July 11, 2013, Motion Tracking Developers’ Conference, San Francisco—Behrooz Abdi from Invensense the efforts and innovation needed to scale and integrate full platforms for our daily lives. The move towards motion tracking differs from simple motion sensing in requirements for accuracy and stability. The motion sensing market is growing with many more apps becoming available….
June 18, 2013, Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age, SPMTE and SCIEN conference, Stanford, CA—A panel took on the topic of gaming and entertainment over the Web. Charlie Jablonski from OnLive chaired the panel whose members were Bill Gardner from Digital Entertainment Insights, Alex Caccia from Marmalade, and Brett Durrett from IMVU. Gardner provided background…
June 12, 2013, E3, Los Angeles—IDC and App Annie presented a panel on the future of mobile and portable gaming at the conference. Louis Bedford from IDC moderated the panel and provided some background statistics. Panel members were: Bertran Schmitt from App Annie, Bill Rehbuck from Nvidia, Chris Early from Ubisoft, Kelly Malone from Microsoft,…
March 27, 2013, Game Developers Conference, San Francisco—Joost van Dreunen from SuperData Research talked about how new devices will change games. Developers who take advantage of the new platforms can take advantage of alternative business models to increase revenues and make more money. The trends in these devices are changing distribution and publication. In the…
March 27, 2013, Game Developers Conference, San Francisco – We talked with Wesley Adams and Rob Hoffman from Autodesk about their entertainment creation suite. This set of tools was developed in conjunction with some production teams to make a different approach to development and to bypass beta testing. These game development products are focused on…
October 11, 2012, TV Next Conference, Santa Clara, CA—The role of apps in TV and entertainment is growing, causing changes in all areas of the industry. A panel comprised of Eric Anderson from Samsung, Brian Glicklich from Glenn Beck TV, Tom Morgan from Net2.TV, and Kun Gao from Crunchyroll considered the issues. Mark Donnigan from…
October 10, 2012, TVNext Conference, Santa Clara, CA—A panel considered the issues relating to multi-screen and social Web co-existing with TV programs. Jeremy Toeman from Dijit Media moderated. The panel members included Jesse Redniss form USA Network, Ellen Stone form Bravo, Anne-Marie Roussel Illuminate Ventures, and Allan McLennan from the Padem Group. The challenges in…
March 6, 2012, Game Developers’ Conference, San Francisco—Jussi Laakkonen from Applifier talked about the movement from general social media over the Web to smart phones. The emergence of a most personal device is changing the nature of social media. The rationale for smart phones is to have paying customers use more functions and time on…
November 3, 2011, International Games Innovation Conference, Orange, CA–Dave Durnil from Qualcomm presented his views of ubiquitous gaming. The advances in technology and software are making game playing available to everyone at any time. Historically, digital games started with arcade machines. These machines still exist and bring in almost $800 M a year, down from…
October 5, 2011, TVNext, San Jose, CA–A panel of industry insiders, moderated by Colin Dixon from The Diffusion Group, looked at the coming issues on next generation TV. The panel consisted of Ken Morse from Cisco SVPG, Ted Grauch form Comcast Cable, Rick Dean from THX, Ryan Massie from CBS Interactive, and Brandon Lucas BET…