May. 16, 2012 - Google TV hasn't exactly skyrocketed to popularity the way Android did after being introduced to the public, but maybe it's just a matter of someone. 
"At the annual Augmented Reality Event conference in Santa Clara, Calif., this week, marketers, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and science-fiction authors (Daniel Suarez and Bruce Sterling) were all looking for ways to leverage a technology that could change the way we use computers and access data and media. Or not." ![Could Video-Sharing Apps Hurt YouTube? [STUDY] | expanding cinema | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/H86DBmFpzP3iI0ChxP1bszl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
Mobile apps that promote photo and video sharing are eating up more of consumers' time, representing a threat to YouTube's dominance. 
"Check out this Future Lions 2012 entry by Iris Gavric & Daniel Otterbein… Proposed for Absolut Vodka, they’ve attempted to create movement called Absolut Inspire, an Augmented Reality Street Art App designed to create a new world without creative limitations." 
"Virtual entertainment is changing from head-mounted displays and gloves to whole-body interaction, thanks to Wii and Kinect,” says Mike Goldstein, president of Amusitronix, which rents portable equipment for virtual experiences. “Now VR is more intuitive and easier for nontechies to use." 
“I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use,” Jobs reportedly said. “It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud. It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it.” 
"The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) claims that SOPA and PIPA are aimed at stopping online piracy. But as this infographic demonstrates, it’s really about fighting innovation." 
"For nearly eight weeks this spring, internationally renowned artist Doug Aitken (American, b. Redondo Beach, Calif., 1968; lives and works in Los Angeles and New York) will illuminate the façade of the Hirshhorn’s iconic cylindrical building in Washington, D.C. by completely covering it with moving images, accompanying them with an original soundscape." 
Video mapping company NuFormer has just teamed up with Dutch mocap specialists Motek Entertainment to create what it calls ‘mocap mapping’: a new art form in which a video projection is combined with real-time motion capture to enable a 3D character to interact with its environment, and with an audience. 
Telepresence systems — essentially super-powered videoconferencing systems which offer images at high enough quality to make medical diagnoses or closely read body language — are becoming increasingly common. 
The first patent describes a full-on helmet with attached, visor-like eyepieces and appears to be intended for Xbox gamers, according to the blog. The second reveals eyewear that resembles a pair of sunglasses—that's the tech Microsoft would attempt to integrate into future smartphones, media players, and other mobile devices, so it makes sense that it comes in a form that people might actually want to wear out in public. 
For the first time last month, the number of films streamed by Lovefilm subscribers exceeded the number of physical DVD movie rentals. Via Luke McKernan 
"I think that right now the state of AR is really cheesy and cheap and full of crappy polygons and is a useless piece of crap and a waste of time. In the future, transparent displays with minimal information and very good design that relaxes you and makes you a superhuman in control of your own reality instead of overwhelm you or wait for things to load are going to be important." |
"Le jury a apprécié sa capacité « à offrir une vision artistique claire » et à montrer « comment dans les mains d’un cinéaste, les nouvelles technologies peuvent procurer une vraie expérience cinématographique »." 
"Their iOptik innovation, a new kind of dual focus contact lens, has the ability to project 3D images onto the eye itself. So if you’ve ever dreamed of wandering around your own virtual reality world without having to strap on that unwieldy virtual reality head gear, your chance to become Predator is finally here. Almost." 
"The company recently unveiled the Moverio BT-100, Andorid-powered glasses that combine 3D-technology with a myriad of other features. Epson’s glasses do not feature augmented reality, but are capable of providing wearers with 3D digital images. The glasses feature two, high-definition screens that allow consumers to view transparent digital images in gratuitous detail." 
Chris Vik, an Australian composer, hacked Microsoft's motion-sensitive Kinect camera to play the historic, 32-foot-tall Melbourne Town Hall organ. 
"This project is the brainchild of literary experimenter Amaranth Borsuk and designer and developer Brad Bouse and is effectively a book of augmented-reality poetry. It is a joyfully self-referential art project that examines what takes place between the pages of the book that bring words to life on the screen when captured by a computer’s webcam." 
"When they become truly connected movie theaters are no longer movie theaters. Instead they are public places where people gather together to watch something on a big screen. That something might be a movie—but it does not have to be a movie." Via The Digital Rocking Chair, Zan Chandler 
"My newest golden rule of creating TV technology and experiences is this: If the product doesn’t take “escape” into account in a major way, it is utterly doomed to fail. So to TV, device, service, and app makers – think about how people really do watch TV. They aren’t changing, no matter how much you try to force it down their throats." Via Gary Hayes 
As content delivery platform is evolving, content offering should adapt accordingly: content should be designed as a service, offering interactivity, multi-platforms ubiquity, personalisation, social sharing, and collective usage. While content becomes 360°, service can provide customization for each media delivery, taking into account user context, creating more relevancy to viewer habits, and fostering willingness to pay. 
“Social media is the connective tissue that enables consumers to multitask during their entertainment experiences by connecting with others and sharing their opinions,” notes pollster Jon Penn of the findings, based on a survey of 750 social network users ages 13 to 49. And film moguls, take note: The poll found that a majority of 18-to-34-year-olds believe using social media while watching a movie in a theater would add to their experience, and nearly half would be interested in going to theaters that allowed texting and web surfing. 
Said concept shatters the conventional wisdom that limits games to fictional settings by operating on a two-fold implication model. First and foremost, the users get to literally explore the world around them as they normally would, but gain access to the augmented reality game that already surrounds them by simply looking through their mobile device. 
Samsung's 2012 top-of-the-line plasmas and LED HDTVs offer new features never before available within a television including a built-in, internally wired HD camera, twin microphones, face tracking and speech recognition. While these features give you unprecedented control over an HDTV, the devices themselves, more similar than ever to a personal computer, may allow hackers or even Samsung to see and hear you and your family, and collect extremely personal data. 
"Through an innovative collaboration with Tugg, Inc., a collective action web-platform that enables individuals to choose the films that play in their local theaters, fans can sign up today at www.TheLovedOnesMovie.comto book a screening and invite friends to see one of the most buzzed about horror films of the summer." |
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