Catherine Allen: BAFTA winning immersive media specialist

Catherine Allen

Immersive media specialist

CEO and lead consultant at Limina Immersive

Catherine Allen is most well known as a UK leading expert in immersive technology and its relationship with the public. Her approach is future-thinking and imaginative, yet heavily audience-centric and grounded in data. After working on the BAFTA-winning iPad app Disney Animated in 2013, Catherine led the creation of two of the BBC’s first virtual reality experiences in 2015 – 2016. Finding VR an incredible artistic medium, but with a frustratingly narrow audience, she founded Limina Immersive in late 2016; a VR events and research company dedicated to bringing immersive tech to broader audiences. Limina ran cultural VR events across the world to a total of over 15,000 audience members.

Catherine has continuously shared findings about audience needs back with universities and the sector. She has authored numerous public reports that have influenced policy. She has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Warwick for her work in immersive tech. Catherine is also in Meta’s Advisory Council for Reality Labs.

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Elmer's Photo Patchwork

Touchpress/Andersen Press "A brilliant app for getting your children out and about in the real world"- The Guardian It’s nearly time for Elmer’s Parade, and his elephant friends need your help to get ready. Get creative, take inspiration from the world around you and use your camera to decorate the elephants with your own bright, beautiful patchwork pattern. Have fun making each of Elmer’s friends unique and ready to take part in the parade.

Disney Animated for iPad

Disney Interactive/ Touchpress BAFTA winner - Best Children’s Interactive experience “The most ambitious app in history” - Stuff Magazine “The whole experience is magical” - Mashable Disney Animated is an exclusive ‘behind the scenes’ pass to Walt Disney Animated Studios. The concept art, early sketches, explanatory multi-layered clips and interactives unveil the secrets of how animated classics are made. Users of any age can enjoy learning about the history and techniques of animation.

Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel VR

BBC/Crossover Labs/VRTOV “Extraordinary... One of the best ways to understand the viewpoints of people who lived through history." NT actors as reported in The Telegraph The BBC's first VR history documentary, Voice of a Rebel, lets users step into one man’s memories & journey back to a moment that changed Irish History forever: the 1916 Easter Rising. The experience has toured dozens of festivals globally & was was showcased for several weeks at the National Theatre and Imperial War Museum.

Elmer's Photo Patchwork

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