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Play along: Virtual Orchestra – Philharmonia Orchestra
Working closely with the Philharmonia through 2025 and 2026, Meta Camera have built ‘Play along: Virtual Orchestra’ which is being launched at the Southbank Centre. It’s an exciting, hands-on journey that invites you to pick up a virtual instrument and play alongside the full symphony orchestra. Designed with families in mind, this immersive experience welcomes…
Filming Chornobyl in 12.5K: Inside the Meta Three’s Major Documentary Shoot
When Visualise was commissioned by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to mark 40 years since the Chornobyl disaster, the brief was clear: take audiences inside places almost no one will ever stand. The control room of Reactor 3, identical to the one where the 1986 accident began. The interior of the New Safe…
SmartPin Golf Camera Used on ‘TGL’
A broadcast-ready 360° camera built into the flagstick – delivering a clean, never-before seen POV from the hole for live sport coverage. SmartPin Cam – developed by Meta Camera with SmartPin Golf – continues to feature in TGL broadcasts in the US, bringing viewers right onto the green with a flag pole POV. The system…
Meta Four used on ‘Touching the Sky VR’
Our new stereoscopic 360° system, the Meta Four, helped capture high-alpine paragliding and wingsuit sequences for Meta and Red Bull’s VR release, enabling high quality picture, clean stitches and natural depth on headset. Touching the Sky VR is a collaboration between Meta and Red Bull, produced by Jonathan Griffith Productions and featuring paraglider Aaron Durogati…
Living with the Snow Leopards
Meta Camera have been working with NowHere Media to capture footage in the Himalayas featuring Snow Leopards, their environments and local people. The project has been predominantly shot with the Meta Four camera. ‘Living with the Snow Leopards’ (working title) is a mixed reality documentary that explores the complex relationship between the human inhabitants of…
Saturday Night Live 50 Shot on the Meta Four Camera
The special event – SNL50 was captured for the first time in 360 degree video. We’re delighted to say it was with our flagship stereoscopic (3D) camera – the Meta Four. There were cameras in different positions on the edge of stage and in the audience. Looking behind you, you can see the who’s who…
Meta Camera Produce Golf Flag Pole Camera
Say hello to ‘SmartPin’ the world’s first live broadcast 360 video camera for flag poles. Developed by Meta Camera, with SmartPin Golf, this camera provides the ultimate POV for watching the final moments of a hole. Debut at TGL in Florida, the camera system has been gaining plaudits from around the worlds of golf and…
Philharmonia Orchestra VR Experience Now Live!
This September, at the Southbank Centre in London, the Philharmonia Orchestra is launching it’s latest VR experience. Shot by Meta Camera and with a custom VR ‘conductor’ app too, people can experience ‘Sibelius’ like never before. Up to 10 people at a time can sit within the speaker array and have a completely synchronised version…
Meta Three Used on Award Winning Netflix Deep Dive
Netflix have recently used the Meta Three on their deep dive in to VFX on the Witcher series. Working with Workhouse, Meta Camera provided the Meta Three, the operator and stitching services on the production. The film won the people’s choice Webby award! https://winners.webbyawards.com/2024/video/general-video/trailer/288772/the-witcher-s3-immersive-scene-deep-dive
Meta Camera used on ‘The Greatest Beer Run Ever’
Meta Cameras are being used in virtual productions internationally. One of the latest projects to go live is the Hollywood production ‘The Greatest Beer Run Ever’. This film used a number of scenes with a helicopter flying over ‘Vietnam’. The 360 footage was actually shot over Thailand on a drone and then used in a…