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Oleg Batluk

UBC students win $180,000 playing eSport League of Legends - 0 views

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social eSport digital zombie

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  • UBC become arguably the top eSports schools in North America
  • What started as a casual club fueled by passion for the game quickly became a top competitive team in North America. Now the team’s members are being rewarded for all their practice with about $30,000 each thanks to their NACC victory
  • “I would play anywhere from 4-8 hours a day, and that’s just individual. Every weekend [the team] would play around 12 hours, six on Saturday and six on Sunday. Essentially a full-time job, I would say in my first two to three years of university I probably played 30-40 hours a week
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  • The question asked now for these high-level eSports players is the same as any athlete: what’s next
  • With eSports, you practice as a team, you have to spend just as many hours as a professional athlete.
  • ou have to play on a big stage in front of a lot of people. It’s really stressful
  • Oleg Batluk on 31 May 16
     
    Cybersportsman has to spend siginificant time of his life to be successful with the same level of stress as profeccionals from physical sports have
Oleg Batluk

Футбольный клуб «Шальке 04» приобрёл команду по League of Legends - 0 views

vc.ru/schalke-04-lol

social eSport from physical to digital

shared by Oleg Batluk on 31 May 16 - No Cached
  • Немецкий футбольный клуб «Шальке 04» объявил о приобретении киберспортивной команды Elements
  • После приобретения команда Elements сменит название и форму и с июня 2016 года будет выступать под именем Schalke 04
  • В 2015 году турецкий футбольный клуб «Бешикташ» заключил договор с командой Aces High Esports Club, которая теперь представляет спортивное объединение в турнирах по League of Legends
Oleg Batluk

Эпические боссы: кто тратит миллионы рублей в ролевых онлайн-играх | Forbes.ru - 0 views

www.forbes.ru/...illiony-rublei-v-rolevykh-onla

eSport digital zombie virtual olygargh virtual black market eDoping

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  • Был случай, когда игрок купил катану за $25 000, а потом разработчики подарили ему такую же, но уже настоящую
  • Со многими покупателями я встречаюсь лично
  • черный рынок
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  • Твоего персонажа все видят. И когда ты приходишь на тусовку, все хотят познакомиться. Это вот про это
  • На этом и зарабатывает Вейз, предлагая клиентам прокачать аккаунт за них
  • Виртуальные баталии иногда продолжаются выяснением отношений в реальной жизни.
  • Oleg Batluk on 31 May 16
     
    Virtual olygarghs transfer real llife practices into eSports investing heavily to stand out, creating clans to dominate, changing tournaments status quo, buying eDoping stuff for real money and backwards - going into real life to meet and greet or to fight
Oleg Batluk

Эпические боссы: кто тратит миллионы рублей в ролевых онлайн-играх | Forbes.ru - 0 views

www.forbes.ru/...illiony-rublei-v-rolevykh-onla

CIS eSport

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  • Крупные бизнесмены создают свои группировки, покупают танки, мечи и доспехи за безумные деньги, обрушивают курсы виртуальных валют
  • Меч, правда, не вернули, но, познакомившись с главой компании, бизнесмен отныне решал все свои игровые проблемы с ним.
  • Трудно представить, что этот дорого одетый владелец нескольких бизнесов проводит по пять-семь часов в день в роли рыцаря, руководящего кланом игроков
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  • виртуальный олигарх
  • Через два часа все в игре знали, что в ней появился «ненормальный», который может изменить их жизни не только в виртуальном пространстве, но и в реальной жизни.
  • Вокруг Георгия сразу начал образовываться новый клан, который набирал силу при его финансовой поддержке
  • Уволены были оба — выяснилось, что они не только нарушили корпоративный запрет на участие в играх компании, но и заработали миллионы рублей, продавая за реальные деньги предметы из магазина, который сами контролировали
  • Георгий выкупил у хакера тормозящую игроков программу и сдал ее руководству игры, чтобы повысить уровень безопасности.
Oleg Batluk

Digital media may be changing how you think: New study finds users focus on concrete de... - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...160508151944.htm

social digital dementia physical-digital overlap data digitalization

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  • Using digital platforms such as tablets and laptops for reading may make you more inclined to focus on concrete details rather than interpreting information more abstractly
  • wake-up call to how digital media may be affecting our likelihood of using abstract thought
  • Reading comprehension and problem solving success were affected by the type of platform used.
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  • For the abstract questions, on average, participants using the non-digital platform scored higher on inference questions with 66 percent correct, as compared to those using the digital platform, who had 48 percent correct
  • On the concrete questions, participants using the digital platform scored better with 73 percent correct, as compared to those using the non-digital platform, who had 58 percent correct
  • it's crucial to recognize the role that digitization of information might be having on this important aspect of cognition
Oleg Batluk

Retail Asia Expo 2016 - Brand-New Internet Retailing Expo Introduces Cutting-Edge Techn... - 0 views

www.thehansindia.com/...231780

CIS social AR digital retail

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  • The Expo will bring the latest and finest products, solutions and strategies to feed retailers' hunger for impressing their customers and expanding their online territories
  • internet retailing business
  • Augment Paris HQ
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  • Imagine the needs and benefits of visiting a local physical retail store being replaced by AR. Even more accurately, it aims to improve and bring a brand-new shopping experience to consumers by using a digital model of a product to simulate its existence in everyday reality
  • The Alibaba Group, one of the world's biggest online commerce companies, will be participating in RAE's brand new feature: the Internet Retailing Theatre
Oleg Batluk

Half Of Teens Are Addicted To Their Mobile Device: How To Tell If Your Child Suffers Fr... - 0 views

www.techtimes.com/...-from-smartphone-addiction.htm

CIS social digital zombie digital detox iStuck

shared by Oleg Batluk on 01 Jun 16 - No Cached
  • A poll has found that half of U.S. teens report feeling heavily dependent on their mobile devices, while more than half of parents know about such addiction of their teens
  • multitasking can harm learning and performance
  • increasing desire to “up” one’s smartphone dose
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  • Other common signs include neglecting spending time with family and friends, changes in sleep patterns (artificial light from phones damage sleep hormone signals), foregoing healthy activities such as walking and socializing, difficulties relating to other kids and people, stress on fingers and the body and behavioral issues such as delinquency.
  • digital detox specialist
Maria Gurova

ВЕДОМОСТИ - Государство заплатит кинотеатрам за показ русского кино - 2 views

www.vedomosti.ru/...inoteatram-pokaz-russkogo-kino

Theatrical State Funding Economy Political Infrustructure Development Large Adressable Market cinema local vs global content content production

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  • Государство выделит 2,2 млрд руб. до конца 2016 г. на обустройство кинозалов в малых городах с населением до 100 000 человек, сообщил министр культуры Владимир Мединский
  • Сейчас в малых городах работает около 500 кинозалов, рассказал Мединский. Он рассчитывает, что государственные субсидии помогут удвоить это количество
  • Это безвозвратные деньги, они могут быть потрачены на закупку, транспортировку и установку оборудования для кинозалов (экран, проекторы, кресла и т. д.), но не на ремонт или строительство; на каждый зал может быть потрачено не более 5 млн руб
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  • кинотеатры в течение трех лет должны отдавать под русское кино не менее 50% сеансов в среднем за квартал. По данным Фонда кино, за первые девять месяцев года все российские кинотеатры отдали под русские фильмы около 19% своих сеансов, в том числе крупные сети – около 18%.
  • По данным Фонда кино, в городах с населением менее 100 000 человек работает 707 залов. Если исключить из них кинотеатры в подмосковных городах, то в малых региональных городах открыто около 600 залов
  • Это около 15% от всех современных кинозалов в стране.
  • на 100 000 жителей России приходится менее трех кинозалов, это 42-й результат среди всех стран мира.
  • За первые девять месяцев этого года жители России и СНГ (без учета Украины) потратили на билеты в кино 36,5 млрд руб., и 16,8% из этой суммы – на российские фильмы
  • В итоге Фонду кино этой осенью удалось договориться с несколькими крупными киносетями («Люксор», «Пять звезд», «Киномакс», «Премьер-зал» и «Мираж синема») о том, что последние приложат максимальные усилия для увеличения доли русских сеансов в своих залах в следующем году до 20%
Maria Gurova

Президент России - 2 views

special.kremlin.ru/...51690

Theatrical Economy Political Protectionism content production State Funding Infrustructure Development Local vs global content Local is King

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  • В 2012 году доля российского кино [в прокате] составляла 16 процентов. Нам удалось за три года поднять её до 18 процентов
  • Это ключевой показатель эффективности отрасли. Наша цель, которую мы ставим на 2018 год, – это 25 процентов.
  • Например, ночь кино. С этого года это бесплатный показ российских кинофильмов на улицах, площадях и в парках, которые мы будем осуществлять для населения. Например, Дворцовая площадь во время Экономического форума [в Санкт-Петербурге] – несколько дней показа российского кино в живом сопровождении оркестра Мариинского театра
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  • В мае «Ленфильм» откроет свои новые производственные цеха и павильоны.
  • В конце года «Союзмультфильм» наконец‑то обретёт собственное здание, свои производственные мощности рядом с Останкино.
  • запустили программу государственных дотаций при открытии современных кинозалов, которые могут показывать премьеры, в малых городах с населением меньше 100 тысяч. Всего планируем 512 новых, современных кинозалов. В этих кинозалах в течение трёх лет будет установлена российская доля – 50 процентов
  • На эти цели в общей сложности в Фонд кино мы выделили 2,5 миллиарда рублей.
  • Удивительно, но цирки простаивают между представлениями. Там будет, соответственно, показываться 100 процентов детского кино.
  • – установили минимальную фиксированную квоту на поддержку детского кино, оно у нас было забыто в последние годы, и анимационного. В общей сложности 25 процентов.
  • Мы решили вместе с телеканалами поддерживать те сериалы, которые самим телеканалам делать невыгодно: классика литературы или дорогие исторические сериалы. Первые примеры нашего совместного производства, телеканалов и Минкультуры, – «Тихий Дон», «Бесы» по Достоевскому, «Молодая гвардия» Фадеева, «Екатерина Великая».
  • сделали список из ста лучших фильмов, которые нужно показывать нашим детям. Эти фильмы очистили от авторских прав, разместили их на сайте культура.рф, нашем портале, в бесплатном доступе, на сайте Минобрнауки
  • мы придумали, что эти фильмы будут показываться в кинотеатрах, то есть детей туда будут водить бесплатно, и кинотеатры такую свою социальную функцию выполняют. Плюс к этому они сделали короткие, по 10–15 минут лекции перед каждым фильмом, о чём и как делалось это советское кино
Maria Gurova

В Сочи появится международный кинофестиваль: Кино: Культура: Lenta.ru - 2 views

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Theatrical Local vs global content content production Political Economy

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  • Первый Сочинский международный кинофестиваль пройдет в декабре 2016-го. Презентация киносмотра прошла в Российском павильоне на Каннском фестивале
  • Организаторами фестиваля станут поэт и сценарист Любовь Балагова, а также режиссер и продюсер Мохи Кандур. Международными партнерами нового киносмотра выступают Британский киноинститут (BFI) и лондонский Raindance Film Festival
  • По словам организаторов, для проведения мероприятия будут задействованы объекты, построенные к Олимпийским играм 2014 года в Сочи. У киносмотра будет несколько конкурсных программ, включая секции короткометражного и документального кино.
Maria Gurova

The Movie Theater Of The Future Is All About Big Screens And Big Data - 2 views

www.ibtimes.com/t-big-screens-big-data-2347076

Theatrical Technology Economy infrastructure devices screen In-Theatre Experience big data Barco Escape IMAX premium format

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  • With huge-flat screen TVs becoming more affordable — and more original TV content being produced — cinemas have to step up their game to keep pace in the arms race with home theaters. That’s why theater chains are coming out with better food, reclining chairs, and more supersized screens like Imax to take full advantage of the special effects in many tentpole blockbusters.
  • The theater, which opens to the public Friday night, now has a lobby that’s part of the show (and soon, a camera-based audience data gathering tool to go with it), and a cinema equipped with the showpiece Barco Escape, which combines three screens in a U-shaped pattern that gives the viewer almost a cockpit-type perspective of the action.
  • “The Maze Runner” and its sequel, “Maze Runner: Scorch Trials,” were the first — and only — two films with scenes optimized for Barco Escape, but with dozens of Imax films coming out every year, there needs to be a much broader pipeline of content to compete with other large format
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  • there are currently 21 Barco Escape theaters in the world — 16 in the United States, two each in Europe and China, and one in Mexico.
  • The Barco Escape costs exhibitors $100,000 with an additional fee per movie.
  • Hoddick said he wants to develop three additional films this year, then eight in 2017 and then 12 a year after that
  • the plan is to have more than 100 by the end of this year, and 1,000 within three to five years. Oh, and they want an additional 1,000 just in China, soon to be the world’s biggest movie market — and one where Imax is in the process of opening hundreds of its own screens
  • Hoddick said while Barco Escape is only for 2D films at this point, he imagines it’s only a matter of time before 3D comes to the platform
  • it’s currently about 4 percent more expensive to produce a movie for Barco Escape, because the work has to happen in post-production, Hoddick said new cameras from manufacturers including Sony that can film in the 7:1 aspect ratio necessary for the medium will slash costs significantly
  • the theater will soon install a camera-based surveillance system to analyze demographics and customize which “lobby dominations” go live — think superhero trailers going up when a crew of high school kids walks in
Maria Gurova

A New Version Of Monopoly That Isn't About Getting Rich And Bankrupting Your Friends | ... - 0 views

www.fastcoexist.com/...h-and-bankrupting-your-friends

social KE entertainment learning kids game gamification community

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  • "Unlike Monopoly, the goal of Commonopoly is not the exhaustion, through monopolization, of a virtual stock of goods, but rather the expansion and preservation of a self-propelling sustainable system of recycling, production and distribution," the creators write.
  • Commonopoly, which has recently resurfaced in a couple of places online, demands that players brainstorm alternative economic systems through activities placed around the board.
  • Commonopoly also triggers another recent memory. In 2012, a team of psychologists from the University of California, Berkeley, designed several experiments to measure how wealth impacted unethical behavior.
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  • The results of the other experiments came to the controversial conclusion that those with wealthier backgrounds were more likely to cut off other drivers, lie in negotiating, or cheat.
evgeny lavrov

One Day, Google Will Deliver the Stuff You Want Before You Ask | Wired Business | Wired... - 0 views

www.wired.com/...google-ebay-ambient-commerce

Technology shopping anticipation tracking tech

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  • As personal digital assistant apps such as Google Now become widespread, so does the idea of algorithms that can not only meet but anticipate our needs
  • eBay lets you shop at only one store at a time and promises delivery “in about an hour,” while Google lets you shop at multiple stores and pick your own delivery time window.
  • customers won’t be ordering stuff from eBay anymore. Instead, they’ll let their phones do it.
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  • “Ambient commerce is about consumers turning over their trust to the machine,” Sheldon says
  • Between what these companies know about our interests, our friends, our whereabouts, our purchases, and anything else we’re willing to feed them, whether by email, Twitter, Facebook, GPS, or credit card, they probably should have a very good idea of what we want and when and where we want it.
evgeny lavrov

#slideid-151570#slideid-151570 - 1 views

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Technology 3D printing Environment

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  • architectural experiment constructed at MIT, was “3-D printed” using 6,500 live silkworms
  • The project started with experiments to see if the spinning patterns of the silkworms could be controlled by altering the environment they operated in. It turns out they could,
  • a silkworm is a sophisticated multi-material, multi-axis 3-D printer.
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  • Potential applications are varied, but include fashion and architecture, and it’s possible to imagine a system like this being deployed in the aftermath of a natural disaster to build environmentally friendly shelters for refugees
Maria Gurova

3 | This Is What It Looks Like When A School Becomes A Community Hub | Co.Exist | ideas... - 0 views

www.fastcoexist.com/...school-becomes-a-community-hub

social community public spaces CIS

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  • collaboration of architecture and design firms consisting of MKThink, Concordia, and DSK are creating what the developers call "a full service community, where the school district and city work cooperatively to improve access to learning and opportunities to all members of the community through a highly coordinated City/School partnership.”
  • The local community contributed heavily to the school design. "I’ve been doing this for 30 years, and there’s never been a project that I’m aware of that has required and gone through such an open and transparent communication process with the community,"
  • The design team drew inspiration for its "school as the center of community" project from the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ)
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  • education programs for residents of all ages--an attempt to create a healthy environment for local kids
Maria Gurova

Hand Gestures Could Make Kids Smarter | TIME.com - 0 views

healthland.time.com/...stures-could-make-kids-smarter

learning kids gestures science

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  • Using hand gestures may be important for more than just making a point; they could help children to learn.
  • Once something is learned, however, it’s a challenge to unlearn and inhibit the reflexive response. That’s why it helps to develop good habits early
  • It’s easier to learn something correctly the first time than it is to unlearn ineffective techniques and relearn better ones.
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  • During the task, some of the children instinctively used gestures — making rabbit ears when they knew shape mattered, or moving their palms from facing up to turning sideways when they were sorting by the teddy bear’s orientation — to guide themselves.
  • What’s more, she found that this effect had a stronger effect on successful performance than age — a powerful finding given that children’s skills improve rapidly with age during this stage of development.
  • The toddlers’ gestures could be interpreted as a glimpse of their brains at work, as they figure out how to exert the cognitive control necessary to complete their tasks.
  • Earlier work showed that older children were better able to learn math if taught to use gestures while doing so. And they often found the right answer physically — for example, by making movements to signify the numbers that needed to be kept together to add correctly — before finding it verbally
  • That has implications for improving the way we communicate and think, and could help to address developmental disorders associated with cognitive control issues, such as autism
Maria Gurova

Brown University creates first wireless, implanted brain-computer interface | ExtremeTech - 0 views

www.extremetech.com/...anted-brain-computer-interface

Technology science wireless implants brain-computer interface

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  • Researchers at Brown University have succeeded in creating the first wireless, implantable, rechargeable, long-term brain-computer interface. The wireless BCIs have been implanted in pigs and monkeys for over 13 months without issue, and human subjects are next.
  • Brown’s wireless BCI allows the subject to move freely, dramatically increasing the quantity and quality of data that can be gathered — instead of watching what happens when a monkey moves its arm, scientists can now analyze its brain activity during complex activity, such as foraging or social interaction
  • the device’s power consumption, which is just 100 milliwatts. For a device that might eventually find its way into humans, frugal power consumption is a key factor that will enable all-day, highly mobile usage
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  • Amusingly, though, the research paper notes that the wireless charging does cause significant warming of the device
  • While the wireless BCI isn’t approve for human use (and there’s no indication that they’re seeking approval yet), it was designed specifically so that it should be safe for human use.
Maria Gurova

Russia's War on Foreigners - By Anna Alekseyeva | Foreign Policy - 0 views

www.foreignpolicy.com/...russia_war_on_foreigners_gays

CIS social Political illegal immigration labor workforce

shared by Maria Gurova on 23 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Estimates of the number of illegal immigrants living in the country vary widely, but fall somewhere in the range of three to six million people. It is likely that around 30 percent of Moscow's immigrant population is illegal.
  • According to Russia's Federal Migration Service director, Konstantin Romodanovsky, these middlemen have created a shadow economy that amounts to almost $1 billion. As with every lucrative industry in Russia, this shadow market inevitably has ties to the government.
  • The cruelty that has become an all-too-common refrain in today's Russia stems, at least in part, from the ingrained belief in Russian exceptionalism -- the idea that Russian morality is unique and therefore beyond reproach. Originating in ancient Kievan Rus, this idea was propagated by the Orthodox Church in the Middle Ages, and was prominently displayed in the communist revolutionary claims of the 20th century.
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