Disguise has received £1.2 Million in funding from Innovate UK and the EU as part of a larger investment into MAX-R.
The MAX-R alliance — which is made up of Disguise, the BBC, ARRI, Improbable, Brainstorm, Foundry, FilmLight, The University of Hasselt, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, CREW and FilmAkademie Baden-Wurtumberg — has already announced its first developments. For Disguise, these are primarily focused on streamlining productions so that filmmakers, live events experts, broadcasters and more can use technologies with fewer licence requirements and other costs.
“MAX-R will offer exciting new opportunities to broaden the way creators and audiences craft, present and interact with digital realities,” said Disguise Chief Collaboration Officer Abi Bowman. “By offering an array of tools to streamline existing ways of working or facilitate exciting new ones, we’re making sure that the next generation of content creators have the tools they need to make the virtual world look and feel as real as the physical one.”