The Esquire Guy’s Guide to Media Interviews
If you are an innovator or entrepreneur, chances are the media wants to cover you because you are doing something right or are intriguing enough. Esquire has released a video guide on how you can sound natural, deliver a difficult message, and the phases you should never say
Future of Public Television
This week on the Communicators, Patrick Butler, Association of Public Television Stations President and CEO talks about how public television officials view federal spending cutbacks and the future of public television.
How Ericsson is transforming mobile video delivery
Ericsson recently launched the world’s first complete Broadcast LTE solution and here Simon Frost, Head of TV Marketing at Ericsson, discusses the applications and new business models that the new technology enables, and the future impact of the technology standards that lay at its heart: HEVC, MPEG DASH and eMBMS. He also explains why Broadcast LTE together with Ericsson’s Media Delivery Network can transform mobile video delivery.
Futurist Jason Silva on BRAIN GAMES
Brain Games explores the inner workings of your brain with interactive games you can play at home, as well as experiments on the streets of a city as complex as your brain — New York.
Guiding you through the twists and turns of your gray matter is Jason Silva who will be joined by top experts in the fields of cognitive science, neuroscience and psychology that will give you the “why” behind the “wow.” Get in touch with your inner super-computer and let Brain Games blow your mind!
Angry Birds TV? Rovio Makes the Dream Come True
Angry Birds maybe the best selling app in history. They expanded their app portfolio with partnerships with Lucas films, season specials, holiday specials etc. Now they are set to turn Angry Birds into a TV show. Premiering on March 16th, the new show will air on a weekly basis and promises to pack as much punch as the game itself.
LA-based Daqri is at the forefront of the Augmented Reality revolution
Brian Mullins, Founder & CEO of Daqri and Co-Founder and Marketing/ PR guru, Gaia Dempsey, describe the process, history and future of Augmented Reality and show us their latest innovations.
Steam’s Big Picture
Check out Big Picture, Steam’s new mode that lets gamers access all of their favorite Steam games on a television. With the press of a button, Steam displays a new full-screen user interface optimized for readability and interaction on TV. Big Picture has been designed to be used with a traditional game controller, while also fully supporting keyboard and mouse input.
Cord Cutters: Using Airplay with your Google TV
Google TV devices can use AirPlay, provided you install the right app. Check out a demo in this Cord Cutters quick tip.
Endeavorist TV: A Real-life Webseries About a Startup
Endeavorist is a documentary webseries about the inside of a startup and the lives of its fun and motivated creators. Born as a web startup built of unique, creative, talented, and funny people who care about the future of science and innovation, Endeavorist has launched a kickstarter campaign to raise funds to launch TV series in an effort to democratize impactful thought.
“We want to show people what it’s like to work at a young startup in today’s world, and hopefully inspire other people with big ideas to pursue what they believe in.”
Glasses-free 3-D TV | MIT
As striking as it is, the illusion of depth now routinely offered by 3-D movies is a paltry facsimile of a true three-dimensional visual experience. In the real world, as you move around an object, your perspective on it changes. But in a movie theater showing a 3-D movie, everyone in the audience has the same, fixed perspective — and has to wear cumbersome glasses, to boot.
Despite impressive recent advances, holographic television, which would present images that vary with varying perspectives, probably remains some distance in the future. But in a new paper featured as a research highlight at this summer’s Siggraph computer-graphics conference, the MIT Media Lab’s Camera Culture group offers a new approach to multiple-perspective, glasses-free 3-D that could prove much more practical in the short term.
Instead of the complex hardware required to produce holograms, the Media Lab system uses several layers of liquid-crystal displays (LCDs), the technology currently found in most flat-panel TVs. To produce a convincing 3-D illusion, the displays would need to refresh at a rate of about 360 times a second, or 360 hertz. Such displays may not be far off: LCD TVs that boast 240-hertz refresh rates have already appeared on the market, just a few years after 120-hertz TVs made their debut.
