Happy Friday! Welcome to Issue 23 of Rerun, your weekly digest of digital storytelling, interactive media and the future of TV curated by Axonista.
In our Top Pick this week we feature the story behind BAM, the baseball tech team building the future of TV. We also have a Rerun exclusive, an interview with Stephen McCormack, TV Producer and Co-Founder of MediaCon! Not to mention Buzzfeed TV, Facebook video, Magic Leap, Netflix Japan, hoverboards and more! Yes we said hoverboards!
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Happy Friday! Welcome to Issue 79 of Rerun by Axonista!
This week's Top Pick is all about one of our Axonista Lab Days, where we hack the future of TV!
We also look at Twitter's present, future and potential buyers, why brands needs to budget for creative on mobile, VR storytelling, the best look yet at what the Magic Leap will be, and much more!
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Happy Friday! Welcome to Issue 34 of Rerun, your weekly digest of digital storytelling, interactive media and the future of TV curated by Axonista.
This week's edition sees lots of big product releases from brands including YouTube, CNN and Twitter. Our Top Pick this week is Tim Cook's thoughts on the future of interactive TV, ahead of next week's global release of the new look Apple TV.
We also have a friendly Magic Leap AR robot, we look at Amazon's AR patent application, and see 500 stormtroopers march on the great wall of China!
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Happy Friday! Welcome to Issue 58 of Rerun by Axonista!
It was a very future-focused week, with two incredible profiles by Wired on Google's VR ambitions and on Mixed Reality startup Magic Leap. Netflix got a new competitor as Amazon announced a monthly subscription option for Amazon Prime that undercuts Netflix. NAB debuted the future of broadcasting with ATSC 3.0, which will remove the need for a set-top box. And YouTube did their first ever live 360 video stream and it was really really awkward.
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Happy Friday! Welcome to Issue 66 of Rerun by Axonista!
In this week’s Top Pick, we bring you a great NYT feature that surveys the history of Netflix and considers the disruption it has and will cause in the entertainment industry.
We also bring news of some great features being introduced on Apple TV. Esports are coming to European television through Sky and German channel SPORT1.
Elsewhere, Sky News embraces Snapchat, Disney gets more into apps and GoPro moves into software. And we’ll see some Star Wars technology come to life with Magic Leap.
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Happy Friday! Welcome to Issue 3 of Rerun, your weekly digest of digital storytelling, interactive video and VR curated by Axonista.
We hope you don't hate vertical video, because in our Top Pick this week we tell you why it's going to become even more popular. In other news, Nintendo are finally making mobile games, Barbie is listening to every word your children say, Facebook is building a metaverse and Apple are finally giving the TV some love.
And before you tuck into the main course, here's what we've been snacking on this week:
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HTC announces VR venture capital alliance with $10 billion in ‘deployable capital’
HTC leads an attention grabbing business alliance that brings together 28 virtual reality venture capital firms and $10 billion of "deployable capital." What they've labeled as the VRVCA will meet six times a year in offices in both Beijing and San Francisco.
This news might be concerning to Magic Leap, infamously known as the ultra-secretive leaders in MR, considering that this massive grab bag of VC money will likely increase accessibility into a space that is extremely capital intensive to work in.
Individuals and firms working on VR, AR, and MR technology can apply now online. We'll leave the link here for any of our readers who are getting some ideas to the tune of $10 billion. vrvca.com
