It’s easy to root for higher quality software: In the “anything goes” app store era, great apps are routinely surrounded by masses of junky ones. Having to wade through trash sucks for consumers, and is now frustrating even the app stores’ operators.Facebook’s Oculus division thinks it has a solution to this problem. With only weeks remaining before the launch of its $399 standalone VR headset Quest, Oculus announced that developers will need to meet heightened qual...
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Best known for its virtual reality videos of live events, NextVR today announced a partnership with the NHL to deliver 3D highlights from the hockey league’s “marquee events.” According to NextVR, the post-game highlights will include everything from matchups and goals to big hits, using stereoscopic VR footage that lets viewers feel like they’re in the arena.The deal starts with 3D video filmed at last weekend’s NHL All-Star Game in San Jose, California, which is a...
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IMAX and audio company DTS are partnering to launch IMAX Enhanced, a new certification and licensing program for consumer electronics products and content.The program will deal in IMAX digitally remastered 4K HDR content and DTS audio technologies for home entertainment. IMAX said its proprietary postproduction process to digitally remaster content can produce more vibrant colors, greater contrast and sharper clarity. The program will also use a special variant of the DTS:X codec technology for ...
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Esports is a fundamental element of how “Halo Infinite’s” multiplayer game is being designed and will function, Elizabeth Van Wyck, head of business, operations and esports for the Halo franchise at Microsoft, said during Variety’s Entertainment and Technology Summit earlier this month.“In developing for the next [Halo] game, it is a key piece of how we think about how we built out multiplayer, which is the mode that our esports is built off of,” she said. &ld...
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Online video platform Kaltura delivers a greatly enhanced version of its Cloud TV Platform SDK today, adding better mobile performance, HEVC support, and Google and Facebook ad support. The improved mobile viewing comes from built-in monitoring tools that watch connectivity data at the network, device, and player level. Thanks to this monitoring, Kaltura promises the SDK can greatly shorten load times and offer faster video starts. This could be a big help in developing markets, the company says...
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We’ve tried HoloLens 2 and we kind of love it. In a few months’ time, Microsoft will let even more people test it out.The company this week announced Mixed Reality Dev Days. Mixed reality is Microsoft’s semi-confusing term the covers everything from HoloLens to its VR headsets made with partners. Running on May 2nd and 3rd 2019, this event will welcome developers to Microsoft’s Redmond Campus. There they’ll get hands-on time with HoloLens 2 along with other MWC anno...
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