Talking glasses-free 3D, social media at CES
Posted January 11, 2013 9:55 am.
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LAS VEGAS (NEWS1130) – Glasses or no glasses when it comes to 3D TV? That’s a big question at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.
“For us, it’s absolutely no glasses,” says Bud Robertson with Stream TV. “The future is a glasses-free 3D.”
“Entry on 3D… the adoption has been slow. We think a great part of that is the need to have special equipment. You don’t see the world in 3D with glasses; why should you have to do it at home?”
What are people telling him when they see how 3D works without glasses?
“When their jaws have stopped dropping to the floor and they see the quality of it, they say, ‘Wow, we thought this was years away. I can’t believe it’s here.'”
A look at social media at CES
You can find just about everything related to technology and the digital world at CES; News1130 caught up with Brian Page with Living in Digital Times (and one of the organizers of the Mobile Apps Showdown) at CES to talk about social media.
“I would say this year, we’ve seen a move away from your standalone social media apps,” predicts Page.
“No longer is just tweeting out something or just Instagramming something enough. A bunch of our apps here have added the social media layer to voice conferencing, video conferencing [and even] games — turn-by-turn picture games — that allow you, at the end, to push off to Instagram [or] Twitter. No longer is enough just to tweet. There has to be a component to it,” he explains.
He says more tweets will have content attached to them. “I would say it’s very 2012 just to tweet something.”
“We’re now in 2013 and tweeting and just posting things to Facebook isn’t enough; people want a more visual, audio, and video experience, along with professional apps that have integrated social media to the point where it’s now one-stop-shopping.”
Follow @BruceClaggett through his week in Las Vegas for the 2013 CES. Check out our live blog and join the conversation by using the Twitter hashtag #1130CES.
