Games/Interactive
Dolby Vision HDR is Ready for Testing on Xbox One (Engadget)
Microsoft promised Dolby Vision HDR support for the Xbox One and starting today, testers with an Xbox One S or Xbox One X (and a compatible 4K TV) can try it out with Netflix strea... More
Adobe Announces Open Platform for Experience Design with Adobe XD CC (MESA)
Adobe announced that Adobe XD is opening its platform to enable users to customize their tools with an ecosystem of community and partner-built plugins. Leveraging Adobe XD APIs, d... More
PwC Launches 2-Year Digital Skills Course to Train 1,000 Employees on Everything From Drones to Blockchain (Digiday)
PwC is launching a two-year training program to boost the digital skills of its own employees. Beginning in January, PwC’s intermediate to advanced skill-building program, called... More
The eSports Industry is Growing – Now Web Infrastructure Needs to Keep Up (ReadWrite)
Like traditional sports, e-sports can be costly. A prime component of e-sports infrastructure is video streaming, which enables competition. Viewers are able to share the videos an... More
CBS Sports Launches a Google Home Action for Fantasy Football Players (Digiday)
Instead of asking your friends or your cousins who to add to your fantasy football team, CBS Sports would like you to ask your Google Assistant. The broadcaster has launched a Goog... More
IBM Gives Tennis Players a Competitive Edge with Watson at the 2018 U.S. Open (SCN)
IBM today announced that IBM Watson will now partner with tennis players and coaches to enhance their game strategy and better prepare for matches more efficiently. As a partner of... More
Report: $19.5B Spent on Video Games in U.S. During First Half of 2018 (GamesIndustry.biz)
The NPD Group has reported US consumers spend $19.5 billion on video game products in the first six months of the year. This marks an increase of 40 per cent when compared to spend... More
PwC: Regulatory Uncertainty is Largest Impediment to Blockchain Adoption (Forbes)
Regulation is proving to be the most formidable barrier to the development and deployment of blockchain solutions in business contexts, a new PricewaterhouseCoopers survey of 600 g... More
MLS and Twitter Introduce Live Match Camera Operated by Tweets (The Drum)
Major League Soccer (MLS) is going to new lengths to build the appeal of its product, both on an off the field. Most recently, it has allowed fans on Twitter the opportunity to con... More
New York is the Capital of a Booming Artificial Intelligence Industry (Bloomberg)
From Silicon Valley to Wall Street, there’s increasing demand for highly skilled workers in artificial intelligence and machine learning. But a limited pool of talent has allowed... More
IBM Researchers Propose ‘Factsheets’ for AI Transparency (VentureBeat)
There’s no consistent, agreed-upon way AI services should be “created, tested, trained, deployed, and evaluated,” Aleksandra Mojsilovic, head of AI foundations at IBM Researc... More
Twitch Prime Ditches Ad-Free Viewing As It Woos YouTube Creators (FastCompany)
Watching people play Fortnite on Twitch will soon involve exposure to advertising even if you’re an Amazon Prime subscriber. Amazon is removing universal ad-free viewing as a Pri... More
CBS All Access Goes Live on Amazon Prime Video Channels (Deadline)
After seeing subscription gains for Showtime when the network’s stand-alone app entered the Amazon’s Prime Video Channels arena, CBS has reached a similar deal with the tech gi... More
Three Things AI Could Do for Your Content Production (Videomind)
IDC forecasts global Artificial Intelligence (AI) spending will likely cross US$46 billion in 2020. Like in many areas, AI is disrupting the media industry, as large amounts of dat... More
Microsoft’s Walmart Partnership Isn’t About Retail — It’s About Streaming (VentureBeat)
It’s now less about the hardware and more about the back-end technology that will be able to support live-streaming across the country. Even with high-speed connections and respo... More
5 Emerging Technologies that 5G Will Positively Disrupt (Forbes)
Immersive Gaming. 5G has many implications when it comes to gaming, and especially when it comes to gaming with AR and VR. For example, 5G is likely to make VR less cost-prohibitiv... More
How Close are We to the End of the Gaming Console? (Washington Post)
The measuring stick for success among the big three gaming companies of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo has long been a question of how many consoles they have sold. But all three hav... More
Sony Hits 500 Million PlayStation Milestone (THR)
Sales of 81 million for the PlayStation 4 (PS4) have helped push total hardware sales of all generations of the console past the half-billion mark. To commemorate this, Sony is rel... More
Facebook, Apple are Serious About Augmented Reality (Forbes)
When Facebook and Apple make extraordinary investments in new technology like they are with augmented reality, you know it's something to pay attention to. Both companies have made... More
VR, AR, FAANGs and OTT … What Comes Next for the Sports Industry? (SportsPro)
Making sense of the trends of today is crucial to understanding what might happen tomorrow. Nowhere does that mantra ring truer than in the fast-moving point at which sport meets t... More
