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Tag Archives: VR
13 Products We Want from IFA 2018
My favorite products from this year’s IFA show in Berlin, which you can read here on Techlicious.
Posted in Apple, cell/smartphones, ear/headphones, home office, IFA, music players/speakers, smart home, TV/4K/UHD/8K
Tagged Alexa, Amazon, appliances, Bluetooth, digital camera, Google Assistant, IFA, Kuerig, laptops, LG, Marshall, Polaroid, robots, Sony, TCL, VR, Wi-Fi, yogurt
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Is Home VR Doomed?
Few mass market tech failures have been as remarkable as at-home 3DTV. While 3D still has a life in theaters, no TV maker bothers to hawk (or, in many cases, include) the feature anymore. Why? Dependence on glasses for home … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, cell/smartphones, Digital Tech Consulting, VR/AR
Tagged 3D, Apple, AR, augmented reality, head-mounted display, HMD, HTC Vive, Microsoft, Mixed Reality, MR, Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, virtual reality, VR
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‘Ready Player One’: Good Movie, Bad VR Future-casting
Far be it from me to find fault with filmmaker-great Steven Spielberg or with author Ernest Cline. But as effective and entertaining as Ready Player One is, its depiction of what VR will be like 25 years hence is, conceptually, ridiculous. Continue … Continue reading
Toy Fair 2018: ‘Alexa, Play With Me’
Like a puppy trailing a child, the toy industry often trails after the consumer electronics industry in integrating advanced technology into playthings. But at this year’s Toy Fair, Amazon Alexa voice-recognition, AR and VR, STEM/STEAM-oriented educational gear, 3D printing and … Continue reading
Posted in cell/smartphones, smart home, TWICE, VR/AR
Tagged AI, Alexa, Amazon, AR, VR
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Top 10 Gadgets From CES
A list of the gadgets I found at CES that are more practical than future fanciful, more useless than cool, that’d I’d actually buy; from the Huffington Post, which you can read here.
Posted in Apple, cell/smartphones, CES, Huffington Post, smart home
Tagged 360 video, Amazon Alexa, Apple, Eargo, hearables, iDevices, iPhone X, OCR, Polk, portable battery, Qi, Toto, VR, wireless charging
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Are There Killer Apps for AR and VR?
Restless grumblings are rocking the virtual reality (VR) world. Previous rose-colored projections are undergoing hasty revisions as disappointing VR hardware sales reports trickle in. We’re shocked that folks don’t like putting stuff on their heads that completely blind them, forcing … Continue reading
VR’s Rocky Road to the Mainstream
VR suffers multiple format, ergonomic and technical issues that could delay or even permanently impede its path to the radio-TV-web mainstream. Read more about VR’s Rocky Road to the Mainstream in this blog post.
A 360-Degree Video Future? Codec is Key
Today, encoding standard 6:9 4K video footage is well served by the newest codecs. But getting to a future of fully immersive 360-degree video recording is where encoding will go next. Read more here in this blog entry at Digital … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Tech Consulting, TV/4K/UHD/8K
Tagged 360, 4K, 8K, AR, codec, HEVC, spherical, Video communication, Video compression, VR, VR Camera
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How Will TV Makers Compete With VR?
For VR to go mainstream, there may need to be a non-helmet, group-sharing counterpart—wider TVs with paradigm-snapping viewing capabilities. Are there any on the horizon? Find out why or why not here.
Posted in Digital Tech Consulting, TV/4K/UHD/8K
Tagged 16:9, 21:9, 4K, AR, Philips, Samsung, UHD, Vestel, VR
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If Action Cams Are Over, What’s Next?
GoPro, the inventor of and leading seller of action cams, recently announced what it called a “deep loss” for its first quarter 2016. It was GoPro’s second straight quarterly drop after several years of storybook hockey stick ascent to top … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Tech Consulting, TV/4K/UHD/8K
Tagged 4K, action cams, AR, Facetime 360, Flip, GoPro, Nikon, Samsung Gear VR, UHD, VR, YouTube 360
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