Social TV will enhance advertising and enable millions to enjoy TV together
Posted on 03. Feb, 2011 by Chuck Freedman.
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Inside LG’s mega demo booth at CES 2011 I saw people playing games built on LG’s Smart TV platform. Although these early games are not yet the most graphically advanced, seeing users play with LG’s own motion remote was impressive. Could this be the first open game console platform for TV? While Xbox, PS3 and [...]
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It was as if they were reading my mind; Two gents on the shuttle ride home after an exhausting but fun Day 1 of CES in Las Vegas. I handed them my “TheZSpace” card and explained our focus on advanced interaction. They insisted I stop by their booth at Mattel, and that’s exactly what I [...]
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The Consumer Electronics Show is kicking off and TheZSpace’s Chuck Freedman is already knee-deep in the next-gen digital home technology headed for your living room in 2011. Since Chuck is gathering news and snapping photos first-hand, I’ll let him provide in-depth coverage. What I’d like to do is cover some of the announcements leading up [...]
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How Samsung will handle 3 different App Platforms on one TV
Posted on 29. Dec, 2010 by Chuck Freedman.
At CES 2010, Samsung announced it would feature Yahoo! Connect TV widgets on it’s new TV models. Then, in August they announced their own SDK for app development on their native Internet@TV platform. In October, in conjunction with Adobe MAX, Samsung was announced as the first brand to support Adobe AIR for TV apps built [...]
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Just caught this Xbox Kinect commercial for the new Kinectimals game, where we see kids easily controlling mirrored animals on screen via the Kinect. The commercial and message is all about YOU being the controller. It’s brilliant and speaks directly to the simplistic evolution of TV content control in The Z Space.
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Google suggests enhancing TV web content for d-pad control
Posted on 22. Dec, 2010 by Chuck Freedman.
Google has posted some fairly comprehensive docs on preparing web content for TV — specifically GoogleTV. Deep within their Implementation Tips in a section called “keyboards and keycodes“, it is suggested that simple Javascript could be used to handle remote control events within a web page. Code is provided that shows mapping of common key [...]
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This is the space between you and the TV. We are calling it the “Z” space. It is the depth of user engagement between a user and their big screen display. Inspiration for this name came from, among a few other factors, a May 22, 2009 post by ReadWriteWeb. In “Minority Report Interfaces: Coming to [...]
