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Canon x Volucap
Future of Immersive Imaging with Canon and Volucap CANON AT VOLUCAP With Canon's professional lenses, the production team was able to capture and convey the message of the video with [...]
Deepfakes in the Metaverse
The world's first volumetric live deepfake! XR DAYS - BREAK NEW GROUND "The metaverse is coming - and it's going to be big": The motto was the program. At the "Break [...]
Potato Jet gets volucapped
Potato Jet gets volucapped Los Angeles YouTuber Gene Nagata, known as Potato Jet, is best known for his relevant and entertaining content about filmmaking and camera gear. His witty videos [...]
6G NeXt – Next evolution of mobile communication
6G NeXt - The 6th generation mobile communications Volucap is part of the research project within the funding measure "6G industrial projects for research into holistic systems and sub-technologies for [...]
Volucap joins Qualcomm´s pathfinder
Volucap becomes part of Qualcomm's pathfinder program Today at AWE in Santa Clara, CA, USA, Hugo Swart (the GM of Qualcomm's XR Business Group) announced in his keynote that Volucap is [...]
T-Mobile Unleashes Innovators to Drive 5G Forward
Volucap and T-Mobile Unleashes Innovators to Drive 5G Forward In an event from T-Mobile’s new innovation center, T-Mobile executives today unveiled a series of moves and partnerships called 5G Forward, all [...]
4D People are out now
Volucap Introduces 4D People Volucap, Germany's first volumetric video capture studio, has teamed up with Renderpeople to offer 4D People, the first high-resolution people with full motion detail. Founded in 2018 by shareholders [...]
South by Southwest – SXSW 2022
South by Southwest - SXSW 2022 German Pavilion SXSW in Austin/Texas focuses on the digital economy and the music, film and interactive media industries, which are continuously being [...]
Matrix 4
Volucap provide post production and digital effects for Matrix 4 The long-anticipated fourth part of the Matrix film franchise will be released internationally on 22 December and will also open in German cinemas [...]
Volucap joins Qualcomm´s Snapdragon Spaces programm
Volucap joins Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer Platform Global semiconductor company Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., has introduced Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer Platform, a headworn Augmented Reality (AR) developer kit designed to enable [...]
Margot Friedländer – Holocaust Survivor hologram
Creating holograms of holocaust survivors With Margot Friedländer, the recordings for the first volumetric contemporary witness archive began, enabling a new dimension of remembrance culture. So far two-dimensional content has been used to [...]
Let the dead live on as avatars – ZDF Nano
Let the dead live on as avatars ZDF Nano reports on the opportunities and challenges that could arise from combining new technologies with our culture of remembrance. Letting the dead live on as [...]
Virtual Production meets Volumetric Capture
The capital region is a promoter and innovative driver of new technologies. In addition to the volumetric studio Volucap, which has been a flagship for the region's innovative strength since 2018, and the LED [...]
Volucap is looking for models
Since we already see a high demand for digital humans and expect it to increase in the coming time, we want to make sure that we can offer our clients a wide range of types. [...]
Presenting Volucap at the Laval Virtual conference
There are conferences and expos which simply don't work when people cannot be around to try out, touch and feel products and beginn client meetings with traditional handshakes. Just imagine how much fun an [...]
“The Evolution of Volumetric Capture” at Click & Connect
The Digital Hub Initiative of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy hosted the virtual conference Click & Connect on June 2, 2021. The one-day conference brought together the entire ecosystem of [...]
Volumetric research for INVICTUS continues – Dr. Claudia Banz
Together with Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Volucap has recorded another set of volumetric capture data at the unmatched Volucap studio in Babelsberg, Germany. This time, the person to stand inside the studio and to [...]
Extending the “Zeitzeugen” project with Dr. Eva Umlauf – Holocaust survivor
Another historical milestone has taken place at Volucap. Extending the “Zeitzeugen” project, Volucap volumetrically captured the memories and experiences of Holocaust survivor Dr. Eva Umlauf. “The number on your forearm is blue like your [...]
Volucap’s expertise at the XR Week 2021
During the XR Week 2021 Volucap took part in a panel discussion on XR Startups and spread the word about the technology of volumetric capture. Recently many acquisitions have changed the XR market. Within [...]
World’s first dynamic photorealistic volumetric wedding
The world's first dynamic photorealistic volumetric wedding has taken place at Volucap! With cases like this, Volucap is expanding its experience and knowledge of creating realistic digital avatars from moving humans despite different requirements. [...]
Providing data for research towards real-time AI humans with Neural Lumigraph Rendering
Despite the current wave of interest in Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), a technology capable of creating AI-generated 3D environments and objects, this new approach to image synthesis technology still requires a great deal of [...]
Contributing to research of volumetric capture and editing tools – INVICTUS
Another successful day of volumetric video production has taken place at the Volucap studio in Babelsberg, Germany. In cooperation with Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Volucap contributed its expertise and facilities to the research of [...]
Why Virtual Reality is becoming more than a toy
Join the German TV channel „ntv" in exploring the world of Virtual Reality and Extended Reality in general. Volucap welcomed the team at the cutting-edge volumetric capture studio in Babelsberg, Germany, where we scan [...]
Nreal Light to launch in Europe and US with tagesschau 2025
At MWC Shanghai 2021, our partner Nreal announced that its “Nreal Light” mixed reality glasses will launch in Europe and the US in the second quarter of 2021. Currently the device, which is already [...]
Bringing Rolf Zuckowski’s new song book to life with Augmented Reality
In collaboration with the Deutsche Pappebuch Gesellschaft, Volucap has developed an AR app for a new children’s songbook by Rolf Zuckowski and Sarah Settgast. With the app, every page in the book comes to [...]
Volucap at the MWC Shanghai 2021
We are very proud to have been represented with our use case tagesschau 2025 at the booth of our partner Nreal, which presented its latest products. MWC Shanghai 2021 set a new standard for [...]
Gründer & Zünder – Der Startup Podcast
Volucap's CEO Sven Bliedung was a guest on Florian Kandler's startup podcast. They talk about volumetric video technology and where the industry is heading.
Job Description – Volumetric XR / VFX Artist
VOLUMETRIC XR / VFX ARTIST (M/F/D) We offer a position in volumetric imaging for use in feature films, virtual productions as well as augmented and virtual reality environments to expand or lead our VFX [...]
Light on! The power of volumetric capture – Arte TWIST
How can we deal with the flood of information that overtakes us each and every day? With knowledge? With power? The German-French TV channel „Arte" explores this in Potsdam, the capital of the Enlightenment, [...]
Volucap has won the Innovation Award Berlin Brandenburg
Innovationspreis Berlin Brandenburg On 27.11.2020 the "Innovationspreis Berlin Brandenburg" was awarded for the 36th time. This makes it the oldest of its kind in the region. The aim of the [...]
Volucap uses Microsoft’s Azure processing pipeline for scalable cloud computing
Volucap, Germany’s first volumetric video capture studio, has partnered with Microsoft and use their Mixed Reality Capture Studios Azure processing pipeline for scalable cloud computing. Founded in 2018 by shareholders ARRI Cine Technik and [...]
Covid-19 – We are open
The current pandemic has become a catalyst for digitization and offers the opportunity to test and optimize the diverse areas of application of media technologies. Our team at Volucap has [...]
Exclusive tour with media political speakers from Brandenburg
On Tuesday, September 8, 2020, we invited the media policy spokespersons* of their parliamentary groups to an exclusive tour on behalf of the MediaTech Hub Potsdam. Ingo Senftleben (CDU faction) and Erik Stohn (SPD [...]
Volucap receives the Aurea Award
On January 16, 2020, the AUREA Award was presented for the second time during an international conference. Pioneers in the field of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) came together to meet colleagues [...]
Volucap in conversation at the MTH Conference 2019
Together with Sarah Vick (Head of Business for Intel Studios), Sven Bliedung (CEO of Volucap) was a guest at the MTH Conference 2019. They discussed use cases for industry applications and entertainment and shared [...]
Starting the “Zeitzeugen” project with Ernst Grube – Holocaust survivor
He is one of the last Jewish survivors of the Holocaust: Ernst Grube. The story of the Munich native has now been immortalized in Babelsberg. The UFA has recorded the short film "Ernst Grube [...]
Die Fantastischen Vier – Fantaventura
At the IFA, Telekom presented the virtual reality work "The Fantastic VR - Fantaventura". The production took place in the Berlin Volucap Studios. The world's first VR experience of a band in 6DoF (Six [...]
Arri and Volucap: International Broadcast Day
Arri and Volucap invited to the second International Broadcast Day. The event aims to promote the development and marketing of Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR) and Virtual Reality (VR) in content production. Leading experts [...]
Female art meets Augmented Reality
The Future of Art Since May 4th 2019, Villa Schöningen in Potsdam is hosting the group exhibition called Nude - Female Bodies By Female Artists. More than forty works by 31 international female artists [...]
King Willem Alexander and Queen Maxima at Volucap
The Volucap got royal visit from the Netherlands. His Majesty King Willem-Alexander and Her Majesty Queen Máxima visited Volucap at 22 May 2019. They were be accompanied by an economic mission of the media and [...]
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
From silent film to volumetric video Virtual reality was yesterday. In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Warsaw, UFA X is producing a "walk-in film" entitled "The Dream of Cesare" as a free adaptation and politically [...]
Volucap receives “VR Technology Award” and “VR NOW Grand Prize” at the VR NOW Awards
At the 3rd International VR NOW Awards for Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality, Augmented Reality and 360 degree video in Potsdam-Babelsberg, the volumetric video studio Volucap, in whose development the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute was [...]
IBC 2018 Future Zone featuring Volucap
IBC 2018 FUTURE ZONE FEATURING VOLUCAP Walkable movies and interactive stories are now broadening our reality and bringing completely new forms of storytelling. The viewer can freely move around actors as [...]
Volumetric studio openes in Babelsberg just outside Berlin
Volumetric studio openes in Babelsberg just outside Berlin High profile consortium Volucap starts first commercial volumetric video studio on the European continent New stereoscopic depth technology enables innovative forms of presentation for [...]
Walk-in movie “An Entire Lifetime” honored
April 5, 2018 The joint production of UFA and Fraunhofer HHI receives Laval Virtual Award 2018 On the occasion of the 100th birthday of the UFA, the walk-in film "An Entire Lifetime" premiered in the [...]
Virtual Humans aired on 3Sat
Virtual reality is a hit on the news To be or not to be? in the virtual rooms of volumetric films this existential question arises in a very special way. this report informs about the [...]
Sven Bliedung, CEO at Volucap
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