One of the first things people do when they put on a virtual reality headset is try to look down at their hands. One company has the technology to ensure that you’ll actually see them. Leap Motion has released a new video to show the capabilities of its Orion hand-tracking techno … | Continue reading
Samsung may shut down its Milk Music streaming service and replace it with — wait for it — Tidal. According to a report from Variety, Samsung has laid off a good deal of the Milk Music team, and completely ignored it when showing off services integrated in its new TVs at CES. Thi … | Continue reading
Two weeks ago, Meerkat CEO Ben Rubin sent an email to his company’s 48 investors laying bare an observation that he’d made peace with months earlier: Meerkat, the livestreaming app that played the role of darling one year ago at the annual SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, was fail … | Continue reading
"I'm making a music video. 'Peeno Noir: An Ode to Black Penis.'" So begins one of the most purely joyful viral music hits of last year, a song written for Tituss Burgess' character on Tina Fey's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. At first glance, an ode to male anatomy might not seem lik … | Continue reading
Live esports isn’t going anywhere. Twitch, the leading site for livestreaming gameplay video, announced today that it has extended its partnership with the ESL esports organization. Fans of Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and League of Legends can expect to keep seeing … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Stephen Curry’s 33 points lift Warriors past Thunder HANG TIME NEW JERSEY — The Oklahoma City Thunder had some problems down the stretch of games against the Golden State Warriors on Saturday and the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday. The Thunder were outscored 18-7 in the … | Continue reading
VR video experiences are getting increasingly easy to make and now require little or no kit for people watching. While you could explore Leo’s winning Oscar’s moment in luxurious 360° views, you should really watch this awesome film from PBS’ FRONTLINE investigative team working … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Gasol, Bulls fall short in Orlando By Ben Leibowitz, Special to NBA.com With slightly more than a month left in the NBA regular season, players league-wide are grinding toward the finish line. Some players continue to play at a high level, while others (understandably) slu … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Kyle Lowry runs wild vs. Cavaliers By Will Laws, Special to NBA.com It’s officially March, which means it’s almost crunch time for teams hanging on in the postseason race or simply hoping to improve their playoff seeding. Two of this week’s three hottest shooters play for … | Continue reading
Smartphones dürften mittlerweile die meistgenutzten Kameras der Welt sein. Aber noch immer knipsen User in der Regel einfach nur drauf los. Gerade die leider viel zu oft auftauchenden Hochkantvideos zeigen, wer ein paar Grundregeln kennt, mach... | Continue reading
When Slack announced new voice and video services earlier this week, the enterprise messaging startup signalled a move into territory dominated by the likes of Microsoft’s Skype. But it looks like this is not the only moment when the two company’s paths have crossed in recent tim … | Continue reading
Samsung's Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge don't launch until March 11, but a few people who've managed to get their hands on the devices early have already started to put them through torture tests.YouTuber JerryRigEverything is one of those guys. In his latest video, he scratches, burns a … | Continue reading
Barnes & Noble has notified its users that it will shut down the Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store on March 15th. The company sent out an email to users and developers on Thursday explaining that third-party app sales and in-app purchases would soon cease to work … | Continue reading
Someone at Google Maps clearly loves video games. In the past the company has snuck Pac-Man and Pokemon Easter eggs into its mapping service, and today The Legend of Zelda is joining in as well. It's a small change, but a tiny, pixelated Link now replaces the little peg typically … | Continue reading
Die Video-Reihe "Honest Game Trailers" bewirbt Games, wie sie in Wirklichkeit sind. Das Satire-Schema kennt man auch von Filmen. Das Thema Spiele ist aber irgendwie doch nerdig-sympathischer, zumal der neuste Clou das Wii-Game "Zelda: Twilight Pri... | Continue reading
YouTube channel Burger Fiction is honing the art of the supercut. Videos like "Ever Best Visual Effects Winner. Ever." and "Every Jason Statham Punch. Ever," are goofy, viral fodder created with the TLC generally reserved for headier fare. Its latest video, "Cursing Without Cursi … | Continue reading
A brand new retro console that uses plastic cartridges - tempting, right? That's what this whole Coleco Chameleon issue is about. A company called Retro Video Game Systems has a machine called the Coleco Chameleon and it was inches away from Kickstarter - until some strange and w … | Continue reading
Social Media - Facebook is making it easier to get newsletter subscriptions via Instant Articles. Also: now you can target specific companies on LinkedIn with ads; use Facebook's new emojis for B2B; and ... | Continue reading
There’s definitely something going down in feminine hygiene land this week. First, Always releases a slightly sad video featuring a group of American teenagers being forced to slowly realize on camera that the only female emoji in the ‘workers’ category is a bride. “Unless you co … | Continue reading
A $3 million vide game tournament is happening right now in Shanghai, China, pitting 16 of the best Dota 2 teams against each other. But what, pray tell, does any of that mean?Dota 2 is an immensely popular video game that mixes elements of many genres, from sports simulation to … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Highlights from Thursday’s games NEWS OF THE MORNING LeBron dismisses criticism of Miami trip | Warriors tie all-time home win streak | Gentry sorry for rant after loss to Rockets No. 1: LeBron dismisses criticism of Miami trip — The Cleveland Cavaliers host the Washington … | Continue reading
ICX Media, a Washington, D.C. startup promising to help video creators find an audience and make money, announced today that it has raised $2.5 million in seed funding. The company was founded by Michael Avon, Tom MacIsaac, Steve McCord and Joey McCord (pictured above). Three of … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Ty Lawson will join the Indiana Pacers for the rest of this season after being bought out by the Rockets HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — Ty Lawson didn’t go long without a team to play for. Two days after being waived by the Houston Rockets, Lawson has agreed to a deal with the I … | Continue reading
The fantastic rhythm action series Rhythm Heaven is getting the video game equivalent of a greatest hits album. Today Nintendo announced the next game in the series, called Rhythm Heaven Megamix, which brings together the best levels from each game in the series, including the Ga … | Continue reading
While Twitch and YouTube gobble up live and recorded video for traditional gaming platforms, a battle is heating up on smartphones. Stre.am, a mobile livestreaming video company, is expanding from camera-based content to video games — at least on Android. It’s using the new addit … | Continue reading
Most videos on the Web are just not worth seeing in full – or at least this is how the founders of Vibby want you to see things. Available for free, Vibby is a lightweight Web-based video editing tool that lets you easily select the most outstanding moments from any video and qui … | Continue reading
Thanks to smartphones and the rise of apps like Snapchat and Periscope, vertical videos have gone from being an annoyance requiring a workaround to a popular and often preferred video file format. That shift has inspired a number of startups to focus on the medium, in an effort t … | Continue reading
Niniane Wang was watching the infamous “iPhone vs. Evo” video — a short animated film of two creatures poking fun at the iPhone — on YouTube and was thinking of all the ways a video like that could be more customizable and personalized. It also helped spark the idea for her to st … | Continue reading
For Microsoft, 2015 was a year that’ll go down in the history books — and not because it released a new version of Windows or Office, but because the company fundamentally shifted in a big way by embracing open source. John Shewchuk, a technical fellow at Microsoft whose job it i … | Continue reading
Cycling enthusiast and Mashable video producer Jon Lynn takes three Big Cat electric bikes to the beach at Coney Island for an off-roading test drive. How do they handle across a smooth boardwalk or up a steep sand dune? Go wheels up with our video review! Read more...More about … | Continue reading
Vimeo, the video network and underdog to the global behemoth that is YouTube, has given its iOS application a massive redesign today aimed at making it easier to upload, discover and play videos. A key part of the revamp involves new, cleaner navigation combined with an element o … | Continue reading
I get asked about Sonic a lot. Usually a friend or family member who hasn't played video games since the Sega Genesis will drunkenly corner me at a barbecue or holiday party, and ask, with their index finger at my chest, "Whatever happened to that chili dog-munching hedgehog, any … | Continue reading
It sounds like it could be the start of a JJ Abrams movie: 16 teams compete to win a big cash prize by landing a spacecraft on the Moon. Except, instead it’s a series of JJ Abrams documentaries about real life. The celebrated TV and film producer has teamed up with Oscar-nominate … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Highlights from Wednesday’s games NEWS OF THE MORNING Durant: Thunder ‘fooling ourselves’ about status | Bulls’ Butler making progress | Right shoulder bothering Kobe | Gentry: Pelicans’ playoff hopes are over No. 1: Durant: Thunder ‘fooling ourselves’ about being great te … | Continue reading
Ob HTC die VR-Begeisterung nutzen kann, um das schwächelnde Smartphone-geschäft wieder anzukurbeln? Nach einem ersten klitzekleinen Teaserchen hat das Unternehmen nun ein Video veröffentlicht, das Lust machen soll auf das kommende O... | Continue reading
These days Scottish video game programmer and designer Chris Sawyer flies under the radar. The inventor of RollerCoaster Tycoon seems happy to let Atari build new games in the much-loved strategy series while he gets on with other, pressing matters, such as riding real-life rolle … | Continue reading
Der schwedische Bastelkellermusiker Martin Molin hat in 14monatiger Tüftele aus 3000 Holzteilen, einem Vibraphon, einer Kickdrum, einer Bassgitarre und zahlreichen weiteren Elementen einen mechanischen Musikapparat konstruiert, der, durch kr&a... | Continue reading
The HTC Vive is an incredible thing to play around with. It just is. I don't know if it's the future of video games, but I do like it an awful lot. However, there are undeniably some hurdles to jump over when it comes to virtual reality. For starters, the HTC Vive will set you ba … | Continue reading
YouTube doesn’t have an official way to search by address, but a YouTube experiment on GitHub lets you type in a street name and it’ll dig up every video shot in that area. The results can be a little creepy or just plain weird, as Reddit found out. People have found clips like t … | Continue reading
Apple Pay? Samsung Pay? EC- und Kreditkarten mit NFC-Chips? Immer noch viel zu kompliziert. Google hat in einigen Vierteln in San Francisco ein Pilotprojekt gestartet, mit dem das Bezahlen noch einfacher werden soll. Smartphone und Plastikkarten mu... | Continue reading
Internet users in Canada are becoming more connected, especially when it comes to video viewing, according to 2015 research. | Continue reading
Ad blocking continues to gain ground as more consumers discover how easy it is to install a browser plug-in that eliminates the ads they consider most intrusive—video pre-rolls, displays, interstitials, page takeovers, etc. The consensus is that ad blocking is a headache fo … | Continue reading
Slack just added a new feature that makes it a lot more competitive with Skype and Google Hangouts.The company is now testing a feature, currently available to all users, that allows people to make voice calls within Slack. The company is also working on video calls and screen sh … | Continue reading
VESA announced today that the DisplayPort 1.4 specification has been finished. The new standard allows for up to 8K video, implements new color capabilities, and adds a visually lossless compression method to ensure the standard will meet the needs of 5K or even 8K displays. | Continue reading
Even if you aren't at Nikki Beach on March 16 for Hardwell's performance at Miami Music Week, you'll be able to experience it all in a virtual reality and 360-video livestream that immerses you in the crowd. Chances are you've never experienced Hardwell like this. Actually, we kn … | Continue reading
Japanese lager brand Asahi is set to unveil a super-slow motion video booth experience tonight (2 March) at the Old Truman Brewery. | Continue reading
YouTube is launching a global production program and partnering with the United Nations in an effort to highlight and support women's voices across the platform. The video networks will invest in videos created by female filmmakers through the global YouTube Spaces program, which … | Continue reading
Robin and Saul Klein are the ‘father and son’ VCs behind the new LocalGlobe seed fund (website, twitter, Medium). Just recently they led a £1.1 million investment in online mortgage advisor Trussle. It’s likely to be among the first of many. Saul has been actively involved foundi … | Continue reading