Gear Watch Designer Mike Wickens The Tizen-based Gear smartwatches have a huge amount of appeal to consumers because of their features that Integrate with your everyday life such as calendar, weather, battery, health - with Information on steps, floors, calories and Heart Rate Monitor, and more. Tizen experts caught up with...
Bringing a taste of virtual reality to the world at large is one of the main motivations driving Google Cardboard. The company just announced a newly extended rollout of its app to 100 countries in 39 languages. The developer docs are now available in 10 different languages too."We're excited to bring...
Yes, there's an app for that. But even if there is, you definitely shouldn't write it. Not if you're an indie developer, anyway. (Or you enjoy poverty.) While it's easy to point to successful mobile apps, for small, independent app makers, these are the exceptions to the rule. See also: Without More...
Virtual reality wants to envelop everyone's eyeballs, not just those of gamers. The nascent industry wants couch potatoes, too.Oculus, the Facebook-owned VR gear maker that has come to embody the current virtual-reality wave, has been lobbying hard to make VR cinema an actual thing. The company just struck a deal last...
At the vanguard of the coming virtual reality revolution, we know that movies won't be far behind games. But movie makers need tools. To help the cause, Jaunt just unveiled one of the most powerful yet: The Neo VR camera, built from the ground up as a bespoke 360-degree camera. Neo can't...
While gamers wait patiently for their virtual-reality headsets to go on sale, there's another industry ripe for the VR picking: movies. That means, as VR technology matures, filmmakers have to work out a new approach to their craft. But if they get it right, audiences are in for a far more immersive...
Valve and HTC’s Vive—the most high-profile virtual reality headset that isn’t called Oculus Rift—has started its journey to would-be game makers. The news broke in a blog post by Valve’s Chet Faliszek on Friday, who explained that the first batch of developer kits have shipped to folks all over the content-making...
When it comes to developer tools, Google made them rain like a dance enthusiast bestowing dollar bills on a virtuoso performer Thursday at its Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco.The announcements covered updates on existing software tools, as well as brand-new ones for everyone from game developers, virtual-reality media...
One of the most intriguing—yet still underappreciated—elements of Pebble's latest flagship smartwatch, the Pebble Time, was the late-breaking announcement that the gadget will support "smartstraps."Pebble TimeSmartstraps are basically hardware extensions to the smartwatch that can augment its capabilities or provide brand-new ones. The concept is pretty simple—think of a watchband...
There are two Consumer Electronics Shows every year. One is all about glitz, with big gadget companies producing gonzo exhibits and lavish parties. The other is a low-key affair, where executives in back rooms discuss initiatives that will shape technology’s future. The latter is where I met Matt Apfel, Samsung’s vice...
ReadWriteDrive is an ongoing series covering the future of transportation.It's looking increasingly likely that we've reached peak car, the point at which overall automobile usage tops out. The U.S. and Europe appear to be at that point now; the rest of the world may follow within a decade.You'd think that...
Tizen TV News The HOT News of the day is that Samsung have decided to start shipping Tizen on ALL of their upcoming Smart TVs starting 2015. According to industry sources, Samsung have taken this bold move following a meeting that took place on 29 December, and decided to...
Nothing can get Amazon down, not even brouhahas over warehouse labor relations. Instead, the e-commerce giant would rather put on its Douglas Fir-colored glasses and get into the spirit a little early.Amazon's earnings may be dismal, but its e-commerce business remains the core of its business. With that, there's a...
When YouTube kicked off its creator marketing campaign in May, the Google-owned video site hoped to attract new viewers. More than that, YouTube wanted to get advertisers keen on the site's homegrown stars. It was the site's way of saying, "Hey! Look at our stars, aren’t they just primed and perfect...
In her keynote address at VidCon, YouTube's unofficial, annual convention, Susan Wojcicki, the Google executive who took over the video site this year, looked over a packed audience at the Anaheim Convention Center. Many of the people seated there were a special breed of YouTube users—the people YouTube calls "creators,"...
Just as YouTube isn’t just about Gangnam Style and viral videos of animals eating burritos, the online-video conclave VidCon, which kicks off a little little later today in Anaheim, Calif., isn't just a giant celebration of all things YouTube. In fact, VidCon is really two conventions in one.The first is for YouTube's...
Having appeased its core crowd of PlayStation gamers (so far, anyway), Sony is looking to cram everyone else into the proverbial living room—all while doling out more goodies to its devotees. At this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the company revealed plans to release a new version of its PlayStation “micro-console”...
Wednesday, at the Code Conference in Los Angeles, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts told an audience of technology executives, analysts and journalists that he’s “trying to change the company.” He has a team comprising more than a thousand software engineers, he said, suggesting the cable provider wants to become a major...
The Tizen Association today announced an additional 37 new partners that will be joining the Tizen Partner Program, which was initially launched at the Tizen Developer Summit in Korea, November 2013, and now stands at a total of 88 partners. Collectively they will bring their expertise together for the development...
There is a giant Michelle Phan billboard ad facing the office building where I work.I happen upon this billboard day in and day out. The ad displays Phan in two halves, one with her usual brunette styling, and the other with lavender hair and accompanying makeup. The slogan, “You help us...
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