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Simplifying Guided Virtual Tours for Real Estate 02 March 2023

  From time immemorial, humans have dreamt of having a dream home at some point in their life. And when the moment of buying your own house finally arrives, everyone wants to be hundred percent sure. Earlier, people used to … Continue reading

Can Artificial Intelligence End Your Video Buffering Problems? 29 June 2018

Access to high-speed data and smartphone is disrupting many industries. Interestingly, high-speed data is the single most dominant factor behind the rising content consumption pattern. Tapping into this massive content appetite, online streaming giants such as Netflix, Viu, Balaji Telefilms, … Continue reading

4K streaming, Augmented Reality, and other OTT trends in 2018 11 January 2018

The year 2017 bade adieu in style with the sensational $52 billion acquisition of Fox by Disney. While the entertainment industry is yet to get past the historical event, 2018 has come up with more promises, bigger expectations and not … Continue reading

OTT ‘2017 – A look back 29 December 2017

The year 2017 has been witness to key trends and major industry movements for the Over-the-Top (OTT) industry. Globally, we have seen staggering numbers in terms of industry growth and forecast. We saw growth of cord-cutting, live streaming and the … Continue reading

Star India to introduce Virtual Reality for IPL 2018 07 December 2017

One of India’s biggest broadcasters, Star India along with its (Over-the-Top) OTT service Hotstar, is mulling the implementation of Virtual Reality (VR), to heighten viewer experience during the 2018 season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) – one of the … Continue reading

VR consumption to grow rapidly 18 October 2017

Ericsson explored the level of consumer interest in virtual reality (VR) for the first time and analyzed its scope in media consumption. The 2017 ConsumerLab TV and Media report revealed Ericsson’s study and uncovered some fascinating findings. One-third of consumers … Continue reading

STX Entertainment eyes virtual reality project in China 09 October 2017

STX Entertainment, an independent American film, and television studio creates a new infrastructure and ecosystem for its partners to make creative and technological inputs in a virtual reality project. A subsidiary unit of STX called STXsurreal (which they had acquired … Continue reading

New VR format revealed by YouTube 26 June 2017

After it first decided to enter into the realm of immersive 360° and virtual reality (VR) viewing, YouTube plans to launch a brand new video format, VR180. The new format is the result of its parent Google’s Daydream team. VR180 … Continue reading

Unlimited length 360 Video Streaming introduced by InstaVR 14 June 2017

InstaVR will enable streaming videos of unlimited length via their VR platform and this feature will be extended to 360-degree videos as well. Although videos don’t have a size or length limit, creators only have 500GB of monthly video bandwidth … Continue reading

Facebook launches new VR App 20 April 2017

Facebook’s most interesting Virtual Reality experiment is now available for all –  Facebook Spaces. Facebook Spaces is a Virtual Reality (VR) App where you can hang out with your friends as if there are sitting next to you. The “space” in … Continue reading