- A Time Machine Documentary
Media Insider, Steven Rosenbaum - Monday, March 18, 2019
In "Traveling While Black," Director Roger Ross Williams puts you in a booth in D.C.'s Ben's Chili Bowl and lets you travel through the decades. ...
- AI And Modern Conversational Etiquette
Media Insider, Cory Treffiletti - Wednesday, March 13, 2019
I have seen that when an AI-based assistant is present, people tend to slow down their speech and become clearer. ...
- 13 Employees Let Go At VR-Headset Company
Around the Net in IoT, Chuck Martin - Friday, March 8, 2019
The Valve Corporation, maker of a virtual reality headset, let go 13 employees, according to a new report. ...
- Nintendo Intros VR Kit For Switch System
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Thursday, March 7, 2019
The Nintendo Labo: VR Kit, launching on April 12, includes tools to make cardboard creations called Toy-Con. ...
- Microsoft Intros HoloLens 2 Mixed Reality Headset At MWC
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Sunday, February 24, 2019
The new wearable has features that move beyond the original HoloLens introduced in 2016, and promises to take augmented reality to a new level. ...
- Iberia Airlines Launching Virtual Reality For Passengers
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Thursday, February 21, 2019
Headsets enabling viewers to experience 3D content in films, games and documentaries will be available for rent during flights. ...
- 'Batman' AR/VR Tapped To Showcase 5G at MWC
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Thursday, February 21, 2019
AT&T, Ericsson, Intel and Warner Bros. are collaborating to present a 5G, mixed reality demonstration featuring Batman at MWC19 in Barcelona. Using virtual and augmented reality, visitors can see h ...
- L'Oreal Launches AI-Powered Skin Diagnostic
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Wednesday, February 20, 2019
L'Oreal has tapped artificial intelligence to create a digital skin diagnostic for consumers, which are being launched on the brand's websites. The new technology is based on an AI-powered algorit ...
- 5G Becoming Secret Advertising Weapon For AT&T, Verizon
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, February 19, 2019
5G, which will support augmented and virtual reality applications with faster speeds, will represent more than 3% of total mobile connections -- about 422 million global devices and M2M connectio ...
- Imagining Dragons, Walmart Makes VR Viewers 'Verklempt'
Marketing Daily, Sarah Mahoney - Monday, February 18, 2019
Developed by Walmart's digital innovation shop, the VR experience invites fans into the world of the latest "How to Train Your Dragon." ...
- Walmart, Dreamworks Team For Dragon Movie VR Experience
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Sunday, February 17, 2019
Walmart has teamed with Dreamworks Animation to create an immersive virtual reality experience to promote the upcoming release of a new dragon movie. The VR experience, tied to the relea ...
- Search And Assistants Slowly Become Vocal, Estimated To Hit 8B By 2023
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Gadget lovers tend to use voice-controlled devices for simple functions. Sixty-six percent use virtual assistants to play music or listen to podcasts, 56% use them to set an alarm ...
- McClatchy Studios Adds Virtual Reality Component To Series On Texas And Football
Publishers Daily, Sara Guaglione - Monday, February 11, 2019
"All We Got" focuses on the football program at a state-run juvenile detention facility in Texas. The first episode is available on Facebook Watch, "The Fort Worth Star-Telegram" website a ...
- Retailers Deploy Virtual, Augmented Reality, Voice Assistants
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Sunday, February 10, 2019
Nearly a third (29%) of retailers plan to add augmented reality within the next thee years and 9% already use it, according to a study by BRP. ...
- Sony Launching 'Groundhog Day' VR Game
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Sony Pictures Virtual Reality is launching "Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son," a VR game for PlayStation VR, Vive and Oculus Rift. The game is a sequel to the Bi ...
- Mindshare's 'Dystopia' Series Returns For Season Two
MAD, Larissa Faw - Monday, February 4, 2019
Topics tackled in the upcoming series include digital privacy, virtual reality, and brands being forced to take a side in the culture wars. ...
- Jackson Hole Brings Mountain To Target Audience Via VR/AR
The MediaPost Cases, Nina Lentini - Thursday, March 14, 2019
It intentionally positioned the experience at the intersection of one of the busiest gates and the main corridor that leads to baggage claim so that a highly affluent audience ...
- Netflix Alters Sci-fi Fans' Ideas About Surprise
The MediaPost Cases, Nina Lentini - Thursday, March 14, 2019
From self-aware AI and police interrogations using VR to bio-organic printers printing actual human flesh, its content sucked "Wired" readers into a world where immortality is possible. ...
- Samsung Files Patent For New-Type Of VR Headset
Around the Net in IoT, Chuck Martin - Friday, February 1, 2019
Samsung has filed a patent for a virtual reality headset that uses a display type different from the traditional flat screen. ...
- Report Benchmarks Smart Tech Marketing, Finds It's Growing Fast
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Thursday, January 31, 2019
Smart technology marketing -- AI, AR, VR, IoT and voice assistants -- was by far the fastest-growing segment of investment by marketers in 2018, albeit on a relatively small bas ...
- VR Headsets Forecast To Reach 54M By 2023
Mobile Insider, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, January 31, 2019
Sony's PlayStation VR is expected to drive the console-based VR market -- which Juniper predicts will outperform all other VR markets over the next four years. Also, over 37 milli ...
- Forecast 2024 - Brave New Media World?
Show Daily, Nina Lentini - Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Our panel discusses the media landscape in five years' time, from value exchange to smart contracts to blockchain to location data. ...
- Virtual Reality Waits For Its Day
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Monday, January 28, 2019
A new study suggests VR has the potential to change how consumers think about shopping and how they approach their relationships with retail brands --- and even where they deci ...
- Sony Taps 360-Degree VR For 'Escape Room' Ad
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Monday, January 21, 2019
The creative for the film-promoting campaign, produced by Pretty Big Monster, allows audiences to explore and "escape" from a room. ...
- VR Games Forecast To Hit $1.2B In 2019
Mobile Insider, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, January 17, 2019
By 2023, Juniper expects more than 100 million mobile VR devices -- including smartphones and standalone headsets -- to be in active use. ...
- Juniper Research Predicts VR Games Market Will Still Come Around
Marketing Daily, P.J. Bednarski - Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Sales of virtual reality headsets plunged in 2018, but cheap, good VR mobile content will push users to try other VR platforms, Juniper says. ...
- Investment In VR/Augmented Reality Is Down
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, January 16, 2019
There is just not much scale. Consumers aren't there in a big way. This happens a lot in TV land: There's big promise and theoretical possibilities -- and then ...
- TripleLift Taps Former AppNexus Exec Eifler To Spearhead Expansion Push
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Eifler is tasked with moving the company's expansion into over-the-top video and connected TV, virtual reality and augmented reality, social media and voice. ...
- Google Acquires Superpod For Q&A Expertise
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 3, 2019
Google has acquired the startup Superpod, an app that allows people to post questions and receive answers from experts within an hour. ...
- Google Gets Thumbs Up From FCC On Radar-Based Tactile Inputs
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, January 2, 2019
Project Soli does not require a touchscreen. Radar senses the motion of a person's fingers. Technology "captures the possibilities of the human hand" for virtual use to track "micro-motions." ...
