Google Glass and the Future of Second Screening and TV News

Streaming Media

Beginning next week CNN is to expand its Google Glass experiment by integrating citizen journalist service iReport with its existing Google Glass News Alerts. In Europe, TDF Media Services sees potential in the device for second second TV apps.

http://www.streamingmediaglobal.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/Google-Glass-and-the-Future-of-Second-Screening-and-TV-News-93005.aspx

BSkyB Funds Whistle Sport, Its Latest Video Start-Up Investment

Streaming Media

The U.K. pay TV operator has made serial investments in several young online video companies to safeguard its future. Here's a look at BSkyB's start-up portfolio.

http://www.StreamingMediaGlobal.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/BSkyB-Funds-Whistle-Sport-Its-Latest-Video-Start-Up-Investment-100260.aspx

Blurring the real and the virtual live

Broadcastbridge

The capture of depth information in scenes is an increasingly rich field of development but it has so far remained on the fringes of TV production because of the need to either use physical markers on objects or to render the output in post. Start-up company Zinemath aims to change that with a technology called zLense it claims to be the first real-time 3D depth mapping tool for broadcast.

https://www.thebroadcastbridge.com/content/entry/860/blurring-the-real-and-the-virtual-live

When IT meets post

Broadcast 

Information technology (IT) is fast becoming the industry’s technical backbone, as the storing, processing and sharing of data using computers and computer networks pervades set-to-screen workflows.

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/in-depth/when-it-meets-post/5062806.article

Camcorders get cloud streaming capability

Broadcastbridge

The IP wave has broken on the shores of wireless connectivity as several pro-camcorder manufacturers announce cloud-integration capability removing the need for traditional video uplink. 

https://www.thebroadcastbridge.com/content/entry/875/camcorders-cloud-streaming

Virtual realities: the transition of playout technologies

Digital TV Europe

Software virtualised on standard platforms promises to revolutionise the cost and agility of broadcast operations, but the transition is not without difficulty. 

http://www.digitaltveurope.net/262961/virtual-realities-the-transition-of-playout-technologies/

Virtualised Infrastructure has a Legacy to Match

IBC

Playout automation touches every area of a broadcast or video service distribution facility yet the time is drawing near when it will run on virtual machines in a datacentre or in a public cloud over IP network.

http://www.ibc.org/page.cfm/action=library/libID=2/libEntryID=257/listID=4