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YouView Shifts Hybrid Service to the Cloud

The YouView UK DTT + OTT hybrid service, originally developed as ‘Project Canvas’, has redesigned its platform and has moved to the cloud. A new HTML5-based interface will be rolled out across the UK. Every set top box provided by YouView’s shareholder partners TalkTalk and BT – as well as all original devices bought by … Read more

John Lewis Invests in VR

UK retailer, John Lewis has invested in “virtual interior design” company DigitalBridge as part of its JLab accelerator programme. The investment was made after a successful trial of the firm’s technology which allows customers to visualise how purchases would look in their home. DigitalBridge’s virtual design tool can be integrated into a retailer’s own website, … Read more

Covent Garden To Try AR for Xmas

140 shops and restaurants in London’s Covent Garden shopping district are taking part in an AR project over the period up to the end of the year. The project is being run by Blippar, which has an app for Android and iOS. Activities available include: Swing tags on select items in-store unlocking ‘gift picks’, rewards … Read more

Christie To Work with Barbican Centre

Christie said it has signed a long-term partnership agreement with the Barbican Centre in London, UK, for laser phosphor projection, LED video walls, as well as Christie MicroTiles and Christie Pandoras Box media servers. To coincide with this new partnership, the Barbican is holding an open call for artists, collectives and designers across all disciplines … Read more

DVB Approves ABR Multicast

Following on from its approval of HDR last week (DVB Approves HDR, HFR and NGA for Broadcast), the DVB Steering Board has approved the Commercial Requirements for Adaptive Bit Rate Streaming Multicast, the stage that precedes the development of a technical specification. The specification is intended to provide a way to transmit linear video at … Read more

Optoma Creates a Magic Carpet

Optoma has developed a ‘Magic Carpet’ interactive projection system with Loxit Ltd and Sensory Guru that uses a height adjustment system that can be controlled with a smartphone or tablet app and features the Optoma X320UST ultra short throw projector. It produces an image up to 3.6 metres wide. Optoma said that more than 500 … Read more