On April 18th, Radio 2 (VRT) broadcasted the very first radio show in Belgium entirely produced live from a flying hot air balloon.
VRT Sandbox and On-Hertz will now be demonstrating this solution, providing hyper mobility to radio teams, at the Network Technology Seminar (NTS2018) by EBU on June 19 & 20 in Geneva.
Read MoreA visit to Media Honeypot (http://mediahoneypot.com/ ) and YLE, the public broadcaster, brought me to Helsinki.
Media Honeypot started on Wednesday with an opening night. Colleague Judy from BBC was there too and that made the entrance a little easier. I spoke with many people, including the EBU technical committee who went to Helsiki to attend Media Honeypot and for their meeting Friday at YLE. They all turned out to be friendly, interesting people from across Europe. I could not resist and took the opportunity to ask if I could pitch my project to their group that Friday. Check! It was late when we arrived at the hotel again and I could start preparing this unexpected presentation.
Read MoreSTEAMBOX. Science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics, themes that can be found in a box. Or more specifically: a box that prepares you for the technological and scientific challenges of the future.
Read MoreDid you miss Creative Circle? Do you want to relive the atmosphere of the event? Did you forget the names of our team? Good news! Storyteller Fredo made a vlog about our fifth Creative Circle for #vrtforward, our channel for VRT Innovation. Watch it here!
Read More5 European research projects have been approved for funding by the European Commission! One of these projects is called MediaRoad and it focuses on transforming the current approach at VRT Sandbox into a replicable model, allowing for the growth of a European network and a strong innovating European media industry.
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Creating new content, improving workflows and engaging the community. That is what Creative Circle V was about. We are glad to have welcomed all of you and are looking forward to new collaborations! In case you missed it, there was also a junglebox for demo's by our startups.
Read MoreOn the 4th, 5th and 6th of May, the event Hack Belgium takes place in the Tour & Taxis in Brussels. What does this entail? About 1000 people from different fields coming together with the goal of building a better Belgium. Agriculture, health, mobility, economy… You name it, there is no challenge left out. As VRT Sandbox, we are engaged in co-writing the story of media in the future.
Read MoreAt the end of 2016, we teamed up with the Extrema Noir winter music festival to take on the following challenge: to broadcast an hour-long interview via Facebook Live in a driving car, with a multicam program complete with on-air graphics and clip playout.
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