Games/Interactive
Virtual Reality Will Have Its Biggest Holiday Season Ever (Fortune)
All I want for Christmas is VR, according to a new study by Global Web Index. One in four millennials put VR gadgets at the top of their wish list this holiday season. And there ar... More
Sony Will Sell a PlayStation 4 for $200 on Black Friday (Engadget)
It's hard to believe that Thanksgiving is almost upon us, but it also means that one of the biggest retail days of the year, Black Friday, is quickly approaching. With that in mind... More
The Future of Work: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform the Employee Experience (Forbes)
Artificial Intelligence is on the verge of penetrating every major industry from healthcare to advertising, transportation, finance, legal, education, and now inside the workplace.... More
Facebook Sets its Sights on Yelp with a New App Called Local (Quartz)
The new app will still track events, and even offer curated suggestions for local events you might want to attend. But its main focus now is on surfacing places to visit, partially... More
IBM’s Quest to Design the ‘New Helvetica’ (Co.Design)
IBM is no stranger to icons. Over the years, it’s created quite a few: the mainframe computer, the ThinkPad laptop, the Selectric typewriter, the Eye-Bee-M logo. The company hope... More
HBO Launches Steven Soderbergh’s Interactive Storytelling App ‘Mosaic’ Ahead of TV Premiere (Variety)
Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh’s latest project, “Mosaic,” is launching first as an app that lets viewers choose the narrative outcome of a murder mystery. HBO on Wednesday d... More
What’s Holding Back VR? (TechCrunch)
The nature of the technology, for starters. VR is not a tweak to an existing platform; it is a tectonic shift in how we interact with information and each other. It engages our sen... More
Apple to Ramp Up Work on Augmented Reality Headset (Bloomberg)
Apple Inc., seeking a breakthrough product to succeed the iPhone, aims to have technology ready for an augmented-reality headset in 2019 and could ship a product as early as 2020. ... More
OpenText Further Enables Enterprise AI with Release 16 Enhancement Pack 3 (MESA)
OpenText today announced the availability of OpenText Release 16 Enhancement Pack 3. This release delivers improved analytics and artificial intelligence capabilities via OpenText ... More
Millicom Deploys TiVo’s Next-Generation User Experience Platform in Colombia, with Plans to Expand Across Latin America (SSN)
TiVo announced that Millicom, a leading provider of cable and mobile services for more than 57 million customers in Latin America and Africa, has selected TiVo’s next-generation ... More
IBM’s Watson Puts the AI in Air Travel (TechWire Asia)
Even the best safety record of any airline can, of course, be worked on, and Korean Air has taken a technological step to improve its safety record even further, by utilizing machi... More
The A-E of eSports (Irdeto Perspective)
D: Digital dialogue with millennials-Now here’s why the brands are really buzzed. Advertising dollars! eSports fans are overwhelmingly young and online who typically don’t watc... More
Cisco Spark Assistant Bringing Voice Commands to Meeting Hardware (TechCrunch)
Anyone who has used modern meeting software knows it’s still fraught with challenges trying to get everyone into the meeting, futzing with the hardware or software and smoothly i... More
Can Blockchain, AI Accelerate the Arrival of the IoT Economy? (Forbes)
The collective network of connected devices known as the Internet-of-Things (IoT) is growing. Gartner estimates that there will be 8.4B IoT devices by 2020. The bulk of this growth... More
Is VR the Future of Content? Here’s What Netflix and Dolby Have to Say (NDTV)
"VR is a very differentiated thing, and there are areas where VR has a very strong impact, like gaming for example," says Mathias Bendull, Head of Consumer Audio Playback, Broadcas... More
Why Every Organization Needs an Augmented Reality Strategy (HBR)
There is a fundamental disconnect between the wealth of digital data available to us and the physical world in which we apply it. While reality is three-dimensional, the rich data ... More
Artificial Intelligence Investing Gets Ready for Prime Time (Forbes)
Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science that aims to create intelligent machines that teach themselves. Much of AI’s growth has occurred in the last decade. The u... More
The eSports Industry is Booming – Can Blockchain Supercharge It? (Forbes)
The growth of a multiplayer game and its viability for esports depends heavily on the community. A key problem for most gaming communities is toxicity. Toxic communities are filled... More
Apple Sees its Mobile Devices as Platform for Artificial Intelligence (Reuters)
Later this week, Apple is set to begin taking pre-orders for its new smartphone, the iPhone X – which starts at $999 and uses artificial intelligence (AI) features embedded in th... More
Facebook Finally Adapts to 4K Video (TechCrunch)
If you’re sick of your beautiful videos looking crummy on Facebook, there’s good news for you. After some super HD videos started popping up on the social network, Facebook now... More