LookBermuda 2020 Year End Update

Behind the scenes, LookBermuda has remained extremely busy throughout 2019 / 2020 with many of our projects either unannounced, running in stealth mode, or being promoted via other channels. This includes our ongoing Nonsuch Expeditions and signature CahowCam project, (which we managed to keep going despite COVID restrictions and complications), now entering its 9th season with over 40 million minutes of footage having been watched from around the World.

The recently announced Nonsuch Plastics Project, in partnership with KBB, with AXIS as the lead sponsor, is documenting and analyzing the 3.5 tons of ocean plastic that was collected from the small Nonsuch Island beach, with local students, for a documentary.

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As Ambassadors for the Sargasso Sea Commission, our focus on documenting the Sargassum and the biodiversity that it contains when it reaches Bermuda and in the Sargasso Sea, continues, including a National Geographic Field Notes Blog and Sargasso themed light-box exhibit in the New Bermuda International Airport.

As part of our ongoing focus on developing and deploying technology to solve conservation challenges, we participated in the Seattle Oceans Conference in 2019 and exhibited at the Oceans Science Conference in San Diego in 2020, (including our ongoing Bermuda100 Project with UCSD and the DENR), where several scientific papers and posters which we co-authored were also presented (thankfully just prior to the COVID shutdowns).

We are now entering the 3rd year of an ongoing project with the Cornell Bio Acoustics Lab recording and studying the soundscape and acoustic signatures of the Bermuda reef platform with the end goal of developing tools to better protect it and global MPAs.

We have several other projects in the Ocean Technology / Exploration and MPA protection and enforcement spaces that will be announced in early 2021, if interested, please contact us for more information.

Award winning 3D Shipwreck Photogrammetry and Holographic Video Displays connect two TEDx talks

Winner of the 2018 Technology Innovation of the Year Award, The Bermuda 100 Project is a partnership between USCD’s Cultural Heritage Engineering Initiative (CHEI), LookBermuda and the Bermuda Governments Department of the Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) which uses advanced photogrammetry processes to capture and bring Bermuda’s shipwrecks to the world.

The project which was originally launched via a TEDx Bermuda talk in 2016 by UCSD professor Falko Kuester continues to create larger and larger datasets as it documents Bermuda’s shipwrecks and reefs.

UCSD’s big data visualization expertise paired with their WAVE and 3D video walls allows for this data to be rendered and experienced at very large scale in realtime. Their custom developed hardware is capable of rendering the billions of data points out to a mind-boggling 12 k, Spherical, 3D video that a user can control with a game controller to literally fly through the wrecks at full scale.

Their installations provided the backdrop and Disruptive Tech showcase for the recent NOAA Deep Ocean Exploration Conference hosted by UCSD in San Diego.

Viewers around the world are also able to view the datasets via the Bermuda100 website which includes innovative browser based tools for interacting with the 3D models in real-time.

Bermuda 100 Partner LookBermuda, Developer Jean-Pierre Rouja: “We now have several ways to interact with the 3D models ranging from the massive UCSD 3D video walls, interactive web tools via the Bermuda100 portal, 4k 3D LED displays with 3D glasses and VR headsets, however up to now it has been a challenge to cost effectively display the 3D models in public scenarios where distributing 3D glasses or managing headsets is not practical or affordable.

This continues to be one of our biggest challenges as we look to extend our pubic outreach into Museum type locations and we have finally found a solution: We are now working with Brooklyn based startup The Looking Glass Factory to enable their ground breaking 3D Holographic Canvas to display our models in the real world, without the need for headsets or special glasses.

Not only were we able to showcase a prototype of the display with our models in a Tech Showcase at the 2018 TEDx Bermuda event (where our project was originally launched in 2016) but this was then followed by a TEDx Providence talk featuring our new collaboration by Looking Glass co-founder Alex Hornstein the following weekend!”

Shipwreck Photogrammetry Collaboration featured on PBS Newshour

LookBermuda's Shipwreck Photogrammetry Collaboration with UCSD and the Bermuda Government showcased on PBS Newshour.

Shipwrecks have defined Bermuda from its earliest days, even acting as an essential economic driver. Thousands of artifacts have been left behind, providing clues about life and trade of the time. Now the wrecks are getting a new life in a high-tech lab, where they will be accessible to everyone. Jeffrey Brown reports in the first of a two-part series.

Watch the 2 part series here.

CahowCam streams 20+ million minutes of video through new Cornell partnership. →

The Nonsuch Expeditions CahowCam through its new partnership with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has had 600,000 views for a total of 8.5 million minutes video watched during the 2017 nesting season. UPDATE 20+ million minutes through end of 2019 season.

"This season working with Nonsuch Expeditions to showcase the Cahow to a broader audience was a great success, reaching hundreds of thousands of viewers and raising awareness about the ongoing need for investment in the cahow's future. The foundation we laid through our partnership this year will allow us to continue improving the quality of the online experience in future years, and to further highlight the efforts of the Bermuda Department of Environment and Natural Resources." Charles Eldermire Bird Cams Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology

To read more visit the  Nonsuchisland.com website.

Nonsuch Expeditions poster presented to HRH Princess Anne

During the Royal Visit to the America's Cup Endeavour Education Zone, Junior Explorer Sophie Rouja presented a Nonsuch Expeditions poster to HRH Princess Anne.

J Class Regatta images added to LookBermuda's America's Cup Print Collection

Aerial photography of the America's Cup J Class Regatta by Jean-Pierre Rouja have been added to the selection of official America's Cup licensed prints being produced by LookBermuda. This print was used in the J Class awards ceremony and is available via authorized retailers and online here.

Green Sea Turtle Nest found on Bermuda beach.

LookBermuda | LookFilms filmed the first documented natural green sea turtle nest in Bermuda in over 100 years!

Read article and watch video on the Nonsuch Expeditions website.

Americas Cup Bermuda 2017 - Promo Video

Americas Cup - Bermuda from LookBermuda | LookFilms on Vimeo.

This video was co-produced by LookBermuda | LookFilms and Shooter & Scribe Productions for the Bermuda Tourism Authority.

Stock footage is from the LookBermuda fim archive, naration is by Glenn Jones, music by Felix Tod and digital renderings by Onsite Engineering.

It includes recent Newport to Bermuda sailing footage filmed by a collective of Bermuda Production Companies including teams from LookBermuda, Shooter & Scribe and Bermuda Aerial Media pulled together by LookBermuda.

CahowCam wins 1st place in 2014 TechAwards

Our CahowCam wins 1st prize in the 2014 TechAwards for " Innovation of the Year - Local market focus" !!!

This also belongs to Jeremy Madeiros and the team at  The Department of Conservation Services, and is made possible by the support of Ascendant and their solar power and Logic Communications wireless internet.

Congrats to jobber.bm who tied with us for 1st place!

View our Live CahowCam here and follow this link for details of the project on our dedicated Nonsuch Island website.

HumpBack Whales

A clip from a humpback whale encounter this spring.

We later found out that this was the famous "Magical Whale" which had starred in Andrew Stevenson's film and hadn't been seen in several years.

We will posting more to this story so please check back-

Higher Ground the Cahow Translocation Project Movie Now Online

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Royal Gazette: "Higher Ground" The Cahow Translocation Project - Film Launch

Photo: Chris BurvilleHalf a century of Herculean effort to increase the perilously small numbers of Bermuda's endemic cahow has culminated in this project's most remarkable achievement relocating a colony of the species to the safety of higher ground onto the island of Nonsuch in Castle Harbour.

Tonight a film entitled "Higher Ground" the Cahow Translocation Project will be launched, focusing on this unique management programme designed by Conservation Office Jeremy Madeiros to save Bermuda's national bird, and to safeguard its future.

JP Rouja of LookBermuda, the media company which produced Higher Ground, said: “The film follows the work of the translocation project between 2005 and 2010 as the team move chicks from the crumbling outlying islands and create a new and secure nesting colony on the island of Nonsuch.”

The film, the making of which was supported by Hannover Life Re, Butterfield and Vallis, the Audubon Society and BZS, will be broadcast on LookTV Cable Vision channel 001, online at LookBermuda.com and as an interactive curriculum asset through the LookBermuda Educational Media Foundation for the Public, Private and Home Schools.

It is showing Thursday evening at BUEI, for VIPs, Sponsors and Educators.

Anyone that has not received an invitation and is interested should send an email via the form on LookBermuda.com to be added to the list for future screenings.

Bermuda National Trust Award

The Deforest Trimingham Award was presented to LookBermuda "For creating a wonderful series of environmental films to educate the community".

Gates Fort Panorama selected for PanoBook 2010

"Amistad at Gates Fort" selected for PanoBook 2010, a book showcasing the best panoramas from around the world.