Very excited to be offering Virtual Reality experiences to our friends again at The Motor Neurone Disease Association (MNDA) AGM 2018. It has been three years since we first tried out Virtual Reality (VR) with the lovely Sarah Ezekiel in 2016 and we haven’t looked back. Taking people all over the world, from the Northern Lights to Alpine Skiing, there has never been a better... ...
We are very excited to hear that The Big Picture, brain child of Sharon Blackburn CBE has launched and is already having a fantastic reception! Flix was approached earlier in the year with the challenge of creating an animated film that assists in bringing about a change in practice across various Health and Social care services and disciplines, by highlighting where issues in communication and... ...
We were over the moon to receive a fantastic email from Louise Bishop at Greenwich & Bexley Community Hospice recently, letting us know they’d just been awarded funding through the Morrisons Foundation enabling the construction of a much needed new kitchen facility at the hospice. Flix Films had produced a small film, ‘Cooking for Care’, for the hospice to use in support of their bid, and the... ...
With full external ethical approval received, Royal Trinity Hospice yesterday issued their press release detailing the research partnership in VR being undertaken with Flix Films. Leon here at Flix first introduced the management and staff at Trinity to VR around 8 months ago, and although we knew it was destined to be a big thing, we didn’t quite realise how far it would take us,... ...
It’s great to see that the word is spreading around the world regarding the work Flix Films and Royal Trinity Hospice are doing on the utilisation of VR / 360 content for palliative care patients. We’ve had enquiries from all around the globe, and recently Allessandra Allocca from Italy’s La Repubblica came to visit Trinity and report on what’s going on. The video and accompanying... ...
As part of the ongoing 360 VR project work between Flix Films and Royal Trinity Hospice, journalist Molly Gottschalk from Artsy.net recently wrote and published a brilliant piece covering how Virtual Reality is helping hospice patients. Molly interviewed Leon in-depth to fully understand the work Flix and Trinity are undertaking, and as a follow up to the coverage this year on BBC’s Inside Out this... ...
There’s plenty of excitement in the Flix office today with the first setup and test of the new ORAH 360 VR Camera rig. We’ve loads to learn with it, but already it’s live streaming the inside of the office in full 360 with sound – pretty impressive. ...
Apparently we’re not the only ones excited by the potential for Virtual Reality to help people who are affected by health issues. Latest word from the BBC1 Inside Out team is that their recent VR story featuring Flix Films has broken all their records for viewing on their Facebook page – and is on the way to reach 2 million hits! We’re over... ...