Tag: NASA

  • V! Studios Wins 2020 Communicator Award of Distinction for Online Video

    V! Studios has received a 2020 Communicator Award of Distinction for its online video series, NASA ScienceCasts. The NASA ScienceCast series highlights scientific research and discoveries, keeping audiences informed, advancing understanding, and bringing wonder through animation and visualizations.  The Communicator Awards are judged and overseen by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA), an…

  • V! Studios Receives Nomination for a 2018 Emmy® Award

    V! Studios has received a nomination for a 2018 Emmy® Award for its work on the NASA ScienceCasts episode, “Two Sides of the Same Star.” The NASA ScienceCast series highlights scientific research and discoveries, keeping audiences informed, advancing understanding, and bringing wonder through animation and visualizations.  “Two Sides of the Same Star” explores the nature…

  • Unlocking table data using open source OCR

    This summer we were awarded a small research grant from NASA’s Technology Data and Innovation Division to investigate extracting structured information from scans of engineering documents, and we recently demoed our proof-of-concept app for the project to NASA’s Office of the CIO. Our previous work for the NASA Extra Vehicular Activities (EVA) Office used serverless…

  • V! Studios Wins 2018 Communicator Award of Distinction for Online Video

    V! Studios has been honored with a Communicator Award for its online video series of NASA ScienceCasts. The NASA ScienceCast series from NASA explores space phenomena and explains scientific discoveries to the general public. The Communicator Awards are judged and overseen by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA), a 600+ member organization of leading professionals…

  • NASA ScienceCasts: Cosmic Bow Shocks

    Check out the latest effort from our Animation Team for NASA’ Science Mission Directorate.

  • ScienceCasts: An Out of This World Research Lab

    The International Space Station is more than just a bright light in the night sky. It is also an out-of-this-world research laboratory. ISS: www.nasa.gov/station

  • Automatic Swarm of Ephemeral Servers Extract Text to Improve NASA Astronaut Safety

    V! Studios develops high volume solution for extracting text from scanned documents faster and cheaper for NASA’s Johnson Space Center by utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda serverless technology. V! Studios, a creative technologies company, has developed a new high-speed, low-cost cloud-based solution for optical character recognition (OCR) and text extraction. Standard OCR software extracts…

  • Accessing NASA Digital Media Now Easier With New Library Search Engine

    TYSONS, VA (PRWEB) MARCH 28, 2017 By leveraging cloud computing and storage capabilities, V! Studios developed a highly scalable, cost efficient multimedia library for NASA at images.nasa.gov, which officially launched to the public on March 28, 2017. NASA, like many other government agencies, is challenged with compiling, archiving, and retrieving massive amounts of digitized content. Prior to this…

  • ScienceCasts: NASA Embraces Small Satellites

    NASA is embracing small satellite designs, from tiny CubeSats to micro-satellites. These miniature marvels are providing many ways to collect science data and to demonstrate new technologies.

  • Official Release: NASA ScienceCasts Series Surpasses Milestone Episode

    TYSONS, VA (PRWEB) JANUARY 31, 2017 Working with the Science Mission Directorate and ISS Program Science Office at NASA, V! Studios has completed over 225 episodes of the critically acclaimed ScienceCasts series. As stated on the official ScienceAtNASA YouTube page, “ScienceCasts are short videos about fun, interesting, and unusual science topics encountered by NASA’s Science Missions.” The ScienceCasts video series provides NASA the…