing results that this new partnership will provide.
For those who are interested in the Adobe/Immersive Media presentation from NAB 2008, we’ve now got the the official, high-quality Adobe TV version available. This is the presentation in its entirety from the Adobe TV site, and IMC is featured just a little before the halfway point.
In honor of Earth Day, we’d like to let you know about some things Immersive Media is doing on the environmental front:
- Our production offices are located in Portland, Oregon, which was ranked the #1 most sustainable city in the country.
- Immersive Media’s Portland office is now powered entirely by wind, using Portland General Electric’s Renewable Power program.
- Many of our employees ride their bikes to work. Our central location makes it easy for people to ride from all neighborhoods of the city.
Outside of the office…
Immersive Media has worked, and continues to work, with conservation efforts around the world. Some examples include:
- The deployment of Crittercams on Humpback whales with the Alaska Whale Foundation and National Geographic. (See the demo here). These are used to track the animals and learn more about these amazing creatures. You can read our blog posting about that here.
- Documenting reefs with the Planetary Coral Reef Foundation as part of an ongoing effort to preserve their beauty. You can read our posting on that here, and see a demo here.
- Working as part of environmental remediation at the Hanford Nuclear site, which you can read about here.
We received a comment on our last blog posting asking us for a video of the Adobe presentation. Here’s a video from YouTube that shows what Adobe is talking about this week at the NAB Show in Las Vegas. If you’re there, you still have a chance to catch it, Wednesday at 2:30 and Thursday at 11:30 at booth SL 3220.
This week Immersive Media is exhibiting at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show in Las Vegas. This is one of our favorite conferences because it brings together innovative professionals—directors, visual effects supervisors, filmmakers, interactive producers—representing the television, cinema, broadband and wireless entertainment industries. The theme for the conference is “Where Content Comes to Life” which we think is quite appropriate considering IMC’s focus is exactly that.
This year Adobe is showcasing IMC’s Immersive video in their theatre, “Flash Media Server: High Quality Video on the Web”. The presenter, Kevin Towes, is talking about IMC’s Flash® player and Immersive video as a cool application of the Flash Media Server.
If you’re at NAB this week, be sure to check out the presentation. Adobe is at booth SL3220 in the Lower South Hall. They’re presenting again Tuesday at 3:30 and 5:30, Wednesday at 2:30 and Thursday at 11:30.
We’re in the South Upper Hall at Booth #6005 – come by and see us!
