The aim of this competition is to support business focused research and innovation in the creative industries in the West of England.

MyWorld supports the generation of innovative ideas and solutions for the creative industries. It addresses the need to develop diverse technologies associated with:

• the capture, manipulation, distribution and consumption of experiences effectively
• the understanding of audiences' responses-to and interactions-with those experiences

This includes the requirement to deliver adaptive audience experiences efficiently, at scale and quality across a multitude of devices.

Your project must:

• provide solutions that tackle new or emerging challenges or needs of the Creative Continuum
• demonstrate a realistic potential to deliver business growth, scale up, and job creation
• actively share knowledge and outputs with the MyWorld programme and wider creative technology industry

MyWorld will select and fund a range of projects from the applications received.

We want to fund a variety of projects across different technologies, markets, technological maturities and research categories. We call this a portfolio approach.

Your project must focus on screen based and immersive technologies within the creative sector industries.

Creating experiences:

How acquisition, production and delivery relate to narrative, aesthetic and content type in modulating experience, leading to new intelligent acquisition and production methods that facilitate immersion.

For example:

• utilising machine learning for virtual human capture
• rigging and animation
• low light video acquisition and restoration
• creation and testing of automated physical platforms for cameras
• refining motion capture data with machine learning and large datasets

Delivering experiences:

Platforms, network technology and representations that support new forms of content delivery and interactivity, delivery processes that ensure the preservation of immersive properties during transmission.

For example:

• developing Mobile Edge Computing to support enhanced location accuracy
• improved latency
• media aware network slicing
• exploiting the potential of deep learning for enhancing video compression

Measuring experiences:

Perceptually robust means of assessing media quality and immersion that inform creative practice and editorial decision making and that differentiate the impacts of technology and narrative.

For example:

• creation of new tools and platforms for audience assessment
• assessment of existing tools and platforms

We define screen based and immersive experiences as multisensory narrative or interactive experiences mediated through technologies including:

• ambisonic and binaural sound
• application of Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to creative technology
• audience assessment, measurement tools and platforms
• distribution technologies, 5G, EDGE,
• filming and post production tools, including virtual production studios, drones, robotics,
• haptics and other sensory interfaces
• virtual, mixed and augmented reality (VR, AR, MR)
• other creative, content and screen experiences and interfaces, including but not limited to, public displays, live events, theatre, cinema, hybrid performance, emerging devices, for example: AR glasses

Examples of the industry sectors this may address include:

• advertising and marketing
• design, product, graphic and fashion
• broadcast, film, TV, video and audio
• computer games and services
• heritage, museums, archives, galleries and libraries
• live events, music, performing and visual arts
• sports and esports
• creator tools and services, including user generated
• production and consumer electronics

Neither list is intended to be exhaustive.

We will consider all proposals that address the challenge areas and meet the criteria for eligibility.