A breath of campus-fresh curiosity blew through the MediaTech Hub yesterday, May 14, 2025: 15 students from Philipps-Universität Marburg spent an afternoon immersing themselves in the MediaTech Hub ecosystem. Héline Dedier, Community & Partner Manager of the MediaTech Hub, welcomed the group within the historic walls of the UFA. She explained how the MediaTech Hub Potsdam connects founders, research and industry and why Babelsberg in particular has become a test laboratory for new media technologies. She gave the students an overview of the hub’s activities – from the accelerator program, co-working spaces and networking events to the MediaTech Hub Conference, which brings international industry experts to Babelsberg every year.
Immediately afterwards, the group moved on to the neighboring Studio Babelsberg site. There, Sascha Schwarz from Volucap welcomed the guests. On Europe’s first volumetric shooting floor, he showed the group how hundreds of cameras capture actors as a three-dimensional point cloud and how artificial intelligence reconstructs the data into accessible scenes in real time.
We would like to thank Philipps University Marburg for the visit!
About Philipps-Universität Marburg
Founded in 1527 by Landgrave Philip the Magnanimous, Philipps-Universität Marburg – the oldest Protestant university in the world still in existence – today has around 21,162 students, 22% of whom are international. It offers 16 faculties ranging from law and economics to cutting-edge research in the life sciences. The Chair of Entrepreneurship & Innovative Business Models at the Department of Economics has been headed by Prof. Dr. Vivien Procher since 2020 and investigates hybrid, digital and sustainable start-ups. In teaching and knowledge transfer, the chair cooperates closely with the university start-up center MAFEX, which supports students in start-up practice through coaching, competitions and networks.
Here are some impressions of the visit:
