Immersive Education was one of the many companys that I had on my ‘To Visit' list at BETT. Media Stage is a 3D virtual perforamce stage. Users are involved in script-writing, casting, set building, propping, directing, lighting, audio-recording, editing and camera skills:

Immersive Education: Students build and populate their sets, select their characters and arrange lighting and cameras using objects from the software library. Character movements, lighting and cameras are in their full control. Students can:

• Record or type in character dialogue and see it performed with automatic lip-synchronisation
• Control character movements, gestures and emotions
• Set camera positions and live edit
• Save and share performances

John Griffiths from Immersive Education gave me a demonstration of the software. I have to say I was very impressed! It is amazing and almost freaky how realistic you can make your characters. Having an old woman character called Enid say ‘Hello' in my voice was just incredible!

This software will be/is fantastic for role play. In fact I am lead to believe that it is being used with young offenders, making them realise and understand the consequence of their actions on their victims.

Here is a clip that Ewan McIntosh shot during a Teachmeet in 2006 where media stage was being demonstrated. Click here

Here is another clip where the topic was MacBeth. Click Here