Brainstorm recibe un MegaGrant de Epic Games

The Spanish company receives funding for the development of Edison, a new template and augmented reality solution for educational purposes based on Unreal Engine.

Brainstorm, a Spanish company specialized in real-time 3D graphics solutions, virtual sets and augmented reality, has received a MegaGrant of Epic Games for the development of Edison, a new template and augmented reality solution for educational purposes based on Unreal Engine.

MegaGrants are funding grants intended to promote creative, outstanding and innovative projects built around Unreal Engine or projects that improve the open source 3D graphics ecosystem and encompass a variety of initiatives ranging from game development, architectural projects and film production to academic uses and software tool development.

This development will further expand the already tight integration of other Brainstorm products with Unreal Engine, especially InfinitySet, for photorealistic virtual sets and augmented reality applications.

Edison brings a new approach to education and presentations in general, as it is designed to be extremely easy to use, providing non-expert users the flexibility and freedom to create very sophisticated and visually attractive presentations, integrating PPT or PDF files and augmented reality content in immersive environments and photorealistic scenarios. The key to Edison's creative potential is that it allows presenters to also include themselves in such 3D environments very easily.

Edison is the result of adapting the more than 25 years of experience that Brainstorm has accumulated in broadcast-quality virtual sets and real-time 3D graphics to a new audience. This new audience is a broad user base made up of teachers, speakers and educators of all types and extends to everyone who participates in live events and corporate presentations, to YouTubers and Internet entrepreneurs from multiple sectors. All of these user profiles, and many more, have similar needs: a set of sophisticated, yet easy-to-use tools that allows them to greatly improve their presentations, with the aim of better informing and educating their audience in an attractive and innovative way.

Ricardo Montesa, CEO and Founder of Brainstorm, is delighted with "our ongoing cooperation with Epic Games and the integration with Unreal Engine for our current range of products, and very excited to receive this MegaGrant for the development of Edison. We are confident that this product will revolutionize education through the use of advanced and photorealistic AR, and will also provide new virtual presentation possibilities to other markets such as events, corporate presentations and live presentations, which will benefit from the advanced features of Edison, which were previously only available for big-budget professional solutions.”