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The NBA will Broadcast More than 25 Games in VR This Season (Recode)

The NBA is expanding its push into virtual reality. The league announced Thursday it will broadcast at least one game per week — a minimum of 25 games on the season — in virtua... More

The Rocky Horror Picture Show Will Feature Snapchat’s First Live TV Activations (Adweek)

Even if viewers don't throw rice or shout at the screen tonight during Fox's remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, they'll have a new way to participate—via Snapchat. For the ... More

Will VR Ever Matter? (Bloomberg)

Daydream View, Google’s new virtual-reality headset, is made of cloth. It uses a smartphone as a screen and looks like a fancy sleeping mask. “Cozy” was the word VR chief Cla... More

Spotify Opens Samsung TV App to Free Members, but Only On Newer Models (VentureBeat)

Spotify has announced that free users will have full on-demand access to the music-streaming service on Samsung’s smart TVs for the first time. So far, one of the perks of being ... More

Facebook Wants You to Buy Movie Tickets, Order Pizza From its App (Recode)

From deciding where to eat, to booking your next hair appointment, to buying movie tickets at the local theatre, Facebook wants to eventually control, or be involved with, every de... More

Harvard Business Review Built a Bot on Slack that Delivers Workplace Advice (Digiday)

Slack is gaining a foothold in many offices as the center on their communications, leading Harvard Business Review to focus attention on how to get its content inside the app. HBR ... More

The Story Behind Your Work Is the Inspiration for Slack’s New Branded Podcast (Adweek)

Finally landing your dream job is only half the story in Slack's new career-focused podcast. On Monday, the work-collaboration software company launched a branded podcast series ca... More

Back To Reality: The ‘Pokémon GO’ Craze Didn’t Really Help Local Businesses (Forbes)

At its peak this summer, one in ten Americans was playing Pokémon GO. The smash hit game for catching Nintendo’s popular digital characters around real-world neighborhoods soare... More

Slack CEO Describes ‘Holy Grail’ of Virtual Assistants (CIO)

Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield has an audacious goal: Turning his messaging and collaboration platform into an uber virtual assistant capable of searching every enterprise applicati... More

Are eSports Eating Up Traditional Sports Viewership? (MIT Technology Review)

NFL ratings have plummeted this year. Commentators have blamed the election, a changing TV industry, shifts in viewing format, and even a lack of big-name stars. But there may be a... More

Periscope Targets Pro Market with Producer Launch (TVB Europe)

Periscope has launched Producer, allowing users to broadcast with professional equipment as well as mobile phones and tablets. The Twitter-owned video-streaming app is targeting br... More

Sony Bows ‘Ghostbusters’ Virtual Reality App (HMM)

On the heels of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's release of Ghostbusters: Answer the Call on disc, the studio has launched the Ghostbusters VR — Now Hiring app for iOS and Andr... More

With Shortcut, ‘This American Life’ is Trying to Make Its Show — and Other Podcasts — More Sharable (Nieman Journalism Lab)

Of the many problems that vex podcast and radio producers, the shareability of audio — or the lack thereof — remains at or near the top of the list. Unlike photos, videos, and ... More

Why Virtual Sports Games Will Drive the Next Wave of Growth for eSports (REDEF)

As one might expect, the top esports games today all cater to so-called “hardcore gamers” – those who enthusiastically spend countless hours mastering complex game mechanics,... More

NBC Preps Interactive Music Competition Series ‘The Stream’ (B&C)

NBC is giving aspiring musicians a chance to be discovered with a social-driven show called The Stream, which sees music industry titans seeking to unearth the next superstar via t... More

Hold the VR Hype: VR Headset Install Base Small to Start, Study Says

Despite all the recent hype around virtual reality, just 6% of Americans will own a VR headset by the end of the year, or 11.4 million people, and roughly 93% of those headsets wil... More

VR Started with Gaming — But It Will Take Over Every Other Industry (Ars Technica)

“We are looking at sensory immersion. The ideal scenario with virtual reality is to get it as near to real as possible for you to maximise that environment. “From the autonomou... More

What Online Broadcasters Can Learn From Video Game Streamers (Streaming Media)

Streaming in many respects is about creating visibility, audience engagement, and monetization, and gamers know how to do this well. They accrue millions of followers by producing ... More

To Fuel the Rocketship, Virtual Reality is in Search of the Killer App (ARC)

If you are one of the chosen few that managed to pre-order Sony’s PlayStation VR headset, then it is probably a safe bet that you have the next few weeks blocked off. Sony’s so... More

NHL’s Streaming Season Kicks Off With New Apple TV and ‘Arena’ Apps (TechCrunch)

It’s time for hockey season, news related to which I must cover because of the circumstances of my birth (Canada). So I will tell you that the NHL has a new slate of digital offe... More

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