Inside Dimension, Europe’s amazing volumetric capture studio for AR and VR

It was with some confusion that I walked into a bustling lumberyard on the London outskirts of Wimbledon yesterday afternoon. Syren developer Hammerhead had promised something amazing to show me, but as I walked past lorries shifting materials and workers digging into fry-ups, I’d begun to wonder exactly what could be so spectacular. Then, like stepping through a portal into another world, I stumbled into Europe’s amazing new volumetric capture studio, Dimension.

In a huge room in a corner of the park sits this colossal new rig, assembled with the help of technology innovation center, Digital Catapult and built to Microsoft’s mixed reality specifications as seen in its own Redmond and San Francisco studios. Hammerhead is operating the rig, which clients can rent out to record content for whatever experience they may be building. This makes Hammerhead the first Microsoft mixed reality capture software licensee in the UK.