CoSTAR Screen Lab has announced a nationwide funding call.
Ulster University’s CoSTAR Screen Lab has invited creative companies across the UK to explore the power of 5G across the media and entertainment sector with a £70,000 funding call.
Backed by the UKRI Infrastructure Fund, the scheme will select two projects, each of which will receive awards of £35,000 under CoSTAR’s Prototypes and Pilots Programme. The initiative will also provide successful applicants with access to facilities at the organisation’s lab, based in Belfast’s Studio Ulster, which includes a motion capture stage, 3D/4D scanning suite, LED volumes and and a private 5G network.
CoSTAR is inviting applications from projects researching “innovative application and creative use cases for 5G across the screen and performance sectors” including solutions such as:
- Multi-site real time pre-visualisation, production and post-production
- Low latency data transfer in studio environments (LED wall focus)
- Camera tracking
- Automation of LED wall configuration
- High volume, real-time motion capture
- 3D and 4D scanning applications for real time
- Real time spatial audio automation
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications in real time studio environments
Interested companies can find more details at the CoSTAR website.
