Recording super slow motion video at high resolution has always been expensive, requiring specialist equipment and the results can be of low, jittery quality at more than 240fps. Using machine learning models like Google Research’s Frame Interpolation for Large Motion (FILM and the Amazon SageMaker cloud service, a new system from AWS “analyses motions between input […]
Streaming, the pandemic and inflation have shrunk cinema audiences and holed the traditional business model below the waterline. How can operators prevent the industry from sinking? In 2023, apart from Barbie, and Oppenheimer, nothing much got us off our sofas in sufficient numbers. Maybe it’s not the films themselves we should be focusing on? From executive […]
One for the teenagers and anybody interested in how and where television graphics as we know it today began In the mid to late 1970s, three companies were fighting for dominance in the market to sell ever more sophisticated graphics generation and manipulation systems to broadcasters around the world. The US was a big focus […]
With the launch of the Vision Pro ($3,499 in the US, no UK pricing yet),, with its gestural control, “superior eye tracking” and “infinite desktop“, early on, Apple appears to be targeting the business community more than consumers. The hope and expectation is that the device and platform, with an ecosystem of apps, will be […]
On the morning of Super Bowl Sunday, there’s only one ball sport to be talking about, and that’s basketball They have had to wait eight years for the technology to catch up, but at the NBA’s 2024 All-Star weekend at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, the Celebrity Game (Friday 16 February) and the Saturday […]
Madison Square Garden Entertainment’s plans to build a Vegas-like sphere to the East of the Olympic Park in Stratford have been withdrawn by the company after it emerged that London mayor Sadiq Khan strongly opposed the project. In December, Levelling-up Secretary Michael Gove offered a lifeline, saying had already issued an “Article 31 direction” and […]