This week we talked with Calum McHardy– director of Unicom. Unicom offers a wide range of digital services relating to 3D animation and digital presentation. However, our talk concerned Company Connecting’s continuing theme of Augmented reality. Hi Calum, could you tell us what Unicom is all about and how your business is structured?We’ve grown from ... Read more

Continuing with our series of Company Connecting infographics, our infographic this week covers a number of related areas i.e. IT companies working in Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, 3D, Animation, GIS, 3D Visualisation and Graphics. Out of our database of 3,400+ companies there are 226 working in these specialist areas. 68% of the companies have less than ... Read more

“Fairy Glen School for Fairies – An Adventurous Journey”, is a full colour digitally illustrated children’s book, developed by David Plested as part of his University degree curriculum. The business idea was to create a product that could help parents better connect their children to nature and the environment. The story is set within a ... Read more

Simplistically Virtual Reality (VR) is a computer generated simulation of something real which the user is immersed in. Augmented Reality (AR) is exactly what it says, it’s computer generated enhancements layered on top of the real world. VR has surfaced at several points over the past twenty years, as technology that shows promise for the ... Read more

Our infographic summarises the size, skills, sectors and focal areas for IT companies in the Borders & South West Scotland. There are 292 companies in the area of which 68% have less than 10 employees, and 5% more than 50 employees. Once again Software Development is the top skill (79 companies).  The top three sectors are IT, games ... Read more