Red Bee Media has created a personalised Facebook app to drive viewers to season two of The Walking Dead on FOX.
The app, aimed at the Facebook fans of the show, as well as family and friends, focusses on a POV film.
The film looks at what it is like to be 'left behind' by the walking dead, and uses Facebook Connect and users' webcams to create a personalised experience. The app goes live early this month.
Recent Royal College of Art (RCA) design graduate David Hedberg's Smile TV is more than a loving homage to the good old 'campfire inside the living room.' Made from an open frame CRT monitor and equipped with a computer vision system, the unsuspecting television set turns the medium's engagement pattern on its head: instead of making you smile at on-screen silliness, you have to "smile to watch." Only when you do - and for as long as you do - will Smile TV reveal its otherwise scrambled broadcast. "This project grew out from experimenting with facial recognition and image manipulation," Hedberg explains over email.
"You don't just look at paintings anymore. A new exhibition at Tate Britain transforms visual art into a multi-sensory experience, surrounding paintings with sounds, scents, tactile sensations and tastes inspired by the artwork.
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The exciting thing this year is that we're reaching a critical mass of technology adoption for a wealth of new video and audio media experiences - media that responds dynamically to the consumer's attention, engagement and context: Responsive Media.
"Ambient Literature is a two-year collaboration between UWE Bristol, Bath Spa University and the University of Birmingham, established to investigate the locational and technological future of the book. Funded through a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the project is focused on the study of emergent forms of literature that make use of novel technologies and social practices in order to create robust and evocative experiences for readers. "
"Entale is the new podcast platform which adds pictures, maps, links, quotes and chapters to your favourite shows for a rich, interactive experience. "
"The BBC wants to make videos that change to suit whoever's watching. It's exploring the idea through a research project called Visual Perceptive Media"