| good evening, i have this odd title "production technologist" which i occasionally find very difficult to explain to people. I'm sure that you know the BBC is a large organisation,, about 30,000 people, and we use technology for production. But in such a big organisation, it can be very difficult to use things ad-hoc, its not just a matter of a production team here using something, and another team using something else. definitely, when you try to be creative and innovative as an organisation, there has to be a strategy about how you go about doing things both in the short term medium term and longer term. so that is the team I'm working in, our group is called 'technology direction' and it provides advice and direction in terms of the technology the BBC is using to continue to be creative in their productions. we also do some of the boring stuff, which has to do with things like what computers the BBC is using, what kind of software, we also look at what kind of technologies are coming out of labs, experimental research around the world, and if we can use some of that to be more innovative. so that is what i will be talking about tonight, mainly about the field of mixed reality and how we chose some parts of this technology to use in television production. | good evening, i have this odd title "production technologist" which i occasionally find very difficult to explain to people. I'm sure that you know the BBC is a large organisation,, about 30,000 people, and we use technology for production. But in such a big organisation, it can be very difficult to use things ad-hoc, its not just a matter of a production team here using something, and another team using something else. definitely, when you try to be creative and innovative as an organisation, there has to be a strategy about how you go about doing things both in the short term medium term and longer term. so that is the team I'm working in, our group is called 'technology direction' and it provides advice and direction in terms of the technology the BBC is using to continue to be creative in their productions. we also do some of the boring stuff, which has to do with things like what computers the BBC is using, what kind of software, we also look at what kind of technologies are coming out of labs, experimental research around the world, and if we can use some of that to be more innovative. so that is what i will be talking about tonight, mainly about the field of mixed reality and how we chose some parts of this technology to use in television production. |