Production
Virtual Production Can Be Real for Everybody. Here’s How.
The production line from development to post can be costly in part because of the timescales and in part because of the inability to...
Video Edge
How To
Making “Mythic Quest: Quarantine” — 40 iPhones and Infinite Possibilities
“The quarantine episode of ‘Mythic Quest’ is a seamless continuation for fans... and a pitch-perfect encapsulation of what it’s like to live through this...
Augmented and Virtual Reality
How VR Could (or Can) (or Will) Help Us Through This Quarantine
Learning to leverage virtual reality in our lives is a natural transition.
Augmented and Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality 101: Where and How to Begin
“The technology is less complicated than you think and is super easy to understand.”
Video
View the Infinite Wonder of a Yayoi Kusama Infinity Room
“A mirror-lined chamber populated with a dazzling and seemingly vast array of LED lights creating a disorienting sense of limitless space”
Distribute
The Genius “Workarounds” Productions Have Been Using During Lockdown
Harnessing cloud solutions to enrich video acquisition and working with machine learning applications to curate content are just some of the ways media companies...
News
TVU Networks Debuts Partyline for Virtual Communication
Offers HD video and audio synchronization for communication between remote groups
News Articles
Video Edge Announces Our Best of Show Special Edition Award
Awards honor outstanding, new, recently introduced and forthcoming products
Consumption
How Netflix’s New Interactive Special Makes the Best Use of a Branching Narrative
“The idea of being able to go down avenues and tell stories in this entirely different way was incredibly exciting,” says producer and writer...
Distribution
Ampere: Streaming Sole Growth Area Amid COVID-19’s Wake
“Streaming services are likely to come out on top here as viewers are leaning on streaming content providers heavily, just as a slew of...
Video
Watch: “In VR Meaning Is King” With Gabo Arora
Filmmaker Gabo Arora joins Angela Watercutter to discuss the possibilities yet to come in VR
Augmented and Virtual Reality
VR for Global Awareness: Inside the United Nations’ Immersive Initiatives
"We need to show the potential of what VR can do to make us better people," says Gabo Arora, the United Nations’ senior advisor...
Distribution
360-Degree VR Documentaries Heighten Prospects for Non-Profits
"We sought to understand the charitable behavior profile of VR audiences, the effectiveness of 360 video compared to more traditional forms of advertising."
Production
VR for Global Awareness: Immersive Videos from the United Nations
“We are not doing this just to raise awareness but also to build empathy,” says UN Millennium Campaign senior advisor, Gabo Arora
Distribution
Up Close and Personal, But Totally Not: “Teleportation” Tech Enables “One-on-One” Interviews
Vizrt experiments with new approaches to live, remote production
Distribution
Stay Indoors Information: Keeping the Stream Alive
“We are seeing a large uptake on low-cost OTT streaming applications as customers look to expand their reach.”
Product Reviews
The Deadline is May 1 for Digital Video and Video Edge’s Special Edition “Best of Show” Awards
"Our media technology marketplace is a vibrant place, and there's clearly plenty of innovation and hard work going on, judging by the nominations to...
Produce
Charlie Brooker: Branching Narratives and “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch”
"There were points where in working stuff out, it got like trying to do a Rubik's Cube in your head."
Consumption
How “One World: Together At Home” Came Together… and Went Out
Performances were packaged into a number of shows and livestreams broadcast on major networks across the globe, while versions of the show were also...
News
ATEN Technology Develops CN9600 “Work-From-Anywhere” Solution
ATEN Technology has released the CN9600, its newest KVM-over-IP switch that allows remote access of digital video, audio, and virtual media via remote control...
Streaming
Why Blackmagic Design’s ATEM Mini Pro Makes the Dream Stream
Blackmagic rolled out a series of software updates and one new ATEM switcher product.
Video Edge
Video Edge 2019 Product Innovation Awards Announced
Winners are selected by a panel of professional users and evaluated on criteria including innovation of concept and design, creative use of technology, price...
Distribution
Ragnar Kjartansson: Designing and Displaying the Artist’s Video Installations
On exhibit through Jan. 8 at the Hirshhorn Museum is a retrospective of internationally renowned Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson's highly personal, sometimes ironic artwork.
Product Reviews
2020 Best of Show Special Edition Awards Open for Nominations
Honoring and helping to promote outstanding new products introduced this spring.
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...
Distribution
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.
Augmented and Virtual Reality
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...
Augmented and Virtual Reality
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...
Augmented and Virtual Reality
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.”
Production
“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...
Distribution
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."
Augmented and Virtual Reality
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
Distribution
“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
Augmented and Virtual Reality
Panasonic Debuts HDR-Capable UHD VR “Eyeglasses”
Are VR headsets soon to be a thing of the past?
Augmented and Virtual Reality
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...
Research and Development
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.