Sky’s new virtual reality experience, Hold the World, launched in June 2018, offering the unique opportunity of a one-on-one with the world’s foremost natural history broadcaster, Sir David Attenborough. The ground-breaking interactive experience is the creation of immersive content production studio and creative agency, Factory 42.Hold the World instantly transports the viewer from the comfort of their own home to London’s Natural History Museum, where they can get their hands on rare specimens from its world-famous collection as they go behind the scenes to explore areas usually closed to the public.Commissioned by the Sky VR Studio, Hold the World was produced by immersive content studio Factory 42, in association with Dream Reality Interactive and Talesmith and through collaboration with the Natural History Museum’s digital team. Creature animation was produced by The Mill. The experience was directed by Dan Smith (Factory 42), and executive produced by John Cassy (Factory 42) and Neil Graham (Sky).
In February, BBC Radio 3, BBC Arts and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) announced 2018’s cohort of New Generation Thinkers; ten academics at the start of their careers who have a flair for communicating their research to the public. Over the coming year, those chosen will have the opportunity to make radio and television programmes for the BBC - in particular contributing to Radio 3's Free Thinking.This year’s specialisms cover an eclectic spectrum of the arts and humanities; all with the potential to reach a broad public audience. Some academics are looking afresh at historical topics, with explorations into 18th-century masculinity and the medical history of George Orwell sitting alongside research into early 20th-century vegetarianism in Britain, and how the Ottoman Empire dealt with piracy.Others in the new intake are exploring more contemporary issues, such as the way globalisation is impacting how films are made around the world, or how the ethics of commercial surrogacy in India can be understood.The New Generation Thinkers were selected from hundreds of applications from academics at the start of their careers. Expect to see and hear lots from this talented gang in 2018!
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