When collaboration becomes the demo: Storm ISE

Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) in Barcelona brought together a wide range of technologies and partners across the AV and broadcast ecosystem, and Brainstorm was pleased to be part of the Alfalite stand during the show. Together with Dejero and several other partners, we contributed to the Storm ISE demonstration, a live-streamed, emergency response simulation connecting technologies across multiple booths. Watch here >

Introducing Suite 7 at NAB

Suite 7 brings together the company’s flagship applications, including InfinitySet for virtual and XR production, Aston for real time graphics, and Edison for immersive virtual and AR live events, all powered by the eStudio render engine. This development focuses strongly on efficiency and workflow improvements, enabling advanced virtual production, graphics and AR pipelines to run on a single workstation while making better use of modern GPU architectures. Read the full PR > or Book a meeting >

Opening the doors at Pinewood Studios

Brainstorm hosted an Open House at the Sony Digital Media Production Centre at Pinewood Studios! Attendees were able to explore how virtual production technologies are being used to create high quality content in a flexible and sustainable way, meet fellow innovators, and get inspired by the most advanced tools for virtual content creation. The Open House featured InfintiySet with a dedicated LED screen and Sony’s new Ocellus. Request a demo >

Suite 7 brings together all of the Brainstorm flagship products: InfinitySet, the most advanced virtual, XR and AR production solution; Aston, the designer’s choice for real-time 2D and 3D motion graphics; and Edison, the simple route to immersive virtual and AR live events. These applications can run on eStudio, Brainstorm’s acclaimed render engine, also updated as part of Suite 7. 

“Responding to our users, our goal with Suite 7 is around efficiency and workflows,” said Miguel Churruca, marketing and communications director at Brainstorm. “The new functionalities will make users’ lives easier when creating the most advanced virtual content, no matter the application.” 

With growing pressure on all businesses to embrace sustainability, long a commitment championed by Brainstorm, Suite 7 is focused on hardware and software efficiency and flexibility. It makes seamless use of dual GPU workstations, which boosts the performance of a single licence while minimising hardware footprint and energy costs. 

Integration within the suite delivers the fastest interoperability between the Brainstorm eStudio render engine and Unreal, again for highly efficient performance. In a virtual studio, for example, you can input three cameras, compose them with Unreal and output all three channels simultaneously in a single workstation. Alternatively, the architecture could be used for set extension or multiple AR objects in just one render node on one hardware device. 

InfinitySet and Aston both enjoy better interoperability and have new video wall management features including advanced options for the component graphics such as animated presets and interaction logic between templates. InfinitySet now includes 360˚ output per render, paving the way to content for virtual glasses. 

As well as new features like QuickStart and Teleporter for automatic talent tracking with 4k cameras, Edison now has a lite version. Eddie is specifically oriented towards education, while still being able to call on all the other elements of the Edison ecosystem. 

“Virtual environments, including augmented reality, are a central part of production for broadcast, movies, live events and AV,” added Churruca. “With Suite 7 we are liberating creativity by giving artists and designers the tools they need, which are responsive, fast to output, and make significant strides towards sustainability.” 

See Brainstorm Suite 7 at NAB Show 2026 on booth N2352 and find out more at brainstorm3d.com

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As LED-based XR is becoming increasingly used, Brainstorm has developed new features that allow for easier, faster and more integrated creation of immersive XR content specifically designed to be displayed on large LED videowalls. With these features, Brainstorm’s clients will see their XR content creation significantly accelerated when creating in-context AR in LED walls, XR Set extensions, or even backgrounds for film and drama production. Suite 5 has a dedicated interface for creating XR installations, which allows for modelling any kind of video wall, including curved, shaped and corner installations, and map the desired 3D content in such model. This facilitates the creation of virtual AR content to be directly displayed and seen by the camera with the correct perspective at all times. Also, by taking advantage of the Layers and Stacking features of InfinitySet, different renders, even with different resolutions and aspect ratios, can be mapped in a canvas of any size and aspect.

In addition, the unique integration of InfinitySet and eStudio with Unreal Engine is now even tighter, allowing for the inclusion of fully editable Brainstorm scenes and templates within an Unreal project, and vice-versa. This is especially useful when creating AR projects within Unreal, which benefit from Brainstorm’s advanced data-driven graphics and broadcast workflows compatibility. This is coupled with the acclaimed UnrealControl feature which supports editing the Unreal Projects directly within InfinitySet’s familiar interface with total ease and control of blueprints, objects and parameters. Suite 5 also features a new, redesigned internal chroma keyer that includes a new mode that embeds the Unreal Engine chroma keyer directly into InfinitySet. Brainstorm Suite 5 is fully compatible with Unreal Engine 4.27 and will be with UE 5.

“Brainstorm has been deeply involved with Augmented Reality and Virtual Production for decades now, and Suite 5 is the result of applying our expertise to the new display methods that broadcasters and filmmakers are introducing into their workflows” says Hector Viguer, Brainstorm’s COO and Engineering Director. “The advanced features of Suite 5 will allow any user to comply with any kind of VR/AR/XR requirement, regardless of how complex it is, and leaving them free to choose the production workflow they feel is best for their production, whether LED walls or chroma keying. We want to be agnostic so we can provide a solution for any requirement.”

Some other features are included, like improved HDR workflows, and better integration with robotic heads from manufacturers such as Panasonic or Sony. Also, Edison, the company’s virtual studio in a box product designed for live events and presentations, will also benefit from some of the above plus its own features as a result of its upgrade to V5.

Brainstorm Suite 5 will be available on March 1st, and will also be demonstrated at NAB 2022 at the Brainstorm booth N2608.

Despite delaying the decision in the hope that NAB  2021 would be the opportunity to again meet with customers, partners, providers, and the market in general, the current situation is so uncertain in terms of travel bans, social distancing, and other health and safety measures, that Brainstorm has reluctantly decided to withdraw from the exhibition. For Brainstorm the well-being of its staff, visitors and others involved in the Show is of paramount importance, for which the decision, although extremely difficult, was made with everyone’s health and safety uppermost in mind.

Brainstorm appreciates the enormous efforts that the NAB committee has made to ensure a safe show, however we must face the fact that the situation in the wider world is outside of their control.

According to Ricardo Montesa, CEO and founder of Brainstorm, “It is with great regret that we announce this decision not to attend NAB 2021, but the safety of our staff, customers and partners is the driving force behind it, despite the new features and announcements we had in mind for the Show. Since 1995 we have been exhibiting with great success, and as members of NAB we are very much looking forward to exhibiting at NAB 2022.”

Brainstorm is already beginning to work on its participation at NAB 2022, in the hope that it will represent the return of the shows as we know them.

Ricardo Montesa is passionate about innovation. His studies in Industrial Engineering culminated in a graphics proposal for the audiovisual world. Little time was needed for that inner strength to become Brainstorm, a pioneer in the world of graphics, data visualisation, 3D objetcs and, more recently, augmented reality and the optimisation of resources with virtual sets.

“Thank you very much for this distinction, which surprises me personally” said Montesa, moved by the distinction.

Ricardo, university professor, project leader, a man of our time and our corridors, is undoubtedly a pillar of innovation in this industry, who uses his ideas, and shows them from virtual sets, with amazing scenarios created by software , to add – who would say – much more magic to TV.

Ricardo Montesa (Valencia, 1960) is the CEO of Brainstorm, a provider of real-time interactive 3D graphics solutions. He achieved an Industrial Engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. After his final degree project, he founded Montesa Grafics, a company dedicated to the development of specific software for real-time 3D and 2D rendering of graphics, mainly aimed at contests and elections.

In 1993 he founded, with other partners, Brainstorm Multimedia, a company of which he has been CEO and Director of Development ever since. Under his direction, Brainstorm presented and began marketing the software called eStudio in 1994, currently the world’s reference for the generation of real-time 3D graphics and virtual scenery, including applications for sports and electoral events.

Between 1996 and 1997 he joined George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) company in San Rafael, California, as a software developer for special effects. After his American experience, he returned to Spain to retake the technical direction of Brainstorm, directing the design and development of the applications created by the company, applications that are used today in many of the largest and most prestigious television networks around the world such as BBC (UK), NHK (JP), KBS (KO), NBC (USA), RTL (DE) and TVE (ES).

Ricardo Montesa is an experienced speaker with outstanding teaching experience at the University, and his vision has led Brainstorm to be awarded for its innovative work on numerous occasions”.

*Extracted from the PRODU news piece.

*The awards show was entirely produced using Edison PRO, Brainstorm’s brand new product for live virtual events and presentations. Watch following the whole PRODU Tecnología Awards Ceremony.

InfinitySet can receive the video and tracking information from the Sony cameras and render the virtual scene or the AR objects in real-time, even using photorealistic rendering and Unreal Engine, which creates a stunning visual experience for the viewers, affordable at the same time for any kind of production facility or broadcaster. On top of that, Brainstorm allows the Sony camera remote control RM-IP500 to direct InfinitySet’s virtual cameras. InfinitySet is the only virtual set and AR solution that allows this feature, allowing operators to run complex 3D virtual scenery in a familiar production environment.

In combination with InfinitySet, the BRC-H800 and X1000 are a powerful solution for enhancing storytelling and providing in-context AR graphics from external data sources, due to the advanced features of InfintySet, resulting from Brainstorm’s experience of more than 25 years in the development of real-time 3D graphics, virtual set and augmented reality solutions. The resulting workflow brings advanced AR to companies of any size and budget, by providing a PTZ tracking workflow that avoids the hassle of more complex tracking systems.

“Many of our products and solutions are built with modality and integration in mind so we’re always delighted to see them integrated in new and innovative workflows that broaden creative possibilities for producers and operators. Brainstorm has a series of truly distinctive software for virtual and AR set ups and we’re glad to be partnering with them here”, commented Norbert Paquet, Head of Live Production, Sony Professional Europe.

According to Thierry Gonzalo, Brainstorm’s Product Manager, “Our seamless integration with the Sony BRC camera line-up provides companies of any size to accomplish projects involving virtual sets and AR requirements, by using the PTZ tracking data and exceptional image quality from such cameras. Also, our ability to allow the Sony camera control to command InfinitySet’s production mode permits live production operators with no experience in virtual environments to run any virtual or AR show with total ease”.

Brainstorm and Sony will demonstrate this integration in a public webinar scheduled for March 5th, 2021, so anyone that wants to know more about this advanced workflow can register here.

UNITEL decided to carry out a technological migration in favour of Brainstorm in 2019, which culminated in the electoral process of the same year. In the 2020 Elections, InfinitySet and Aston have been key to the generation of the graphics based on real-time data and their representation in the form of augmented reality shown in interaction with the channel anchors.

“Brainstorm’s technology, with InfinitySet and Aston, allows us to inform and deliver the data in an accurate, didactic and entertaining way with virtual elements, augmented reality and on-air graphics in real time with data of the result of the surveys and the official counts of the day of the election. Once again, UNITEL is a leader in the development of election graphics with the help of Brainstorm technology. We are proud to have been able to present the information in an attractive and understandable way to our audience,” says Andrés Guerra Vergara, Director of Production and Programming at UNITEL.

According to Sergio Amuchastegui, Brainstorm’s Sales Manager for Latin America and the Caribbean, “UNITEL’s process in Bolivia began in March 2019 when, after more than 10 years of using a technology that is now out of the market, the Interdisciplinary group made up of UNITEL producers, engineers and, of course, administrators, decided to give Brainstorm their trust for their stations in Santa Cruz, La Paz and Cochabamba. This pandemic has not taken us away from our clients, but on the contrary, it has brought us closer every day and we continue with projects of this level that we will soon discolse”.

Despite the pandemic caused by the COVID-19, Brainstorm had the opportunity to provide online support to UNITEL’s excellent team to ensure that the latest technologies presented by the Spanish brand were used to their full potential, thus providing the best possibilities for this electoral coverage.

Brainstorm has taken the necessary steps to ensure that our staff worldwide can work remotely to prevent contamination, so customer support, development and commercial activities will not be affected by the situation derived from any restrictions that might be taken due to the pandemic.

Communications via web, email, phone or social media will be active as usual, and our staff will be available 100% to manage any queries. We will, of course, reinforce our online channels and activities, so that users, customers and new enquiries can be attended to as they deserve, with increased online demonstrations, webinars and product information.

Last but not least, we are working with industry organizations such as the NAB, IBC, IABM and many others, as well as with our industry partners, resellers and specialized media to continue to manage current activities and adapt our communication and related strategies to guarantee the continued effectiveness of our future activities to the benefit of all those we work with.

Ricardo Montesa, Brainstorm’s CEO and founder.

“Our clients have increasingly demanding requirements for graphics and virtual reality, and we found Brainstorm the perfect partner to fulfil such needs” says Nevil Appleton, Director and Co-founder of MOOV. “Along with its flexibility, reliability and clever integration of Unreal Engine, Brainstorm also has proven and robust data integration which allows us to further expand the system’s capabilities and match our requirements.”

With arguably the most advanced real-time 3D motion graphics feature set, Brainstorm’s Combined Render Engine with Unreal Engine is unique in the industry as it seamlessly combines the most advanced data-driven graphics creation with the photorealistic backgrounds rendered with Unreal Engine, all in a simplified workflow involving a single workstation. Also, the ability of Aston to render PBR materials allows for CG and motion graphics to matching the hyper-realistic results obtained with Unreal Engine, which results in a seamless integration between the different objects from different applications.

According to David Alexander, Brainstorm’s Commercial Director, “Our heritage and experience of over 25 years in developing advanced real-time graphics and virtual sets applications were crucial in achieving this agreement. In essence, Brainstorm’s solutions, providing state-of-the-art, photorealistic results combining on-screen graphics and augmented reality objects in hyper-realistic virtual sets that are indistinguishable from reality, were key factors in reaching a decision to cement a long-term partnership between our two companies”.

Founded in 2000 by Duncan Foot & Nev Appleton, MOOV is a sports and events graphics company that delivers a high-quality, all-round graphics solution coupled with excellent multi-skilled operational staff. The company is recognised for its innovation and design, participating in high-profile sporting events including Wimbledon, The Grand National, Commonwealth Games, Winter and Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. MOOV provides services to UK and International broadcasters such as BBC, BT Sport ITV, and Channel 4, to name just a few.

For the launch of the channel, Brainstorm has provided the equipment for the virtual studios, including 4 InfinitySet systems for fixed and tracked cameras with Stype, as well as several Aston and OnDemand stations, for the creation and play-out of advanced graphics. Brainstorm has been the ideal partner for Teletec to accomplish a project never seen before in Mexico, which combines Brainstorm’s patented TrackFree technology with Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. With all this, La Octava will deliver to the viewer hyper-realistic quality 3D sets in real time, without having to combine real sets with green screens.

Also, Brainstorm’s Production Department has collaborated in the creation of numerous Aston graphics templates and a variety of photorealistic virtual sets in Unreal, to facilitate the implementation of the system, as well as several movies designed for virtual TeleTransporter projects. Attending to the client’s needs, Brainstorm’s Production Department has created a clean, fresh and unique look in Mexico, and these creative services have been crucial in completing the installation in record time.

“We have achieved all this in just one month with all the support of our partner Teletec, who managed to build a synergy with the client that enabled this project to become a reality. The growth and success of La Octava is guaranteed thanks to their anchors and these 100% photo-realistic virtual sets, the first in Mexico”, states Sergio Amuchastegui from Brainstorm Latin America.

This installation adds to the excellent results that Brainstorm Latin America is obtaining in 2019, where the company is growing for the third consecutive year, attaining a sales record thanks to the trust of clients such as Turner Argentina, Turner Chile, UNITEL Bolivia and now Grupo Radio Centro in Mexico.