Ulster Touring Opera (UTO), the cross-border cultural opera company based in Belfast recently completed a project funded by Future Screens NI’s Future Creatives project exploring the technical and logistic feasibility of creating volumetric footage in-house with the aim to commission and create new opera experiences specifically for the medium, such as their Teeny Tiny Opera. UTO believes that reaching this level of access will increase the size and diversity of our live and online audience, as well as increasing the resilience of their company by providing this new expertise as a service for other cultural organisations.
UTO Artistic Director Dafydd Hall Williams was invited to join the Depthkit Pilot Program as a Program Partner. Depthkit Studio is R&D software developed by the company Scatter which allows portable volumetric capture for full-body 3D video. This transformative program is accessible by invitation only, and while the program has numerous members worldwide including in the UK, Dafydd was the first program member on the island of Ireland, and UTO was the first opera company in the world.
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The Future Creatives scheme was designed to enable participants to make a step change in their research and innovation by enhanced leadership and collaboration skills and developing new practices in the field of creativity and technology.