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HKBU School of Communication launches Asia’s first Dolby Atmos Sound Studio and other new cutting-edge facilities

The HKBU School of Communication has launched new state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations.

The facilities include a Dolby Atmos Sound Studio, which is the first studio of its kind in Asia, as well as an Artificial Intelligence Media Research Laboratory and Virtual Reality Station.

Supported by professionals in the School, and equipped with the most advanced media technologies and tools, the facilities are expected to foster research on communication, establish a stronger partnership with industries on film and,media and promote communication education in Hong Kong.

The School will arrange a media tour to explain and demonstrate in detail how the new facilities will be used. Following the media tour, representatives from the School will share its departments’ latest developments and introduce the 50th anniversary events.

The details of media tour and sharing session are as follows:

Date: 29 October 2018 (Monday)
Time: 10:15 am
Venue: G/F (Big TV screen), Communication and Visual Arts Building, 5 Hereford Road, Kowloon Tong.

Speakers:

Mr Lau Chi-Kuen, Associate Dean of School of Communication
Professor Alice Lee, Head of Department of Journalism
Ms Bonnie Chiu, Associate Head of Department of Journalism
Dr Zhang Xinzhi , Research Assistant Professor of Department of Journalism
Mr Man Shu-sum, Associate Director of Academy of Film
Dr Robert Ellis-Geiger, Senior Lecturer of Academy of Film

You are cordially invited to send reporters/photographers to cover the above event.


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Media enquiries: Mavis Wong of the Communication & Public Relations Office at 3411 7964 / hkbunews@hkbu.edu.hk, or Patricia Chan of the School of Communication ( 3411 7875 / patricia@hkbu.edu.hk)