The deadline to nominate your NAB Show 2017 products for the fourth annual Best of Show Awards is tomorrow, April 7th, 2017. Produced by the publishers of Digital Video and Video Edge, the Best of Show Awards is intended to honor outstanding new products exhibited at the spring NAB Show.
"Styles and Customs of the 2020s" was built by Scatter and, according to the museum, "presents a digital dystopia inflected by rapid climate change, social unrest, and shifting global economics. Inside the VR environment, users will be transported to an ancient cave, animated by the flickering light of an age-old fire. Slowly, the cave begins to dissolve, revealing one of four scenarios from the 2020s.
"Our social media news feeds are a constant stream of the unusual. Upon logging in, you are greeted with the most provocative and extreme events of the day. What goes viral is what most deviates from expectations. Constant social media consumption barrages us with the unusual, skewing our sense of normality and detaching it from reality."
Alain Nochimowski examines the effect that big data and VR/360-degree content will have on television: "The TV viewer experience is changing rapidly, and operators are being called to deliver higher resolution video, on a variety of devices, as well as explore next-generation technologies like VR. As the TV experience becomes more immersive in nature, operators will have a massive amount of data at their fingertips."
