Product Reviews
2020 Best of Show Special Edition Awards Open for Nominations
Honoring and helping to promote outstanding new products introduced this spring.
Video Edge
Augmented and Virtual Reality
KAWS and AcuteArt Develop and Deploy AR “Holiday”
Working in AR has allowed the artist expand the horizons for his work, while at the same time simplifying a lot of the logistics.
Product News and Reviews
NewTek Develops Next-Generation TriCaster Mini
The plug-and-play setup of TriCaster Mini allows new video producers to get started quickly, and easily work their way up to creating more sophisticated...
Video Edge
Deep Learning and Lumière Brothers Footage: 1896 and Hand-Cranked Cameras vs. AI and 4K, Everybody Wins
A neural network was utilized to create a 4K version of The Lumière Brothers' film "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat.”
Product News and Reviews
What’s the Deal With… Sony’s Xperia 1 II?
The system was developed by Sony's Alpha camera engineers, complete with real-time, eye-tracking autofocus, a 20fps burst mode, and RAW support.
Consumption
Join MLK’s 1963 March on Washington… in Virtual Reality
TIME Studios’ immersive project, “The March,” brings the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic "I Have a Dream" speech to virtual...
Video Edge
Bringing Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech to Virtual Reality
The project will be the most life-like and realistic rendering of a human performance in VR to date.
Product News and Reviews
Blackmagic Design Releases New ATEM Mini
The new ATEM Mini makes it easy to create professional multi-camera productions for livestreaming to YouTube or presenting using Skype.
Product Reviews
Blackmagic’s ATEM Mini Brings Broadcast Quality to Your YouTube and Twitch Streams (Engadget)
This in-depth review of Blackmagic's affordable multi-camera switcher calls it "an incredible value" and spells out why there's nothing else on the market like...
Video Edge
View It As It Was: The Smithsonian’s Virtual Tours of Mosul, Aleppo and Palmyra
“A landmark exhibition, not only for its innovative use of digital technology within a museum context, but also for the poignant story it tells.”
Research and Development
“Kórsafn:” Developing Björk’s Generative, AI-Powered Environment
“an architectural structure downtown manhattan offered me the hand in an AI tango and i accepted the call, i am alert with curiosity waiting...
Production
Immersive, Responsive: Floating in the Falling (Digital) Universe of Flowers
teamLab's digital artworks are designed to dissolve "the boundary between the body and the artwork."
Video Edge
Explore the VR Experience “Seven Worlds, One Planet” (and See It Being Created)
BBC Earth and VR artist Rosie Summers collaborated to create this VR 360 experience
News and Features
Kandao Puts an 8K 360 Camera in Your Pocket
Is this the smallest 8K 360 camera in the world?
Video Edge
“Worlds Beyond Earth:” The Hayden Planetarium’s Immersive Experience
"Our ability to render these distant worlds is nothing short of astonishing."
Product News and Reviews
Roland Introduces GO:LIVECAST Live Streaming Studio for Smartphones
GO:LIVECAST functions like an instantly-accessible, mini broadcast studio to make online live video production
Video Edge
Panasonic Debuts HDR-Capable UHD VR “Eyeglasses”
Are VR headsets soon to be a thing of the past?
Video Edge
See How Microsoft Is Re-Creating 17th Century Technology Using Holograms
Taking viewers back in time, Microsoft partners with French technology company Iconem to deliver an immersive, photorealistic mixed reality experience of the famed Mont-Saint-Michel...
Video Edge
How AI Helps Unlock the Secrets of Old Master and Modernist Paintings (Ars Technica)
Here are two ways that machine learning and artificial intelligence have been used in the world of art history and restoration.
Video Edge
Virtual Reality Projects to Help Tackle Climate Change (Edgy)
Virtual reality's potential as an "empathy machine" might just be the tool to help more of the population take the threat of climate change...
Video Edge
AR, VR and MR Market Predicted to Reach $30 Billion Over Next Decade
New report was released from analysts at IDTechEx.
Video Edge
Three Things You Need to Know About AI-Powered “Deep Fakes” in Art and Culture (Cuseum)
These are some of the creative ways AI has enhanced the museum-going experience.
Video Edge
Dawn of the MTV Era: Video Art Pioneer Nam June Paik’s Vision
Three-year traveling exhibit opens in London for the groundbreaking Korean-American artist known as the father of video art.
Distribution
Artist William Kentridge’s Hand-Drawn Art Projected as Video Onto Times Square Billboards
As part of Times Square's long-running Midnight Moment series, Kentridge's 'To What End?' will be running for three minutes every night through the month...
Augmented and Virtual Reality
TIME’s New AR App Is a Devastating Look at the Deforestation of the Amazon
The app follows a team of journalists as they meet the indigenous people of the Amazon fighting the illegal logging and severe threats to...
Product News and Reviews
Post Malone Takes AJA Ki Pro GO on “Runaway” Tour
"With all of the show’s smoke and pyrotechnics, we need a high-quality file or else the effects will break up when encoded, so H.264...
Mobile Video
Professional Quality Video from a Mobile Device (Videomaker)
Two leading app developers—from Filmic and LumaTouch—explain how their apps can help smartphones turn into professional-level cameras.
News
StreamGear To Deliver Smartphone-Empowered Streaming Video Production with VidiMo
Next-level VidiMo hardware and app puts a full live production toolkit in the hands of anyone with a smartphone and camera.
Consumption
“Traveling While Black:” The (Virtual) Reality of Race Relations in America
The VR experience "Traveling While Black" highlights the urgent need to remember the past and also to learn from it, and facilitates a dialogue...
Mobile Video
Turning Horizontal Content Into Engaging Vertical Videos
Once upon a time, there was a very tried and true cinematic rule that moving images were only meant to be captured and consumed...
Research
“Internet of Senses” To Compete With Screen-Based Experiences by 2030
The survey of 46 million early technology adopters from 15 cities around the world predicted that over the next decade, screen-based experiences will compete...
PR Wire
StreamGear Fuses Smartphone and Dedicated Cameras into New Live Video Production Paradigm with VidiMo
New hardware-and-app solution turns a phone and external video source into a complete production platform, making it easier than ever before to create high-quality...
Distribution
Upcoming VR Series Will Document Life in Space Like Never Before
Since December 2018, a new camera sent up to space on the International Space Station has been capturing the life of astronauts, and the...
News Articles
Video: Deepfakes — Believe at Your Own Risk (The New York Times)
“Watch — very closely — as an ambitious group of A.I. engineers and machine-learning specialists try to mimic reality with such accuracy that you...
Product News and Reviews
QooCam Introduces Pocket 8K 360-Degree Camera
Qoocam has released QooCam 8K, the world’s smallest 8K 360-camera. Able to capture stunning 8K 30fps and 4K 120fps footage thanks to a 1/1.7″...
News Articles
A Walk on the Frontier of Art, Where the Sky Is the Limit (The New York Times)
At the intersection of art and technology is new works meant for augmented reality and virtual reality apps. “It’s going to have a huge...
Video Edge
Why Video Is the Art Form of the Moment (Artsy)
“At the 2019 edition of the Venice Biennale, video reigned. Arthur Jafa, who began his career as a cinematographer for commercial directors including Spike...
Mobile Video
New Yorker AR Experience Uses AI To Unlock the Thoughts of Inanimate Objects (VRScout)
“Ever wonder what the banana in your kitchen might be thinking? ‘Animate Objects’ is the latest feature available in the New Yorker app that...
Video
Watch: How to Make a Cinematic Vlog
In the below two-part video, photographer/director and 2019 Adobe Creative Resident Tyler Babin describes how to create cinematic vlogs, from pre-production to shooting, editing,...
Streaming
Coldplay Debuts New Album with Global Live-Streaming Performances
On Friday, November 22nd 2019, Coldplay performed two “Sunrise” and “Sunset” sets at Amman’s Citadel in Jordan, both of which were streamed live on...
Video Edge
YouTube’s First Interactive Original Takes Users on a Choose-Your-Own Adventure Museum Heist
"Heist" is an ambitious action/adventure undertaking with 31 different possible endings involving—you guessed it—a museum heist.
Video Edge
Harmony Korine Taps Snapchat’s Spectacles 3 for Experimental 3D Film “Duck Duck”
Debuting at Art Basel Miami Beach 2019 in collaboration with Gucci, multi-sensory experience transforms Miami into an unbridled dreamscape of sound and color.