
Arcturus Raises $5M to Help Speed the Rise of Volumetric Video
data-src=https://creativecow.net/wp-content/uploads/avatars/263018/5fa08c562aaf4-bpthumb.jpg data-srcset=https://creativecow.net/wp-content/uploads/avatars/263018/5fa08c561c0e7-bpfull.jpg 2x class=lazyload avatar avatar-80 photo height=80 width=80 />
Brie Clayton May 8, 2021
0 Comments
Former Netflix, Google, Pixar, Dreamworks, YouTube, and Autodesk executives create technology to deliver interactive holographic content to the world.
Arcturus, the global software leader in the post-production and streaming of volumetric videos, today announced a $5 million seed round led by BITKRAFT Ventures with participation from leaders in the sports, telecom, gaming, and music space including HBSE Ventures; NTT Docomo Ventures; Build Ventures; Co-Founder, Co-Chairman, and former Co-CEO of Riot Games, Marc Merril; and CEO of Atlantic Records, Craig Kallman. The funding will be used to scale the software development team, focus efforts on sales growth, and expand the product line with an emphasis on live streaming features.
Founded by an impressive management team with deep product, art, and science backgrounds derived from their collective years of innovating at Netflix, Autodesk, Pixar, Dreamworks, Google, YouTube and Uber, Arcturus is revolutionizing the immersive content experience across a range of verticals including e-commerce, music, sports, interactive media, and gaming.
Volumetric video lets users consume live-action content in new ways, from viewing sports in holographic form, experiencing photorealistic virtual performances, engaging with interactive digital human assistants, and more immersive forms of social media and e-commerce, in which buyers can view and interact with products in 3D. With volumetric video, content is captured by an array of cameras and depth sensors that surround a subject to create a photorealistic model. These holograms are fully 3D and interactive, making them a natural fit for any spatial experience such as augmented or virtual reality.
Volumetric technology is exciting for a simple reason: it starts with reality. Think about it: Most of today's digital media-music, photos, or film-begin with capturing the real world. Thanks to Arcturus' extraordinary technology, a future where you record yourself, your friends, or your environment with a LIDAR-enabled smartphone, and transport them into the next interactive and 3-dimensional social media post, product showcase, or video game is closer than ever, commented Moritz Baier-Lentz, Partner at BITKRAFT Ventures.
Arcturus' flagship product is HoloSuite, a SaaS platform for editing and distributing volumetric video, which consists of HoloEdit and HoloStream. The HoloSuite platform enables users to author, edit, and stream volumetrically captured performers and environments and can be interacted with on any desktop browser and smart mobile devices.
HoloEdit is an optimized pipeline for the editing and processing of volumetric video and HoloStream is an adaptive streaming solution extending the same technology utilized by the streaming giants, Netflix and Amazon Video, to stream volumetric video directly to the viewer. HoloEdit enables content creators and game studios to easily edit and compress clips, then distribute them to third-party tools, including real-time game engines like Unity, Unreal, and more.
Arcturus' mission is to create a future where digital human holograms are captured from reality, customized and even interact with the viewer in real time. This can take the form of digital customer service agents, human avatars, virtual 3D concerts and fashion runways, or giving access to the perspectives of professional athletes in broadcast sports. With the backing of BITKRAFT Ventures, true leaders in games and XR investments, we are confident Arcturus will serve as a catalyst to enable widespread accessibility to volumetric video creation, enabling millions of users to create a new form of interactive content, said Arcturus CEO, Kamal Mistry.
Arcturus worked with Docomo for the Docomo Open House in 2021, specifically featuring HoloSuite, including HoloStream, our adaptive bitrate streaming solution for volumetric video. Arcturus has supported numerous brand and celebrity activations including Verizon's fan experience at Super Bowl LIV and Samsung's 2020 phone release featuring popular Korean boy band BTS. For more information about Arcturus, please visit https://arcturus.studio/.
More from Creative COW
01/07/2025
COW Job Listing: Laser Engraved Logo
Brie Clayton July 1, 2025
0 Comments
Laser engraved logo
July 1, 2025Steffie Beltt's Mi Amor Music Video Cr...
01/07/2025
LeGrow.Studio Builds Broadcast Hub for ePro League
Brie Clayton July 1, 2025
0 Comments
TEM Constellation HD and BlackmagicURSA Broadcast G2 drive liv...
01/07/2025
Beeble launches SwitchLight 2.0, bringing AI-powered relighting to any footage
Brie Clayton July 1, 2025
0 Comments
New AI model delivers full-scene p...
01/07/2025
Steffie Beltt's Mi Amor Music Video Created with Blackmagic Design
Brie Clayton July 1, 2025
0 Comments
Blackmagic PYXIS 6K digital film camera...
30/06/2025
PremiumBeat Tips and Tricks
Brie Clayton June 30, 2025
0 Comments
When editing to impress, you'll need quality music, and if your studio happens t...
28/06/2025
The 48th Annual Indian National Finals Rodeo Shot with Blackmagic PYXIS 6K
Brie Clayton June 27, 2025
0 Comments
Filmmaker Cameron Mackey relied on Bl...
28/06/2025
Social, Streaming Don't Compete, They Compliment
Andy Marken June 27, 2025
0 Comments
I think we've all arrived at a very special place. Spir...
28/06/2025
Blackmagic Design Captures Filipino Rock Band Drama Singtala
Brie Clayton June 27, 2025
0 Comments
Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K and DaVinci Resolve St...
28/06/2025
Enhance Videos Faster with Aiarty Video Enhancer - Offline, Sharp, and Natural
Brie Clayton July 1, 2025
0 Comments
If you've used AI video tools ...
25/06/2025
Covert Brings Boss' VFX To New Lenovo Legion Campaign
Brie Clayton June 25, 2025
0 Comments
Creative studio Covert recently contributed VFX to A...
25/06/2025
TBS Drama Series Extremely Inappropriate! Uses DaVinci Resolve Studio
Brie Clayton June 25, 2025
0 Comments
Tokyo Broadcasting System's hit comedy...
25/06/2025
How Tulpa Studio Built a Broadcast Ready Workflow on a Budget
Brie Clayton June 24, 2025
0 Comments
Founder Michelangelo Ingrosso reveals how Blackmag...
25/06/2025
Covert Promotes Ben Dubois To Executive Producer/Head Of Client Partnerships
Brie Clayton June 24, 2025
0 Comments
Creative studio Covert has promoted...
25/06/2025
Content Credentials are now available in Adobe Premiere Pro
Colin Smith June 24, 2025
0 Comments
This tutorial demonstrates how to incorporate content...
25/06/2025
The Secret of Resolve's Missing Blend Mode
Simon Ubsdell June 24, 2025
0 Comments
Uncovering an important blend mode missing from both Resolve and...
24/06/2025
Asahi Broadcasting Nagano Uses Blackmagic Cloud Workflow
Brie Clayton June 23, 2025
0 Comments
DaVinci Resolve Studio timelines shared with remote tea...
24/06/2025
11GB of Free Adobe Sound Effects?! Here's Where to Get Them
Graham Quince June 24, 2025
0 Comments
Did you know Adobe has a huge library of free s...
21/06/2025
Sonnet Announces Echo 20 Thunderbolt 4 SuperDock Now Verified as an Engineered f...
21/06/2025
Brooklyn Quarter's New Film Shot with URSA Mini Pro 12K OLPF
Brie Clayton June 20, 2025
0 Comments
Shot on steps of an LA home, micro comedy Poop...
18/06/2025
Avid delivers game-changing Splice integration to power music creators with new ...
18/06/2025
Gencom Technology Upgrades Fijian Parliament's Video Monitoring Distribution...
18/06/2025
3D Model Not Showing in After Effects? Fix It Fast with These Tips!
Graham Quince June 18, 2025
0 Comments
Imported a 3D model into After Effects, but...
18/06/2025
COW Job Listing: Video Editor Needed for Special Birthday Slideshow Project
Brie Clayton June 18, 2025
0 Comments
Video Editor Needed for Special B...
18/06/2025
Documentary Storytelling Through Spatial Video with Blackmagic Design
Brie Clayton June 18, 2025
0 Comments
DaVinci Resolve Studio underpins a blend o...
14/06/2025
San Francisco State University's School of Cinema Uses Blackmagic Design
Brie Clayton June 13, 2025
0 Comments
More than 40 Blackmagic Design came...
14/06/2025
Boris FX Mocha Pro Adds New AI Tools To Tackle VFX Tasks Fast
Jessie Electa Petrov June 13, 2025
0 Comments
The 2025.5 release helps artists work more...
14/06/2025
AJA Debuts DRM2-Plus Mini-Converter Frame at InfoComm 2025
Brie Clayton June 13, 2025
0 Comments
Next-gen frame addresses diverse rackmount needs wit...
13/06/2025
PALI's Nena Music Video Shot with Blackmagic Design
Brie Clayton June 12, 2025
0 Comments
Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K and DaVinci Resolve Studio b...
13/06/2025
OddBeast Powers Up iRobot's Newest Roombas with Suite of CGI Launch Assets
Brie Clayton June 12, 2025
0 Comments
The motion design and production ...
10/06/2025
DaVinci Resolve Studio Used on New Zealand's Shortland Street
Brie Clayton June 10, 2025
0 Comments
The Finishing Suite's Alastair Tye Samson ...
10/06/2025
New ARRI Network Interface Adapter NIA-1 expands camera and lens control via Eth...
10/06/2025
Kokufucho CATV Uses Blackmagic Design Workflow for Sub Control Room
Brie Clayton June 10, 2025
0 Comments
Studio operations centered around ATEM live ...
10/06/2025
Lock Layer Position with Expressions - Stop Accidental Moves!
Graham Quince June 10, 2025
0 Comments
Tired of accidentally dragging your layers in Aft...
10/06/2025
MKV format support, FINALLY in Adobe Premiere Pro
Colin Smith June 10, 2025
0 Comments
This tutorial showcases the capability to import MKV video file...
08/06/2025
COW Job Listing: Hiring Video Editor, Remote
Brie Clayton June 8, 2025
0 Comments
Hiring Video Editor Maker.co
May 30, 2025COW Job Post: After Eff...
07/06/2025
Editz Used DaVinci Resolve Studio for Editing Feature Anime Look Back
Brie Clayton June 6, 2025
0 Comments
DaVinci Resolve and Blackmagic Cloud make a...
07/06/2025
OWC Launches 4TB Capacity of Its Blazing-Fast Aura Pro X2 SSD
Brie Clayton June 6, 2025
0 Comments
Expanded Storage Option Delivers Up to 32x More St...
07/06/2025
Dalet Appoints Tamara Saunders as Chief Financial Officer
Brie Clayton June 6, 2025
0 Comments
Saunders brings extensive global enterprise experience ...
05/06/2025
Animate 3D paths around the world in After Effects
Graham Quince June 5, 2025
0 Comments
For this video, I show off a technique that involves no 3rd-p...
05/06/2025
Autodesk Launches MotionMaker in Maya: AI Tool Helps Artists Animate in Minutes,...
05/06/2025
The Live Stream King Uses Blackmagic Design for Live Events
Brie Clayton June 5, 2025
0 Comments
Blackmagic Design powers modular OB truck for a diver...
05/06/2025
Digital Anarchy Launches New Updates to Recently Announced Eff-It! Software fo...
05/06/2025
Goodbye Media Shoots Torn Apart With Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K
Brie Clayton June 4, 2025
0 Comments
Camera goes through punishment of intense water ...
04/06/2025
Amazon Prime Series Somos Oro Graded with DaVinci Resolve Studio
Brie Clayton June 3, 2025
0 Comments
Mexican series achieves vibrant aesthetic and st...
31/05/2025
Migrate Sound Uses DaVinci Resolve Studio for Audio Post
Brie Clayton May 30, 2025
0 Comments
Hit FOX TV show promos created with DaVinci Resolve Stud...
31/05/2025
COW Job Post: After Effects Pro for Simple Rig, Remote
Brie Clayton May 30, 2025
0 Comments
After Effects Pro for Simple Rig
May 16, 2025COW Jobs: H...
27/05/2025
American Society of Cinematographers Elects Mandy Walker as President
Brie Clayton May 26, 2025
0 Comments
The American Society of Cinematographers (A...
27/05/2025
Review of the Sony PXW-Z200 (and Sony HXR-NX800) Pro Camcorder
Marc Franklin May 27, 2025
0 Comments
This is my first product review for Creative COW....
26/05/2025
Previsualization, AI, and the Future of Filmmaking - RADiCAL Talks Webinar
Brie Clayton May 26, 2025
0 Comments
Whether you're an indie filmmaker,...