The company has been awarded a grant to develop an Unreal Engine-based template solution

Brainstorm is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a MegaGrant from Epic Games for the development of Edison, a new Unreal Engine-based template and AR solution targeting the education sector. This new solution will further extend the already deep integration of other Brainstorm products with Unreal Engine, especially InfinitySet, for photorealistic virtual sets and augmented reality applications.

Edison is a new approach to education and the world of presentations as it is designed with ease of use in mind, giving non-expert users the flexibility and freedom to build highly advanced and visually engaging presentations. Edison enables presenters to use existing PPT or PDF files in immersive environments with photo-realistic backgrounds and augmented reality content. Key to the creative powers of the Edison is that it allows the presenters to also be included in such 3D environments with total ease.

Edison is the brainchild of 25 years of experience that Brainstorm has built up in broadcast quality virtual sets and real-time 3D graphics. This new audience is a wide-ranging user base consisting of teachers, lecturers and educators of all kinds and extends out to include those involved in live events and corporate presentations, and all the way through to YouTubers and internet entrepreneurs across multiple sectors. This breadth of user profiles have the same essential need – a sophisticated, yet simple to operate, toolset which will empower them to greatly enhance their presentations, with the objective of better informing and educating their audiences in captivating ways.

According to Ricardo Montesa, Brainstorm’s CEO and founder, “we are delighted with our existing partnership with Epic Games and the integration with Unreal Engine for our current product range, and so excited to receive this MegaGrant for developing Edison. We are sure this product will revolutionize education by using advanced, photorealistic AR, and will also provide new virtual presentation capabilities to other markets such as events, corporate and live presentations, which will benefit greatly from Edison’s advanced features, only previously available in large budget professional solutions.

MegaGrants are financial grants destined to fuel up creative, noteworthy, and innovative projects built in and around Unreal Engine or projects that enhance the open-source 3D graphics ecosystem, and cover a variety of endeavors from game development, architecture projects, and film production to academic uses and software tool development.