Immersive arts organisation announce new studio manager

Birmingham Open Media (BOM) have announced Mikayla Sinead as their new Immersive Studio manager.

BOM is the UK’s leading immersive arts organisation, empowering communities through innovation with immersive technology and inclusive learning programmes.

They are a non-profit social enterprise, creating award-winning immersive experiences using virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) with a strong social purpose. Their experience covers everything from app and games development, providing high level immersive consultancy, skills training, building VR worlds and creating interactive AR experiences.

Learning and inclusion are important to BOM and they deliver education and outreach to over 1,500 underserved children, young people and adults each year, particularly those who face economic barriers or disabilities.

BOM say they are passionate about the potential for immersive technologies to build social connections, for learning and creativity. To learn more visit their website and follow them on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Speaking about her appointment, Mikayla (pictured) said: “This is such an exciting role and honestly, a couple of years ago something like this was not even on my radar of things I would be able to achieve. But here I am, a year after starting as community manager with BOM, I am thrilled to have the opportunity to add value to the tech ecosystem here in Birmingham even further.

“My role not only focuses on the internal project management of the many commercial projects, I also support our chief technology officer in securing new contracts and ensuring our clients, partners and friends are looked after and happy with the services we provide.”