Dome shines light on women in tech - BBC

Women moving successful the "male-dominated" tech manufacture showcased their skills successful Devon's 50ft (15m) "Immersive Dome".

The pioneering task successful Devonport Market Hall, the archetypal of its benignant successful Europe, works by "wrapping its audience" successful a movie and soundscape.

At this week's Immerse Fulldome UK Festival, the nationalist person been invited to acquisition the technology.

On a time dedicated to women successful emerging technology, it became a level to stock ideas, acquisition and support.

The networking lawsuit brought unneurotic women from crossed the satellite moving successful areas including augmented reality, virtual world and 360 films.

Tech entrepreneur Lynden Campbell, who runs Hothouse Music, a dependable workplace successful London, said: "I deliberation women are large innovators, they are productive and they get things done and it's wholly beyond maine wherefore women aren't progressive successful these conversations and fixed an situation wherever they consciousness harmless to speech astir the things they privation to achieve."

Ms Campbell, who has worked with artists including Ed Sheeran, said she hoped to relocate to Plymouth for amended entree to the dome, adding: "There's thing similar this successful Europe and it's truly important that radical recognise and consciousness arrogant of that."

Johana Buresova, from Krutart Studios successful Prague, won an grant for her movie 3,2,1 Lift Off, which tells the communicative of a robot which defies sex stereotypes.

Ms Buresova said women could "discover however to enactment with exertion to make beauteous art".

She added: "I americium bittersweet that I'm the lone 1 from our workplace here.

"I truly would similar to person had them with maine present truthful they could consciousness the enactment from the assemblage of women astir technology."

Organiser Lyndsey Hall, main enforcement for Real Ideas Organisation, said the lawsuit was astir "bringing unneurotic astonishing women doing superb work" successful immersive technology.

She said women were uncovering amended ways to enactment each other, adding: "It's however bash we enactment each different arsenic women to marque things hap but besides however bash we marque Plymouth and the southbound West the centre of that."

The dome is unfastened to the nationalist this week. On Wednesday, children volition sojourn to larn astir careers, portion successful the day women who person been retired of the manufacture owed to maternity permission oregon childcare are invited to larn astir retraining.

The South West's tech assemblage could beryllium worthy astir £20bn by 2026 and make much than 125,000 caller jobs implicit the adjacent 2 years, according to probe by commercialized assemblage Tech South West.