Podcasts about Lytro

"Empathy transformed how I engage with stories and people." Host: Michael Dargie, THEREBELREBELPODCAST.COM Guest: Adam Jennings, ADAMJENNINGS.COM In this episode of our podcast, host Michael Dargie engages in a deep dive with Adam Jennings, a seasoned creative professional with a rich background spanning theatre, video games, and digital marketing. They explore Adam's multifaceted career, insights into creative leadership, and his innovative approach to storytelling. The conversation takes listeners from the nuances of dealing with back pain through to the complexities of creative direction in a digital world, touching upon personal growth, industry challenges, and the evolving landscape of technology and communication. Key Points & Highlights Adam's Early Career: From aspirations of stunt work to finding a calling in storytelling across various mediums. Creative Leadership: Adam discusses the transition from hands-on creative work to leadership roles and the unanticipated challenges that come with it. Innovation in Digital Advertising: Insights into Adam's work with major brands and how empathy and understanding drive successful campaigns. Cultural Sensitivity in Global Campaigns: The importance of cultural nuances and local expertise in crafting effective international marketing strategies. Personal Growth: Adam reflects on empathy, listening, and the personal journey of understanding others' perspectives. Pull Quotes "Leadership is about guiding creativity with empathy." "Creative leadership isn't just about the craft; it's about understanding people." "Disruption in creativity comes from authentic storytelling." "Hearing each other is the first step towards genuine innovation." Links from Episode Adam Jennings on LinkedIn Adam Jennings Website Supercharged Creative Leaders Laetro *When you buy a product using a link on this page, The RebelRebel Podcast receives a portion of the revenue from your qualifying purchases as part of the Amazon Associates Program. Thank you for your support.

Jeff Barnes' career has taken him from two Amigas and a VHS deck to the world's most cutting-edge digital display screens. After discovering a love for post-production, Jeff co-founded CafeFX in the early-90s and created VFX for over 90 movies including Flubber, Armageddon, Panic Room, Pan's Labyrinth, Sin City, The Mist, and Alice in Wonderland. Jeff then oversaw DD's 3D pipeline and consulted in the industry before moving to the innovative lightfield company Lytro, where he produced the world's first 2k light field short. In this podcast, Jeff reminisces about the early days of CafeFX, revealing how the company demonstrated its abilities via a Rocketeer laserdisc, reveals the pros and cons of being based in Santa Maria, and talks about meeting directors including John Hughes, Robert Rodriguez, and Guillermo del Toro. Jeff also discusses his current work at the Light Field Lab, in which he shares one of the company's goals to make immersive Star Trek Holodeck-style experiences a reality.  

It has taken us 46 episodes of seemingly non stop film camera discussion to finally devote an entire episode to the cameras that in the late 1990s and early 2000s, many photographers thought were a fad.  That's right folks, Camerosity has gone digital!  Before anyone protests and demands their Camerosity Season Pass™ membership be refunded, enough time has passed since those early film-less cameras that the early digital cameras are now vintage themselves. In episode 46 of the Camerosity Podcast, the guys and I go all digital.  With us are callers Andrew Smith, Atabak Taghizadeh, Brian Howard, Greg McCreash, Mark Faulkner, Michael Gossett, Phil Clark, and Stephen Grasso. Anthony and Brian start things off with one of the earliest true digital cameras, the Apple QuickTake.  This 0.3 megapixel monster was first released in 1994 and came in two distinct designs, one created by Kodak and the other by Fuji.  Moving onto the Sony Mavica and it's 3.5" floppy disc storage, the rest of the gang has some familiarity of these cameras, and Anthony reminisces about his large collection of floppies. We continue to traverse the late 90s and early 2000s, going around the room recalling our first digital cameras that really made us realize that cameras which write in 1s and 0s were here to stay.  Mike discusses the differences between CCD and CMOS sensors, we dabble into digital IR photography and a couple Sony models which make disabling the visible light filter extremely simple.  Mark prefers a more difficult way though, by opening up his Panasonic Lumixes and permanently removing the filter. We cover digital mirrorless, and which mounts we all love adapting film lenses to, why some people didn't like EVFs compared to optical viewfinders, Mike heaps praise on the Nikon Z5, and we dabble into some of the more strange digital camera designs like the Pixii and Lytro. This was a loaded episode with a ton of information, so whether or not you're interested in older digital cameras, or are interested to know what a (Zoom) room full of a dozen collectors shoot when we don't feel like dealing with analog emulsion, you definitely do not want to miss this episode! As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are influenced by you!  We would love to hear from more listeners, especially those who are new to shooting film or collecting cameras.  Please don't feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and are interested in having an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don't consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining! The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you'd like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We usually record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance. For our next episode, we plan on going back to the analog realm, but now that the digital Pandora's Box has been opened, will we forever be changed?  The theme of our next episode is "cameras with a strap" meaning those which are permanently in shooting configuration, ready to fire off some exposures at a moment's notice.  What are your favorite cameras of all time, and which are the ones that someone will have to pry from your cold dead fingers, on the day you reach your expiration date!  Be sure to look out for our next show announcement.  Episode 47 will be recorded on Monday, April 17th.  We hope to see you there! This Week's Episode All hosts shoot digital, arguments on better medium are silly Anthony's intro into digital, the Apple QuickTake / Brian's Apple QuickTake 150, 100 and 200 Anthony has lots of floppies / Mark and Theo both have Sony Mavica Cameras People don't wipe card on old digicams, even birthing and wedding photos Mike shoots the Nikon E2Ns with a car lighter power cord Batteries are hard to find for pro grade equipment / Also hard to find for Leica D-Lux 2 Greg has a Sony MVC-5000 with an AC to DC adapter Theo shoots a Minolta RD-175 / Press Compact Flash Cards from the middle to avoid bent pins Difficult to get images from early digital cameras onto computers now / Early DSLRs had no latitude Innovation in form of Nikon Coolpix 995 / Early CCD vs CMOS sensors Sony DSC-505 was Anthony's first significant digital Canon Powershot S2 was Mike's first significant digital / Canon Powershot S45 and Nikon D300 were Theo's first significant digitals Nikon D3 was Paul's first significant digital APS-C is based on the named after the APS format / People love to adapt Pen-F lenses to Micro 4/3 Micro 4/3 was a ground breaking innovation / Pentax Q has insane 5.5x crop factor Some mirrorless cameras are hard to find with lenses / DSLRs vs Mirrorless Fuji has a super loyal customer base / The Panasonic Lumix LX3 is a great pocket camera Adjusting to electronic viewfinders / Mike has a Nikon Z for vintage lenses and stacks a Sony to Nikon adapter Pixii Camera as a Leica competitor Sony has had a huge head start on the others / Sony manufactured sensors for most of the brands Infrared Red conversions on digital cameras / Using a magnet on a Sony CyberShot DSC-F828 to shoot IR / Military buys lots of IR cameras Pentax K1 and K10 / Sigma Merrill and Quattro / Stephen loves his Leica Q2 Monochrome Is the “film look” really a thing? Epson RD1 / Leica M8 was Leica's first digital rangefinder camera Digital bridge cameras - Theo's prediction of next big thing / The Digicam craze Mike gets excited because he can USB charge his Z5 / AI Integrated Photography might be the future Ricoh GRIII / Mike's ultimate hybrid camera / Lytro Cameras Show Notes If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at camerosity.podcast@gmail.com. The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/ Camerosity Twitter - https://twitter.com/CamerosityPod Andrew Smith – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClXrAlbnU3gvdRrJ5gAR4mw Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/ Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

A look at exponential growth (it’s the smartphones), an update about the state of satellite streak mitigation to keep the astro photographers happy, two history lessons (hello Lytro, hello Magnum) and a ground-breaking photo of a planet. Topics: [PHOTO] Have the Smartphones Won? : Here’s an interesting animation that shows various cameras since the 1950s … Continue reading "917 Are Starlink the Good Ones?" The post 917 Are Starlink the Good Ones? appeared first on PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS FROM THE TOP FLOOR.

A look at exponential growth (it's the smartphones), an update about the state of satellite streak mitigation to keep the astro photographers happy, two history lessons (hello Lytro, hello Magnum) and a ground-breaking photo of a planet. Topics: [PHOTO] Have the Smartphones Won? : Here's an interesting animation that shows various cameras since the 1950s … Continue reading "917 Are Starlink the Good Ones?" The post 917 Are Starlink the Good Ones? appeared first on PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS FROM THE TOP FLOOR.

This week on 8111, John Berton!! John was born in the midwest. His dad was a mathematics professor and his mother was a musician. John loved movies as a kid and, through his dad, had early access to computers. He learned Fortran in high school and was fascinated by the logic of programming. John attended Denison University and studied communications and even had his own radio program. For grad school he attended Ohio State and studied computer graphics with American artist and computer art pioneer Charles Csuri. His interest in film, music, physics, and programming led him down the path that would eventually lead to working in visual effects. After grad school John went to work with Charles Csuri at his new company, Cranston/Csuri in Ohio. They made some of the first early flying logos for HBO, CBS, Cinemax, and many others. John later went to work at Mental Images in Berlin. From there he made the connection to ILM where he came to work in 1989 on Terminator 2. John's ILM credits include; T2, Men in Black, Star Trek VI, Hook, Death Becomes Her, Jurassic Park, The Mask, Casper, Star Wars: A New Hope Special Edition, Deep Rising, The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, and Men in Black 2. Since ILM, he has continued to work on films and television creating visual effects in projects including; I, Robot, Charlotte's Web, Bedtime Stories, Krrish3, Godzilla, 13 Reasons Why, and Deep Water. John taught for a while at Drexel in Philadelphia and left when he had a chance to come work at Lytro developing light-field rendering. Today John is back working in visual effects on a project for Netflix. John was my Visual Effects Supervisor on Deep Rising and The Mummy. Working on John's teams are some of my favorite memories from my time at ILM. He is absolutely brilliant, and  approaches his work with equal parts technological prowess and thoughtful artistry. It was awesome to reconnect with him and hear his amazing story. 

In this episode from February 2017, a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz and Jason Rosenthal, former Lytro CEO (now Vice President, Subscription Services, at Google) share stories and lessons learned from doing whatever they could to help their companies survive in hard times, including making and living through major pivots, selling new products before they were ready, figuring out financing with market and industry headwinds against them, and more. From their days together at LoudCloud to Jason's experience at Lytro, and beyond, a common theme emerges: a CEO's job is lonely in these moments and the hardest thing about a big pivot or change might be in finding the courage to make the decision in the first place.

Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) talks with Jonathan Heiliger (@heiligerj), General Partner at Vertex Ventures US, a boutique fund that invests early (often the first!) in enterprising founders who make it possible for new applications and services to be born. Jonathan and his partners have created $6B+ of value as founders themselves, and 'first check' backers. Jonathan co-founded Vertex US in 2015 to empower the next generation of pioneers who are passionate about solving hard problems with tech.Before Vertex US, Jonathan was General Partner at North Bridge Venture Partners, where he led investments in Lytro (acquired by Google), Periscope, Quora, and Ravel Law (acquired by LexisNexis), in addition to co-founding Coolan (acquired by Salesforce). He spent the previous five years at Facebook as Vice President of Infrastructure and Operations, leading global infrastructure, site architecture, and internal systems as the company scaled from 35 million to nearly 1 billion users.Earlier in his career, Jonathan held executive engineering roles at Walmart and Danger (acquired by Microsoft) and spent several years as Chief Operating Officer for Loudcloud/Opsware (IPO then acquired by HP for $1.6 billion). At 19, he co-founded and was Chief Technology Officer of GlobalCenter, one of the first web hosting providers and the world's first native-optical IP network, serving CNN, Netscape, Playboy, and Yahoo! as initial customers. He also founded Global Crossing's venture capital group.Today, through his role at Vertex US, Jonathan holds board seats for a number of their portfolio companies. Looking ahead, he is particularly excited about innovations that will improve how and where we live, specifically in construction and real estate.Website: Vertex Ventures USLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jheiliger/Twitter: @heiligerjEmail: jh@vertexventures.comShow Notes: Where and how Vertex Ventures US is investing How their focus has shifted since launching in the U.S. in 2015 The major changes Jonathan has observed in the VC industry over the years What helps Jonathan and Vertex stay laser focused despite the quick-paced nature of the industry Navigating fund strategy as the market changes How both Vitalize and Vertex address ownership targets How Jonathan approaches mentorship and hard conversations with founders Jonathan's angel investing and advising journey  More about the show:The Vitalize Podcast, a show by Vitalize Venture Capital (a seed-stage venture capital firm and pre-seed 300+ member angel community open to everyone), dives deep into the world of startup investing and the future of work.Hosted by Justin Gordon, the Director of Marketing at Vitalize Venture Capital, The Vitalize Podcast includes two main series. The Angel Investing series features interviews with a variety of angel investors and VCs around the world. The goal? To help develop the next generation of amazing investors. The Future of Work series takes a look at the founders and investors shaping the new world of work, including insights from our team here at Vitalize Venture Capital. More about us:Vitalize Venture Capital was formed in 2017 as a $16M seed-stage venture fund and now includes both a fund as well as an angel investing community investing in the future of work. Vitalize has offices in Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.The Vitalize Team:Gale - https://twitter.com/galeforceVCCaroline - https://twitter.com/carolinecasson_Justin - https://twitter.com/justingordon212Vitalize Angels, our angel investing community open to everyone:https://vitalize.vc/vitalizeangels/

Ric Fulop is the Chairman, CEO and co-founder of Desktop Metal (NYSE: DM), a leader in mass production and turnkey additive manufacturing solutions. DM is changing the game in 3D printing with printers that can print a variety of metals, carbon fibers, wood composites, and more. The convo is short and fast-paced - Ric is a really busy guy. But its rife with a ton of advice to young entrepreneurs on how to pick a market problem to solve. Lessons learned from his previous company, A123 Systems, a battery company that also went public, yielded his repeated advice: High margins, recurring revenue, low account concentration. He also references Carlota Perez, an economist at LSE, whose work talks about technological breakthroughs and how they transition from installation to deployment phases. It's really valuable stuff. We also talk about how he formed A123 by licensing a technology from MIT, how he runs DM, and much more. Enjoy! More about Ric Prior to founding Desktop Metal in October 2015, Ric was a General Partner at North Bridge, a VC fund with $3 billion under management, for five years following a fifteen- year career as an entrepreneur. Ric is the founder of six technology companies, including A123 Systems, Boston's largest IPO in the past decade and one of the world's largest automotive lithium ion suppliers with revenue exceeding $500M in 2016. At North Bridge, Ric led the software and 3D investing practices and was an early stage investor and board member in Dyn (acquired by Oracle for $600 million), Onshape, MarkForged, Salsify, Lytro and Gridco. Ric is a former Board Member of the Electric Drive Transportation Association and holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School where he was a Sloan Fellow. More about Desktop Metal Founded in 2015 by leaders in advanced manufacturing, materials science, and robotics, the company is addressing the unmet challenges of speed, cost, and quality to make metal 3D printing an essential tool for engineers and manufacturers around the world. With solutions for every stage of the manufacturing process - from prototyping and pilot runs to mass production and aftermarket parts - we are reinventing the way engineering teams produce metal and composite parts across a wide range of applications and industries. Learn more about DM on their website and follow Ric on Twitter. Join the Bountiful community today and realize your power to save the world. Don't forget to follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn if you haven't already.

In this TCP Talks episode, Justin Brodley and Jonathan Baker talk with Jonathan Heiliger, co-founder and partner at Vertex Ventures: an early-stage venture capital firm backing innovative technology entrepreneurs.  Earlier in his career, at just 19, Jonathan co-founded web hosting provider GlobalCenter and served as CTO. He went on to hold engineering roles at Walmart and Danger, Inc., the latter of which was acquired by Microsoft. He was also Vice President of Infrastructure and Operations at Facebook (now Meta), and a general partner at North Bridge Ventures. The latter firm's portfolio included Quora, Periscope, and Lytro (which has been acquired by Google.) At Vertex Ventures, Jonathan has helped cutting-edge companies like LaunchDarkly and OpsLevel revolutionize the tech space with continuous delivery and IT service management solutions. Jonathan shares his insights into the shifting market of IT services and explains why decentralizing infrastructure management can help digitally native companies operate at a faster pace. According to Jonathan, the question of IT service infrastructure isn't being adequately addressed. Without properly defining service ownership, businesses looking to scale run the risk of siloing critical knowledge, and losing track of services networks.  Jonathan also discusses his own experiences running infrastructure at Facebook (oops, Meta), the merits of both centralized and decentralized IT services management, and how he and his partners at Vertex Ventures approach new investments.   Featured Guest

In this TCP Talks episode, Justin Brodley and Jonathan Baker talk with Jonathan Heiliger, co-founder and partner at Vertex Ventures: an early-stage venture capital firm backing innovative technology entrepreneurs.  Earlier in his career, at just 19, Jonathan co-founded web hosting provider GlobalCenter and served as CTO. He went on to hold engineering roles at Walmart and Danger, Inc., the latter of which was acquired by Microsoft. He was also Vice President of Infrastructure and Operations at Facebook (now Meta), and a general partner at North Bridge Ventures. The latter firm's portfolio included Quora, Periscope, and Lytro (which has been acquired by Google.) At Vertex Ventures, Jonathan has helped cutting-edge companies like LaunchDarkly and OpsLevel revolutionize the tech space with continuous delivery and IT service management solutions. Jonathan shares his insights into the shifting market of IT services and explains why decentralizing infrastructure management can help digitally native companies operate at a faster pace. According to Jonathan, the question of IT service infrastructure isn't being adequately addressed. Without properly defining service ownership, businesses looking to scale run the risk of siloing critical knowledge, and losing track of services networks.  Jonathan also discusses his own experiences running infrastructure at Facebook (oops, Meta), the merits of both centralized and decentralized IT services management, and how he and his partners at Vertex Ventures approach new investments.   Featured Guest

You may know Chance Hales from his work with the Everyday Driver TV Show, Podcast, and YouTube channel, or from his excellent Instagram follow @phattyhales for a ton of great photos of spectacular cars in amazing locales.  With our team finally starting to get things together, we wanted to improve our non-driving related knowledge and skills as well and realized that as much as we like taking pictures and videos at the track and on the road, we have not kept up with recent advances that may improve our images.  It is also an excellent gift idea for those who may want to improve their equipment with a seasonal gift or three and is an excellent way to get a non-driving CFO to enjoy the track a bit more and feel included in your driving passion.    I think we broke Ben on this Dominating with Dawson episode where we cover the concept of “two feet in” and make sure everyone is clear with what it means and how this technique can dramatically minimize the deleterious impact of an error that may momentarily exceed your current skill level on track.    We hope you enjoy this episode!   Best regards,   Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training Podcast and Garage Heroes In Training racing team drivers   Highlights from this episode include: 1)  We start of with a quick introduction including an overview of Chance’s 1967 Mustang resto-mod and 2000 Porsche 911, his recent promotion to NASA HPDE 4, and how he grew into his current photography and videography profession, as well as Everyday Driver. 2)  Bill mentions the story of how we first met each other online and how many of you can blame the Everyday Driver team for us starting racing and this podcast.  They do apologize profusely. 3)  Vicki learns what a “cars and coffee” is for the first time.  Bill, I thought you raised her better than that. 4)  Chance and Vicki go into what camera and accessories are needed as an upgrade to using your phone or a point and shoot type camera. 5)  Chance also goes into the different types of cameras and some of the extensive jargon in a way that even Bill understood. 6)  We also go into what are some of the options and features associated with a next level but still non-professional camera set up. 7)  We go into the lenses most likely needed for shooting at a track, as well as some lenses that are awesome but cost more that most of our cars.  8)  Chance is also an excellent videographer for both the Everyday Driver TV show on the Velocity channel, their feature length movies/DVDs, as well as their YouTube channel and goes into the various choices and alternatives, including GoPro’s and several options that provide even higher quality. 9)  We did go into the details of shutter speeds and aperture settings, but in a way that most non-photographers will finally be able to understand.  The good news is that most of the cameras have an automatic setting or a simple semi-automatic setting that will work for most shots of interest at a track. 10)  Chance also gives a few resources to find the both equipment and several that have a resource that can advise you for the best options to fit what you are trying to capture. 11)  Key settings and what their approximate ranges should be include aperture, exposure, and the number of frames per second. 13)  Vicki and Chance also had several cheap and simple tips, tricks, settings, and add-ons to help protect your equipment and simplify the process by narrowing the need for manual settings and adjustments. 14)  Our first Space Balls reference ever was made by Chance and it was long overdue. 15)  Chance also helps us with several great resources for editing photos and videos. 16)  Vicki misunderstands Chance saying “raw” and thinks it’s a type of graphic file.  Bill makes a bad He Man joke. 17)  Bill has a bad flashback to when everyone used something known as “film”.  Things ae so much easier now. 18)  Chance even offers a set of standard “shots” that you should pursue at each event.  We also go into the best way to compose a shot to at least appear to be a better photographer than you really may be.  19)  Tips and tricks to shooting in the weather to protect yourself, the camera equipment, as well as some tips to getting better shots that take advantage of the conditions. 20)  Bill asks about a Leica camera, but meant to say Lytro.  Worth a look?  TBD.  We will have to ask Chance next time. 21)  Depending on your goals and budget, we are sure to have given you a few options that will improve your team’s photos. 22)  Bill and Cahcne alsoi discuss their annual “Pilgrimage Trip” to Spa and the Nürburgring.  Vicki wants a camera so Bill thought, just in case…..   You can view Chance’s portfolio work at:  https://www.chancehalesphotography.com/ The Everyday Driver home page is at:  https://www.everydaydriver.com/ Bob Chapman’s work can be found at:  http://www.autosportimage.com/  

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Dan interviews Ryan Dumonceaux and Jon Lovering of Deloitte’s Innovation Incentives team, which helps tech startups and firms access government incentives that allow them to limit risk and grow faster. Ryan and Jon have both repatriated their hometown after working in top tech ecosystems like Kanata and Silicon Valley. Ryan cut his teeth with Nortel during the late-90’s tech boom, and Jon has over a decade’s experience building hardware products for Apple, Google, Amazon, and Lytro. Ryan and Jon chat with Dan about what drew them back to their home province, and the many things they’ve learned over the years. They also talk about how smaller regions can learn from Silicon Valley and other tech hubs to apply best practices while taking advantages of the strengths your region presents.

Gadi Amit is the Founder & President of NewDealDesign, a Strategic Technology Design Studio based in San Francisco. He is the person behind some of the most innovative and market-winning products in the last two decades. Some of the most notable product designs his studio has created include the design of Fitbit, the first Lytro camera, the Google Ara modular phone and Sproutling baby monitor. In 2013, Michelle Obama presented Gadi Amit with the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for product design. Gadi Amit is passionate about creating design that is both socially responsible and generates real world success. On this episode, Gadi talks about his life, influences and his value system. He talks about his opinions on technology, design and ethics. We also talk about the design process behind Fitbit and Lytro camera. And Gadi shares his opinions on the future of wearable technology and Cyborg-ism. RELEVANT LINKS New Deal Design - https://www.newdealdesign.com Kyoorius Design Yatra - https://www.designyatra.com Tel Aviv - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv STEM studies - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,_technology,_engineering,_and_mathematics Sierra Leone - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone Hassan Fathi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Fathy Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design - http://www.bezalel.ac.il/en/ Jerusalem - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Jerusalem- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidane_Mehret_Church,_Jerusalem Bauhaus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus First Macintosh - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Classic Scitex - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scitex_Vision Rafi Holtzman - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafiholtzman/ Model Maker - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_maker Apple - https://www.apple.com (Just in case) Jony Ive - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jony_Ive Steve Jobs Biography - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs_(book) Hartmut Esslinger - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartmut_Esslinger Dieter Rams - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Rams Windows 95 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_95 Packard Bell - http://www.packardbell.com/index.html Snow White design language - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_design_language Dot-com bubble - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble Lytro Camera - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytro Light Field Technology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-field_camera Ren Ng - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_Ng Kaleidoscope - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleidoscope Tech User Testing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_research and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usability_testing Ara Phone - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ara Ara Phone design by New Deal Design - https://www.newdealdesign.com/work/google-project-ara Fitbit - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitbit and https://www.fitbit.com/in/home Pedometer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedometer Fastcompany - https://www.fastcompany.com/person/gadi-amit 2008 Financial crisis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007–2008 Linda Tischler - https://www.fastcompany.com/3058853/in-memory-of-linda-tischler National Design Awards - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Design_Awards Nuclear Football - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_football Ethics of Technology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_of_technology Machine Learning - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning Graphical user interface - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface Cyborgs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg Wearable Technology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wearable_technology Medical Assistive technology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistive_technology Implantable User-Interface by New Deal Design - https://www.newdealdesign.com/work/project-underskin Goa - https://www.lonelyplanet.com/india/goa

Comentamos el caso del atropeyo de uber, dejo enlace al video filtrado (no es gore ni de mal gusto) y al artículo de engadget: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mDxiYguNPI http://es.engadget.com/2018/03/20/hubiera-sido-dificil-evitar-atropello-coche-autonomo/ El segundo episodio de la última entrega de hitman temporalmente gratuito. Amazon Prime Video hará la serie de El señor de los anillos. 500M de dólares de presupuesto. Google interesada en la adquisición de Lytro Google Assistant ya habla español en WearOS y ya se puede pagar con NFC con los relojes WearOS en España. Amazon lanza suscripción Prime mensual por 4.99€ manteniendo la anual. Media plantilla del almacén de San Fernando de Henares en huelga por el cambio en las condiciones laborales de los trabajadores Samsung empezará a fabricar sus propios lectores de huellas dactilares en Corea del Sur.

In unserer ersten, rein Monothematischen Sendung befassen wir uns mit etwas ganz besonderem. Ws bringt uns die Fotografie in Zukunft? Viel Spass wünschen euch Sven & Bojan. Inhalte in diesem Podcast: LYTRO: Die Lichtfeld-Kamera's LIGHT: Die Kamera mit 16 Linsen  *** Social Links *** Web: http://www.fotografie-stammtisch.ch Mail: podcast@fotografie-stammtisch.ch Podcast bei iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/y8jh5vvg Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fotografiestammtisch/ Youtube: http://tinyurl.com/h77phsm Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fotostammtisch/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/fotostammtisch Flipboard Magazin: http://tinyurl.com/y9kahdqg

Listen now: Anthony Shore is one of the most experienced namers out there. He has over 25 years of experience in naming and has introduced more than 200 product and company names to the world. Some of the names he’s created include Lytro, Yum! Brands, Fitbit Ionic, Qualcomm Snapdragon, and Photoshop Lightroom. In 2015, he was featured in a New York Times Magazine article titled “The Weird Science of Naming New Products,” which tells the story of Jaunt, a VR company he named. And a BBC News article called him "one of the world’s most sought after people when it comes to naming new businesses and products." Anthony has led naming at Landor Associates. He worked at the naming firm, Lexicon, and now he runs his own agency, Operative Words, which you can find at operativewords.com. I had a great time talking to Anthony. He shares a bunch of knowledge, some great tips and examples, and we even got to nerd out a bit talking about recurrent neural networks. Anthony's using artificial intelligence to supplement his own name generation; it's fascinating to think about how tools like these might be used in the future. Anthony also gave a great overview of his naming process and provided a list of tools and resources he uses when generating names. Some namers I've talked to seem to prefer analog resources (i.e., books). In contrast, Anthony almost exclusively uses software and online tools*, including the following: Wordnik ("a great resource for lists of words") OneLook Rhymezone Sketch Engine (a corpus linguistics database) TextWrangler (a plain ASCII text editor) BBEdit Microsoft Excel Anthony and I rounded out the conversation talking some of his least favorite naming trends, as well as what he likes most about being a namer. I highly recommend you check out Anthony’s website and blog at operativewords.com, where he has a bunch of amazing content that goes into way more detail on some of the topics we discussed. Below, you'll find the full transcript of the episode (may contain typos and/or transcription errors). Click above to listen to the episode, and subscribe on iTunes to hear every episode of How Brands Are Built. * To see a complete list of online resources listed by namers in episodes of How Brands Are Built, see our Useful List: Online/software resources used by professional namers. Rob: Anthony, thank you for joining me. Anthony: Thanks so much for having me, Rob. Rob: One of the first things I wanted to ask you about is something I don’t talk to namers about that much. It’s artificial intelligence. So, I saw that you’ve written and talked about the potential for using neural networks and brand naming. Can you tell me a little bit about what made you start down that path and then maybe how it works today? Anthony: Sure. I love talking about this. Artificial intelligence, and really using computers in general as an adjunct to what I do, has always been near and dear to my heart. Way back in college, I created a self-defined AI major. And so, when recurrent neural networks started becoming available and accessible over the last few years, I took an interest. And a woman named Janelle Shane, who is a nanoscientist and a neural network hobbyist, started publishing name generation by neural network. And this really caught my interest. And she was doing it just as a hobby and for fun, but I could see that neural networks offered a great deal of promise. And so, I engaged with her and asked her to teach me what she knew, so that I could also use neural networks to help me create brand names, in addition to using the other tools that I use, like my brain and other bits of software and resources. Rob: And is there...how technical is it now in your use of it? Is it something that anyone could do or does it really require a lot of programming knowledge? Anthony: Well, right now I’d say it’s not for the faint of heart. The only interface that really helpful is through command line, really using a terminal. So it’s all ASCII. It’s done in Linux and there’s various and sundry languages that have to be brought into play like Python and Lua and Torche. Rob: So you’ve got to know what you’re doing a little bit. Anthony: Yeah yeah. It’s not something that’s just a web interface that you plug ideas in and it’s going to work like a charm. Now, that is right now and it’s changing constantly. I mean, even in just the few months, six months that I’ve been doing this, I’ve been seeing more and more neural networks front ends on the web pop up. But their results aren’t very good at all. But it’s clear that that’s going to change. Rob: And I saw that Janelle has named a beer I think using her neural network it’s called The Fine Stranger which is a cool name for an indie beer. Have you had any success using it yet for some of your naming projects? Anthony: I’ll say this: that neural networks have, in my use of them, have illustrated to me some really interesting words and ideas, and clients are interested in AI and neural networks as part of the creative process. But there haven’t been any names yet that a neural network I’ve trained has generated and the client said, "Yes, that’s going to be our name." But it’s only a matter of time before that happens. But I’m bullish on AI and neural networks. Rob: Well, it’s funny because, I know this isn’t the same thing, but every now and then, I’m sure you see this too, there are these doomsday proclamations of naming...the human aspect of naming dying out because computers will be able to do it themselves. What are your thoughts in terms of how people and computers will interact in the future to do this job? Anthony: Oh, without a doubt, accessible AI tools for name generation will increase everyone’s access to interesting names. But just because you are shown a word or a list of words doesn’t mean that you’re going to know, as someone in the company for instance, is this really going to be the right word? Does this have the potential to become a brand? And there’s other aspects of naming such as understanding and ascertaining what the right naming strategy should be. What should the right inputs that an AI should be trained on? You know, what kinds of words should the AI be trained on? Helping a client see how each word in a list of words could become their future could become their brand, and helping them to see the the assets and potential of each of these names. That’s not something AI is going to do. So there’s still a place for professional name developers. Rob: I want to back up a little bit and just talk more generally about about name generation. Can you just give me a 30,000-foot view of the entire naming process before we dive into some of the specific steps within it? Anthony: Yeah, sure, I’ll be happy to Rob. So, I’ll be briefed by the clients, and maybe they’ll provide me with an actual creative brief, or not, but from that, I’ll develop name objectives that succinctly capture what the name needs to accomplish; what it needs to support or connote. And once we agree on those marching orders, I’ll get into creative. Now the first wave of creative is a mile wide and an inch deep, where I explore many different perspectives of the brand, different tonalities, different styles of names, different executions. And that process takes about two weeks of creative development. At the end, there’s probably a thousand or several thousand words that have been developed. I’ll cull the best 150 names and run those through preliminary global trademark screening with my trademark partner, Steve Price. And from that, there’ll be 50 to 70 names, and I’ll present those names to the client. And I present them in a real-world context so they look less like hypothetical candidates and more like de facto, existing brands. And I present each name in the exact same visual context to really keep the focus on the name and not confound variables by changing up the color or the font. I present each name individually, talk about their implications and what they bring. And at the end the client gets feedback—what they like, what they don’t like, what they’re neutral about—and that informs the second round of creative work, which is an inch wide and a mile deep, where I delve into what was really working for them. And, it’s important to have a couple of rounds of creative because it’s one thing to agree in an abstract brief, but what clients really react to are real words, and that’s where you can really find out what’s going on, because it’s difficult for people to really understand what they like and don’t like in a name until they see them. And so that second round of work focuses on what’s working for them. And that process again is about two weeks, thousands of names developed, 100, 150 go into screening for trademark and domains, and then 50 names plus are presented to the client. And the client chooses from all of the names that’ve been presented across both rounds—typically over 100 names. They bring a handful of names into their full legal screening. Maybe there is cultural and linguistic checks that have to happen, and their full legal checks and then they choose one final name to run with. Rob: What steps do you take when you just start generating names? Anthony: All right, so once we all agree on what the marching orders are. The process looks like this: I’ll first bring up my go-to set of software and applications and resources that I use pretty much in parallel, and I bounce between them as I go through development. So, I’ll bring up I’ll bring up Wordnik, which is an important piece of software online, a great resource for lists of words. I use OneLook, Rhymezone, an engine called Sketch Engine, and various other applications. And I will use those to identify words, word parts, that are interesting to me. And so over the course of that development I will use different techniques in order to unearth every possible idea I can find. I will also go through prior projects that I’ve done through Operative Words, and if I find a good word for this project, I’ll search on my computer for all files that I’ve worked on that also contain that word, and so I’ll be able to mine from my prior work. And so, that creative process happens for about two weeks. At the end of two weeks I will have amassed thousands of ideas, and if I bring neural networks and software-based combinations and permutations there are literally tens-of-thousands of ideas in the picture. Rob: You mentioned Sketch Engine awhile ago as one of the online resources that you use. I’ve seen that you’ve written quite a bit about it and how you use it. But can you just briefly explain what it is and why you recommend it so highly? Anthony: Yes, Sketch Engine is a corpus linguistics database. So, let me explain that. Corpus linguistics is using a very large body of real-world language. That’s a corpus, and it’s plural is corpora. And using computers to sort of analyze and tag and organize what’s in there. So a corpus might be, for instance, the one I use is all of the news articles that have been published between 2014 and 2017. All of that real-world text—that’s 28 billion words—all of which have been tagged by part of speech, and it’s recorded all of the words that live next to all of the other words. In other words, it records what are called "colocations." Now, colocations are useful because you can learn a lot about a word by the company it keeps. So if there’s an attribute that a client is interested in, let’s say ‘fast’ or ‘smart,’ I can look up a word like "fast" or "smart" or any other related word, and discover all of the words that have been modified by it. So, therefore I can find an exhaustive list of things that are fast, things that are smart, or verbs related to things that are fast and things that are smart. And so, the benefit is, one, is exhaustiveness, two, is also linguistic naturalness. That is, you’re finding how words are used in a real-world context, and I believe that linguistic naturalness in names is very important for names being credible, for names being relatable, and for names feeling very adaptable. You’re not foisting ideas on people that make no sense. Rob: It rolls off the tongue, to use kind of the layman’s term. Anthony: Yes, that’s right. Rob: You’ve mentioned so many online tools, I’m just curious, is there anything offline that you frequent? Anthony: I’m typically watching some kind of movie or TV show or some other sort of visual stimulus while I’m doing my creative development. Rob: Interesting. Anthony: And those things provide visual stimulation and there is dialogue and other ideas that come up that provide an extra input to my creative process. Rob: Do you choose what you’re watching based on the project, or is it just whatever you happen to be watching anyway? Anthony: No, no, I do. Absolutely. So, with projects that are very technologically driven or scientifically driven, I’ll watch something that’s sort of technological or scientific. Rob: That’s fun. Do you ever just, you know, there’s been a movie that you’ve been wanting to see anyway, and you feel like, "Oh, that fits this project," and you put that on? Anthony: Yeah, absolutely. Rob: Another technique that I saw that you wrote about, it’s called an "excursion." Can you can explain what that is? Is that related to the idea of watching a movie while you’re doing naming? Anthony: In an excursion, you identify a completely unrelated product category. Sometimes the less related the better. And you look for examples of a desired attribute or quality from that category. For instance, if you’re naming a new intelligent form of AI, let’s go ahead and consider examples of intelligence from the world of kitchens. Let’s look for ideas of intelligence in the world of sports. By thinking through an attribute as it appears somewhere else, you are able to find ideas that are differentiated but relevant, because when you take a word from a different category and drop it into a relevant category, it immediately becomes relevant to that new category. People are very comfortable with this technique. Rob: I have a couple of tactical, logistics questions that I’m curious how you would respond to. What about the actual medium that you use when you’re writing down or documenting your name ideas? Do you do this in Excel or do you have a pad of paper with you while you’re doing all these other exercises, and you’re just furiously jotting down ideas? Anthony: I’m using Microsoft Word, by and large, for this. I also use another text application called TextWrangler. I use Excel when I’m charged with developing a generic descriptor for a new product. Rob: And what is TextWrangler? Is there an important difference between that and Word, or just, you happen to use both? Anthony: TextWrangler is a text editor. So, there’s no formatting whatsoever. It’s plain ASCII text. It has another sister application called BBEdit, and these applications are very useful when you’re working with pure text, and it has some terrific tools like the ability to eliminate duplicates, the ability to use pattern recognition, something called Grep, in order to find words that include certain patterns. So, very useful tool and an adjunct to the toolset that I use. Rob: And then the other logistical question is just about timing. You mentioned usually a two-week period of time for your first run at name generation, but I’ve heard other namers say they like to have a four-hour window to really immerse themselves in a project anytime they sit down to do name generation. Do you have any rules of thumb that you adhere to in terms of timing? Anthony: Over the course of two weeks, the process is, I will immerse myself completely in a project maybe for four hours, maybe for a day, maybe for two days, or three days even. And then I put it away. And then I forget about it, and I work on something else for a day or two, and then I come back to it. And so, I have this repeated process of immersion and then incubation and I repeat that in order to do creative work. That’s a process that’s been demonstrated and proven to help maximize creative output. Those "aha" moments—those Eureka moments you have in the shower—happen because you’ve been thinking about something and then stop thinking about it, consciously anyway. But meanwhile there’s something bubbling up under the surface that comes out when you least expect it. Rob: You’ve mentioned a lot of things that you could use if you get stuck on a project. Do you ever get writer’s block so to speak, and if so, is there anything that you haven’t already mentioned that you would use to kick yourself back into naming gear? Anthony: Sure. You know, the writer’s block happens when a client is looking for something that isn’t different. If their if their product or their brand doesn’t really have something new to offer, that’s a more difficult nut to crack. And so, in those cases, I will look at projects that are utterly unrelated in any way, or other kinds of lists. And in this way, I expose myself to words that have nothing to do with the project whatsoever. But, because of how I see words and how I think, I can look at a list and look at a word and go, "Oh, wait a minute. There’s a story there." I can see what would be related or that would be interesting. So, really, it’s a process of compelling me to look at words just in order to see what happens. It’s a little bit stochastic. It’s a little bit random, but it’s actually very useful and interesting and new ideas can come out of it, even for projects where there isn’t something wildly different under the surface. Rob: I like to ask whether there are any names or naming tropes that you see that you’re getting sick of. You know, like any other creative process, there are trends in the industry—startups ending with with "-ly," for example. Are there any specific name ideas or trends like that that you want to call out or that you wish would discontinue? Anthony: Well, Rob, there’re always trends that I wish would go away. In fact, any trends, by and large, I wish would go away, because they’re unoriginal and they don’t serve the brands that they represent. They look derivative. They look unoriginal. And what does that say about their company or their products? So, yes, I’m not crazy about the "-ly" trend that’s been going on, just as I wasn’t crazy about the "oo" trend that was happening after Google and Yahoo found success, just like I wasn’t crazy about the "i-" or "e-" prefix trend back when that was happening. You know, I’m just fundamentally opposed to these ideas because they don’t they don’t serve their clients and they, I think, reflect a company that isn’t truly original. I’m also not crazy about the trend to randomly drop consonants or vowels, or double them, because it’s clear that it was done just in order to secure a dotcom domain, and it feels like domain desperation. Rob: Right, it feels forced. Anthony: Exactly. And linguistic unnaturalness, where you do these things in order to shoehorn words in order to get a free dotcom, I don’t think serves a brand well either, because they’re immediately off-putting, they look unnatural, and they’re difficult to relate to. Rob: The last question I like to ask namers is just what your favorite thing is about being a namer or coming up with name ideas. Anthony: Well, I really love the process of identifying, exhaustively, every possible perspective of a new brand. If I’m looking at a list of a thousand potential names, those are a thousand different perspectives, a thousand different ways of framing you looking at this company. And those are a thousand potential futures. And then seeing when a company finally adopts a name that I’ve helped them with—to see how they adopted the name, breathe life into it, and then run with it, and do their own, get their own inspiration from the name. So, as an example, a while ago I worked with an architectural and design firm called Pollack Architecture, who needed a new name. And eventually, I worked with them and developed the name "Rapt Studio" for them, R-A-P-T, "Rapt Studio" for them. And they do brilliant interior and architecture work and branding work as well. Really brilliant and wonderful people. And so once I gave them "Rapt Studio," they ran with it and they called their employees "Raptors." I didn’t give them that idea. They have meetings once a week, which are called "Monday Rapture" meetings. All right. So, I love when a name can inspire a client with great ideas. That makes me very happy. Rob: That’s great. Well let’s leave it there. And I just want to say thank you again for your willingness to share some of your thinking and how you do what you do. Anthony: Well, thank you so much, Rob. You know, I really do this for selfish reasons because I hate ugly words, and names are an unavoidable part of our environment and our habitat, and wouldn’t you much rather be surrounded by beauty and gardens than blight? I feel that way about names and so I give away what I know, because I want other namers, even my direct competitors, to come up with with great names so that they can also populate the world with words that are interesting and creative imaginative, and words we like to have around. Rob: Well, you call it selfish but it seems selfless to me. I really appreciate it and thanks again. Let’s go make some more beautiful words out there. Anthony: Yeah, let’s do that. Thanks, Rob. Rob: Thank you.  

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News from NAB: GoPro, Blackmagic, and a very affordable camera drone. Plus our Q&A and the mirrorless photographer of the month.   On this episode #13 of the “We Shoot Mirrorless” podcast for April 2018, Marco and Scott discuss these new products and mirrorless topics:   This show is sponsored by: COSYSPEED - The fastest camera bags in the world. Marco was interviewed about street photography and his work on two other podcasts: The Traveling Image Makers - TTIM #120: http://www.ttim.photo/ttim-120-marco-larousse-and-preserving-memories/ Fotophonie Podcast (in German): https://fotophonie.de/fotophonie-109-streetfotografie-mit-marco-larousse/   Scott was also interviewed: The Traveling Image Makers - TTIM #110: http://www.ttim.photo/ttim-110-scott-bourne-bird-photography/   Marco has been interviewed and featured in an 18 page special by the German “Soul of Street” magazine: https://www.soulofstreet.de/produkt/ausgabe16-download/   Marco is also one of the 3 founding members of The German Street Photography Site: https://germanstreetphotography.com   If you want to attend a 1 on 1 street photography workshop in Hamburg, Marco now offers this option. Check it out: https://www.marcolarousse.com/street-photography-workshops/   It’s PPN’s 1st Birthday and we are giving away 3 cool photo presents to 3 PPN listeners. Listen to the episode to find out what you have to do for your chance to win one of the three prices. These are the prices:   A COSYSPEED CAMSLINGER STREETOMATIC + camera bag. A copy of Skylum Luminar 2018 image processing software. A copy of Skylum Aurora HDR 2018 software. Feedback from CP+ camera exhibition in Yokohama, Japan by our friends at DPReview: “The reign of the DSLR is almost over…”   Blackmagic has announced the Pocket Cinema Camera 4K with a 4/3 HDR sensor with dual native ISO. DCI 4K resolution at up to 60fps. It records directly to an external SSD via USB-C and has a 5” LCD touchscreen. It comes with a license to DaVinci Resolve Studio and will retail for $1300 and it’ll be available later this year. B&H: https://bhpho.to/2EFInxJ   GoPro offers a new entry-level GoPro HERO action cam. The specs of this action cam include 1440/60P and 1080/60P video recording, 10MP still photos, 2-inch touch display, voice control, electronic video stabilization, and it’s waterproof up to 10m or 30ft. The camera retails for $200. Amazon Germany: https://amzn.to/2qoJT34 B&H: https://bhpho.to/2Hw4MRp   Leica announced a Super-Vario-Elmar wide angle zoom lens 16-35mm f3.5-4.5 for the FF SL camera. B&H: https://bhpho.to/2GUoPI5   Leica is increasing prices in the US starting on May 1st, 2018.   Ryze introduced the Tello drone with DJI technology for $99. The Tello weighs 87g 2.82 oz, it flies up to 28km/h or about 17mph with a max flight time of 13 minutes with one charge. The control range max is 100m or 330ft via smartphone WiFi. It streams video at 1280 x 720 at 30P video (HD Ready) but is only transferred to the phone via WiFi. There is no SD storage on board. It flies fairly stable due to optical ground sensors that work as a visual positioning system. Amazon Germany: https://amzn.to/2qqIMQw B&H: https://bhpho.to/2HtF3Jh   Lytro is closing down. Check out the Skylum LUMINAR 2018 software: Link: http://bit.ly/2CzlC2g (use the discount code “PHOTOPODCASTS” at checkout for extra savings) Mirrorless question of the month: I'm currently using a Sony A6300 with a Tamron 18-200 lens, but I need to get a greater amount of zoom for animals & birds. There are almost no E-mount lens options, or they cost over $2,500.00. I went to my photo shop for advice or options, and they suggested going to a full frame Sony and cropping to get closer, not an option I'm interested in. I suggested maybe a Sigma 100-400mm with Canon to E-mount adapter, but the shop said focusing would be slow. I then mentioned an Olympus E-M10 Mark II (new M1 too pricey) with the Olympus 75 - 300 lens, giving me 600mm effective zoom without bulk. But the shop disagreed saying the photo quality/sharpness wouldn't be that good.; particularly zoomed in or cropped. Looking for other input or ideas, whether with Sony or something else. Or am I just out of luck? Really love the podcasts, keep up the great work! Also, I'm very happy using Luminar for my photo processing. Thanks for everything. Question by: Dale from Pennsylvania, USA We have a PPN Photo Podcast Network group at Flickr (click link) that is open to our listeners and photos taken with all mirrorless camera brands. If you want to join just let us know through the "request invitation" button on the group and drop us a quick line there. We'll add you to the group then. And please ask for the invite via the web browser and not via the Flickr App. The invite process via the app has not been working reliably. You can also submit an image using the Instagram hashtag #WeShootMirrorless   We have picked our monthly featured photographer and image from the submitted photos. Our monthly We Shoot Mirrorless feature photo and photographer of the month is: Stuart Paton - Untitled (click here). 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Réagissez à l’émission en commentaires sur techcafe.fr Discutez avec nous sur Telegram ! Soutenez Tech Café sur Patreon ! Intelligence artificielle, maturité et baguette Vague de changement chez Microsoft. Une lame de fond aux reflets Azure. La France se dote d’1,5 milliards d’euros pour promouvoir les recherches en IA. Cédric Villany est aux commandes, l’avenir des emplois en question. Samsung et Google Deepmind s’implantent en France. Google améliore (encore) la qualité de son synthétiseur vocal. L’amour du RISC : une union sacrée autour du processeur Open Source ? Google à la ferme : améliorer la productivité agricole grâce à l’Intelligence artificielle La gueule de bois de Facebook Enquête de la FTC et la NFHA. Petite révision des méthodes de ciblages publicitaires. Et sinon, pour les crèmes qui font grossir le pénis on fait quoi ? Report de l’enceinte connectée et coup d’arrêt sur les applications et chatbots. Une nouvelle fonction pour plus de clarté sur les sources des articles Mise à jour massive des API. Cambridge Analytica aurait toujours les données… de 87 (!) millions de profils. La fin justifie les moyens… ça semble bien être la culture de la boîte... Vous aussi, faites un audit de vos données sur Google ! Facebook n’aurait pas été utilisé que pendant la campagne américaine... Grindr aussi est plutôt indiscrète. Touriste ? Vos papiers identifiants s’il vous plaît. Et même si ça vous plait pas. En bref Il manquerait 8 milliards à Tesla pour éviter la faillite dans les 8 mois L’enquête avance pour éclairer le décès du conducteur de Model X Il reconstitue l’accident le malade ! La Chine autorise Baidu à tester ses voitures autonomes Le format vidéo de demain dévoile ses spécifications Lytro ferme ses portes. Google récupère les employés. Google retire Kodi de ses suggestions de recherches On connaît le prix de l’immortalité : 10 000 $. Et la mort. Palm bouge encore ? Il est en pleine forme. Comme Atari et Nokia. Cette fois c’est la bonne : Intel sortirait des Mac en 2020. Telegram amasse des TON de cash, 1.7 milliards de dollars, et c’est pas fini… Gamers réjouissez-vous ! Un ASIC pour Ethereum arrive ! Une leçon de bonnes pratiques ? Branchscope, la faille sitôt ouverte, sitôt fermée. Bonus GPP : Distorsion, l’effet Mandela et X-Files. Guillaume : la tribune des 124 médecins pour encadrer l’utilisation de l’homéopathie et les conclusions que l’on peut tirer des réactions Participants : Guillaume Poggiaspalla Présenté par Guillaume Vendé

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Folge #85 des VRODO-Podcasts beschäftigt sich mal wieder ausführlich mit dem Stand der VR-Branche. Es gibt viel Drama: Geschäftsaufgabe, Preissenkung und ein neues Produkt. Lytro gibt auf Drei Jahre lang versprach uns Lytro das ultimative Lichtfeldraumvideo, doch geliefert hat das Unternehmen ... nichts. Mehr als 200 Millionen US-Dollar Investorenkapital sammelte Lytro über die Jahre an. Dennoch war die entwickelte Technologie am Ende offenbar wertlos. Google übernahm einige der Mitarbeiter, soll aber kein Interesse daran haben, Lytros Technologie fortzuentwickeln. Was ging schief bei Lytro? Und was bedeutet das für Lichtfeldtechnologie? Alles nur Tech-Hype? Lytro gibt auf: https://vrodo.de/neue-pleite-lichtfeldunternehmen-lytro-macht-dicht/ Preissenkung für Playstation VR Inoffiziell ist Playstation VR schon seit geraumer Zeit deutlich unter Sonys Preisempfehlung zu haben. Bei Rabattaktionen gabs das Gerät zum Teil für unter 300 Euro mit Zubehör. Jetzt zieht Sony offiziell nach und senkt den Preis für das Starterpack von 399 auf 299 Euro. Im Paket enthalten sind neben der zweiten Version der VR-Brille auch die benötigte Trackingkamera sowie die VR-Demo-Sammlung "Playstation VR Worlds". PSVR wird günstiger: https://vrodo.de/playstation-vr-sony-senkt-den-preis-offiziell-auf-299-euro/ Oculus Go: Ersteindruck der neuen Facebook-Brille Auf der Game Developers Conference 2018 präsentierte Facebook die neue Oculus-Go-Brille erstmals den Fachmedien. Die ersten Eindrücke zur VR-Brille fallen positiv aus: Tolles Display, tolle Linsen, deutlich besser als Samsung Gear VR. Kritisiert wird - klar - das fehlende Tiefentracking und die Simpel-Steuerung mit Zappelcontroller. Die große Frage bleibt vorerst ungeklärt: Welche Zielgruppe wird 200 US-Dollar für Oculus Go auf den Tisch legen? Oculus Go: Guter Ersteindruck - https://vrodo.de/gdc-2018-wie-gut-ist-oculus-go-hands-on-der-autarken-vr-brille/ Meinungen der internationalen Presse: https://vrodo.de/oculus-go-erste-eindruecke-der-internationalen-presse/

Episode 266 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 -  Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, email or RSS! Featured: Photographer and filmmaker, Adam Karnacz In This Episode If you subscribe to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast in iTunes, please take a moment to rate and review us and help us move up in the rankings so others interested in photography may find us. Show Opener: Photographer and filmmaker, Adam Karnacz opens the show. Thanks Adam! Sponsors: - Get 20% off at XritePhoto.com with offer code PetaPixel20 - Get 10% off at TetherTools.com with offer code PetaPixel10 - More at LensShark.com/deals. Stories: A real estate photographer gets shot when he surprises a homeowner. (#) Lytro is shuttered. (#) An update in the photojournalist whose gear was mistaken for a gun. (#) Moment introduces an anamorphic lens and more. (#) The story behind that familiar shutter sound. (#) GoPro licenses its technology and introduces a budget HERO. (#) Outtakes My other podcast with Brian Matiash, the No Name Photo Show. Connect With Us Thank you for listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast! Connect with me, Sharky James on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (all @LensShark) as we build this community. We’d love to answer your question on the show. Leave us an audio question through our voicemail widget, comment below or via social media. But audio questions are awesome! You can also cut a show opener for us to play on the show! As an example: “Hi, this is Matt Smith with Double Heart Photography in Chicago, Illinois, and you’re listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast with Sharky James!”

During episode 223, co-hosts B.L. Ochman and David Erickson discussed bulletproof vests for kids; the growing Cambridge Analytica Scandal involves Plantir and Peter Thiele; driving a car with VR; brands on HQ Trivia; long-forms audio; Google image optimization; Google Lens comes to iOS; a Boring development; the mountain of data you gave away to Google and Facebook will blow your mind; Desperately Seeking Counsel on Craig's List; no more Lytro; a social network with no humans allowed; plus great new apps and important stats and a lot of stuff in between. Show Notes & Links: http://beyondsocialmediashow.com/223 Connect with the show on social media Subscribe to the weekly eNewsletter

Sommaire Techscope 684 : 03:00 Sommaire 10:00 Education : conférence de presse Apple 27:00 Nvidia et les voitures autonomes 32:00 Arizona suspension test Uber 39:00 Accident Tesla Model X 45:00 Tesla va mal 49:00 Facebook : rumeur assistant personnel 52:00 Lytro ferme ses portes 55:00 Fin Techscope et AMA Techscope est une émission quotidienne qui parle de technologie. C'est une revue de presse des meilleurs articles que nous retenons pour nos Flipboards. Elle est enregistrée en Live à 08h00 (heure de Paris) tous les matins de la semaine. ●♦● VOTRE ANNONCE dans Techscope : http://nowtech.tv/tag/techscope ●♦● Vous avez une annonce à faire passer dans l'émission ? Un espace vous est réservé, il suffit de remplir notre formulaire et de laisser un pourboire à votre discrétion. ●♦● ABONNEZ-VOUS à nos chaînes ●♦● ►Nowtech Live : http://bit.ly/2weGg0f Revue de presse Tech, Unboxings, reportages, Q&A etc... ►Nowtech : http://bit.ly/19lUGZZ Tests vidéo d'applications mobiles et tech. ●♦● SOUTENEZ LA CHAÎNE ●♦● ►En contribuant financièrement : https://www.tipeee.com/nowtechtv A partir de 2€/mois, vous avez accès aux lives privés et à partir de 4€/mois à notre forum privé sur Slack... ►En devenant bénévole : benevoles.nowtech@gmail.com ►D'autres façons de nous soutenir : http://nowtech.tv/soutenir-nowtechtv/ ●♦● RETROUVEZ nos précédentes émissions ●♦● ►Avec la playlist des replays de Techscope : http://bit.ly/2vwgzHF ►ARCHIVES Techscopes 001-156 et 403-518 : http://bit.ly/2qtPtlm ↓ PLUS D'INFOS ↓ ------------ Nos Flipboards --------------------------------------------------------- ►nowtech.tv : https://flipboard.com/@jkeinborg/nowtechtv-ogcbmgbby ►SHOOT : https://flipboard.com/@jkeinborg/nowtechtv-shoot-p3e5vba1y ------------ Suivez NowTech ---------------------------------------------------- ►Twitter : https://twitter.com/NowTechTV ►Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/Nowtechtv ►Site Web : http://nowtech.tv ►Discord Nowtech Gaming : http://bit.ly/discordnowtech ►►► EN LIVE tous les matins sur la Chaîne ! Nowtech, chaîne indépendante de tests d'applications mobile et de Tech, est présentée par des passionnés qui partagent leurs avis, astuces et conseils. L'idée derrière Nowtech, c'est de vous offrir des tests soignés et divertissants, pas forcément liés à l'actualité et aux nouveautés, mais avec un vrai ton « homemade ». Nous pensons fondamentalement qu'il est important, en tant que consommateurs, qu'un maximum de personnes s'expriment sur les produits et nous avons voulu apporter notre pierre à l'édifice.

  Apple: - New bezelless iPad rumored coming at WWDC. - WWDC confirmed for week of June 4th. - Wireless charging pad and wireless Airpods charging case still rumored for March release. - Apple holding education event on the 27th of March. Conveniently the day after recording. - iPhone X in Blush Gold coming? - More Watch bands.   Tech, kind of: - Autonomous cars still need work.   Google: - Google adding a new API to Maps for AR features. - Google may have bought Lytro for $40 Million. - Android P may not support apps developed for Android 4.1 or lower. - Instant Apps in Google Play. 'Try before you buy.' - Get $200 statement credit on Pixel 2 and/ or free 18 WATT charger from the Google Store until end of March. - Original Pixel XL 8.1 update is messing with the way it charges. A fix is coming soon. - Samsung has filed for a 'pull to extend' smartphone display.   Microsoft: - Microsoft is in talks with joining in on the Movies Anywhere fun. - Facebook Video platform now on Xbox One. - Pocket Casts, podcast player, now in the Microsoft Store. - You can now buy certain hardware in the Microsoft Store. - Edge is now on iPad and Android tablets.   Gaming: - New games coming to Xbox Game Pass. - Caleb and Wes are LOVING Sea of Thieves. - Indie Game Spotlight of the Week: Earth Atlantis by Pixel Perfex. - Fortnite on iOS is pretty great. - PUBG is available on iOS and Android and it's also great. - ARK: Survival Evolved launching on iOS this spring. - Shadow of the Tomb Raider coming this year. - Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 remaster rumored for this year. - Lots of new games and updates came over the past couple of weeks. - Oregon Trail handheld console available for $25 at Target. We all want one. - Hell Blade is coming to Xbox One.   Contact: podcast@callingallplatforms.com Social: Facebook Twitter YouTube Subscribe on iOS Subscribe on Android TuneIn Stitcher

Réagissez à l’émission en commentaires sur techcafe.fr Soutenez Tech Café avec Patreon ! Echangez avec nous sur Telegram ! GDC 2018 Éclairer le Futur ! DirectX 12 : Le Ray Tracing en temps réel arrive bientôt. Avec NVIDIA, c’est même maintenant, si vous avez 60 000 $. Nvidia RTX vs Radeon Rays, il y a déjà un benchmark pour ça. (Un)Real Humans, la performance capture en temps réel devient photoréaliste. VR et AR toujours tendance, et un Oculus Go qui fait bonne impression. En attendant les casques vraiment immersifs avec écrans courbes ? Après Pitfall, Pacman, les échecs, le Go, les IA s’essaient à la guerre Battlefield 1. Zéro de Conduite Sécurité (?) Routière 2.0 On en sait plus sur l’accident mortel de Tempe, c’est peu flatteur pour Uber. Avec Waymo ça serait jamais arrivé. C’est eux qui le disent... Le volant en voie de disparition ? Si c’est gratuit, t’es cuit. Scandale Cambridge Analytica : les premières class actions arrivent. Et les états s’y mettent aussi ! En Europe, les CNILS s’en mêlent. Récolte à la moissonneuse batteuse, une exception ou bien la norme ? Et vous, avez-vous joué à vous faire peur et téléchargé votre archive Facebook ? Tesla et SpaceX quittent Facebook. Elon savait pas qu’ils y étaient… On va tous mourir. Les portables donnent le cancer. Ou pas. En bref Conférence Apple éducation Le S9-gate. Qui pliera le premier ? L’iPhone pliant ou le Galaxy X ? Les revenus dématérialisés, ça compte pas pour des prunes chez Apple Sale temps pour Huawei : risques d’espionnage ou protectionnisme ? Foxconn rachète Belkin, Wemo et Linksys FOSTA/SESTA : Craiglist renonce à ses annonces matrimoniales. Et Tinder ? Du rififi chez les plateformes de vidéo : Pornhub se diversifie. Après le sexe, les armes. Sniffage de la blockchain pour la NSA Bonus GPP : Câbles magnétiques et inversible EVIISO. POD : Soyez avares Guillaume : PUBG sur mobile Des articles que nous n'avons pas pu relayer Problème de vision ? Avegant licencie la moitié de ses effectifs. Lytro ferme ses portes. Google récupère les employés. Vivendi ne menace plus Ubisoft. Mais Tencent rentre dans le capital. Tesla au bord de la faillite ? Participants : Guillaume Poggiaspalla Pierre-Olivier Dybman Présenté par Guillaume Vendé Réagissez à l’émission en commentaires sur techcafe.fr Soutenez Tech Café avec Patreon ! Echangez avec nous sur Telegram !

While Huawei failed to gain ground with any potential carrier deal in the US, it has yet to lose it, even with the government hunching over the Chinese tech company's influence. But now, the word is that Best Buy could be slipping away, big time. We'll talk about that in our second segment. Plus, Lytro is wearing a huge target on its back and all the archers just want its guts. Verizon is selling the Galaxy S9 to iPhone owners and Apple just doesn't seem to care. That and all the mobile tech news to come on this episode of the Pocketnow Weekly! Watch the YouTube live broadcast from 3pm Eastern on March 23 or check out the high-quality audio version right here. You can shoot your listener emails to podcast@pocketnow.com for a shot at getting your question read aloud on the air next week!Recording Date March 23, 2018 Hosts Juan Carlos Bagnell Jules Wang News iPhones 2018: 200 million sales, but OLED or LCD? Lytro: Google a likely candidate to buy the company OnePlus 6: Seven hundred and forty-nine dollars Foldable phones: Qualcomm says the bends are still bad Verizon: Apple doesn't enforce rules, lets carrier direct market Galaxy S9 to customers Instagram: Tweaking the algorithms for the better webOS: LG opens up the code... again...Uphill Huawei Best Buy is reported to be ending its carriage of Huawei products in the coming weeks. While the tech manufacturer says things are on the status quo for now, the company has been writhing and raging at the US government's nudging of carriers, retailers and anyone vaguely in the telecoms space to avoid doing business with it and any other Chinese firm. Why? China's a huge cybersecurity threat. Huawei, in the meantime, may end up losing ground it had built up on the retail side. Will other sellers go? Or did Best Buy get particularly incensed with that sketchy Mate 10 Pro contest that the phone maker pulled together by encouraging people to review the product before its US release? • See you soon! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Christian hat 879 Euro unter seinem Kopfkissen gefunden - einfach so. Was er damit anstellt, erzählt er in Episode #84 des VRODO-Podcasts über Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, KI und die Zukunft der Computer. Vive Pro kostet 879 Euro - wer wird das bezahlen? Besonders viele Spieler wahrscheinlich nicht. Zumindest drängt sich dieser Eindruck auf, wenn man die Meinungen in den VRODO-Kommentaren und Internetforen liest. Da kommt HTCs Preispolitik nicht gut weg und viele Käufer der ersten Stunde fühlen sich übers Ohr gehauen. HTC könnte derweil einfach nur die Marktstrategie fokussiert haben, da Endverbraucher die VR-Brille nicht in den Scharen kauften, wie womöglich erhofft. Bei Industriekunden sitzt das Geld für gewöhnlich etwas lockerer. Ist Vive Pro zu teuer oder ein cleverer Schachzug? Testberichte zu Vive Pro: https://vrodo.de/vive-pro-erste-testberichte-zu-htcs-neuer-vr-brille/ Vive Focus kommt nach Europa Die zweite große HTC-Neuigkeit in dieser Woche ist zwar nicht besonders überraschend, dafür aber endlich offiziell: Die autarke VR-Brille Vive Focus erscheint im Laufe des Jahres in Europa. In China war der Marktstart im Januar 2018. Verkaufszahlen sind nicht bekannt. Nun die große Frage: Wie schlägt sich Vive Focus gegen Oculus Go? Beide haben einen ähnlichen Markt im Visier, allerdings mit etwas unterschiedlichen Konzepten - und sehr unterschiedlichen Preisen. Welche VR-Brille hat die Nase vorne? Oder floppen einfach beide? Vive Focus kommt nach Europa: https://vrodo.de/vive-focus-veroeffentlichung-in-deutschland-noch-2018/ Googles Lichtfeld-Magie und Lytro Vergangene Woche veröffentlichte Google die Lichtfeld-Foto-Demo "Welcome to the Lightfields" die beeindruckende, räumliche Fotografien zeigt. Gerüchteweise ist Google außerdem an den Lichtfeld-Spezialisten von Lytro dran, 40 Millionen US-Dollar soll die Übernahme kosten. Was kann die Google-Demo und wie viel Potenzial steckt in der Technologie? Google will Lytro kaufen: https://vrodo.de/bericht-google-will-lichtfeldunternehmen-lytro-kaufen/ Google Lichtfeld-Demo für HTC Vive und Oculus Rift: https://vrodo.de/erlebt-lichtfeldtechnologie-mit-googles-kostenloser-demo-app/ Magic-Leap-Analyse: Was steckt im Lumin-SDK? Anfang der Woche erreichte Magic Leap einen wichtigen Meilenstein auf dem Weg zum Marktstart der Lightwear-Brille: Das Unternehmen veröffentlichte die Entwicklungsumgebung Lumin. Unser AR-Spezialist Tobias hat sich die Software genauer angesehen und schildert seinen ersten Eindruck. Magic Leap - SDK-Analyse: https://vrodo.de/magic-leap-analyse-was-verraet-das-entwicklerkit-ueber-die-ar-brille/

podcast title image from Photography Blog | Mark Goldstein On this episode, we tackle the challenges of discovering new markets and what Canon and Nikon have been doing to research and develop them. We also cover what back-up strategies you should be exploring, what Google could do with all of Lytro’s patents, and a brief [...]

podcast title image from Photography Blog | Mark Goldstein On this episode, we tackle the challenges of discovering new markets and what Canon and Nikon have been doing to research and develop them. We also cover what back-up strategies you should be exploring, what Google could do with all of Lytro’s patents, and a brief [...]

Episode 264 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 -  Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, email or RSS! Featured: Sony Artisan of Imagery, Patrick Murphy-Racey In This Episode If you subscribe to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast in iTunes, please take a moment to rate and review us and help us move up in the rankings so others interested in photography may find us. Show Opener: Sony Artisans of Imagery, Patrick Murphy-Racey opens the show. Thanks Patrick! Sponsors: - Get 20% off the new Sekonic Flashmate L-308X-U or anything at Sekonic.com with code PetaPixel20 - Get FreshBooks cloud accounting FREE for 30 DAYS by entering PetaPixel in the "How Did You Hear About Us?" section at FreshBooks.com/PetaPixel - More at LensShark.com/deals. Stories: Did the BBC go too far or are people seeing what they want to see? (#) Would you pay a magazine to get your photography on the cover? (#) Is this light modifier smoke and mirrors...or just mirrors? (#) The FAA weighs in on "doors-off" helicopter flights following crash. (#) Google may be buying Lytro and it's light field technology. (#) A little-known company announces the world's largest SSD. (#) A drone pilot in Russia flies his drone to 33,000 feet...and back in 25 minutes . (#) My other podcast with Brian Matiash, the No Name Photo Show. Connect With Us Thank you for listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast! Connect with me, Sharky James on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (all @LensShark) as we build this community. We’d love to answer your question on the show. Leave us an audio question through our voicemail widget, comment below or via social media. But audio questions are awesome! You can also cut a show opener for us to play on the show! As an example: “Hi, this is Matt Smith with Double Heart Photography in Chicago, Illinois, and you’re listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast with Sharky James!”

Facebook is rolling out changes in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica leak, Fornite is raking in the cash, and Google may be buying Lytro.

Zuckerberg speaks out about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Siri will read your hidden messages, Travis Kalanick's new gig, Facebook Messenger's new features, YouTube's increased ad load, Google gobbles Lytro, and everyone wants to work at a tech company. Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer

Salesforce is buying MuleSoft at enterprise value of $6.5 billion. http://bit.ly/qlearly120 Google is buying Lytro for about $40M. http://bit.ly/qlearly117 Travis Kalanick is buying a new company that rehabs real estate and will run it as CEO. http://bit.ly/qlearly118 WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook. http://bit.ly/qlearly119 CryptoKitties raises $12M from Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures. http://bit.ly/qlearly121 Snowden Leak Suggests NSA Is Extensively Tracking Bitcoin Users. http://bit.ly/qlearly122

Rui Ueyama さんをゲストに迎えて、CPU 脆弱性、トランスクリプト、日本語入力、ガジェット、HDR などについて話しました。 Show Notes Government shutdown 2018 Rebuild: 198: Gaming Hogehoge (drikin) Meltdown and Spectre How the industry-breaking Spectre bug stayed secret for seven months コンピュータセキュリティと様々なサイドチャネル攻撃｜Rui Ueyama Amazon: Intel Meltdown patch will slow down your AWS EC2 server Google claims its Spectre patch results in 'no degradation' to system performance Skyfall and Solace vulnerabilities Intel CES 2018 keynote: behind the scenes exclusive Mitigations landing for new class of timing attack | Mozilla Security Blog IPhone’s Rolling Shutter Captures Amazing ‘Slo-Mo’ Guitar String Vibrations Hash DoS Attack perl5180delta Rebuild Search Google Cloud Speech API Rebuild: Supporter Gboard 6.7 beta adds Chinese, Japanese support Chromecast and Google Homes reportedly overloading home Wi-Fi DNS-over-HTTPS NeverSSL - helping you get online badssl.com Heroku Postgres Google App Engine .fm TLD Chrome 63 forces .dev domains to HTTPS via preloaded HSTS Marques Brownlee (MKBHD) Google CEO Sundar Pichai says he does not regret firing James Damore Light | Camera Lytro Google Photos will limit Pixel 2 users' uploads after 2020 Amazon Echo Spot Alexa, go ahead and hand over recordings in murder case Black Mirror フィリップ・K・ディックのエレクトリック・ドリームズ Turing Complete FM

Art.com is all about helping people get art they love on their walls. According to Art.com CEO Kira Wampler “blank walls are the enemy.” Kira has been at Art.com for just over a year. She brings experience from an impressive background in leadership at customer driven startups including Lyft, Trulia, and Lytro. In this episode she shares her thoughts about knowing your customer, tech adoption, trying out different kinds of art, and the future of the retail experience.About Art.comArt.com is the largest online retailer of art. Their main goal is to help people find the art they love so they can love their spaces more. They have a billion images to choose from including limited-edition prints and hand-painted originals. They also offer home accessories and framing options.For more info visit art.com or find them on facebook, twitter, and instagram @artdotcomAbout Kira WamplerKira Wampler has been CEO of Art.com for just over a year. She brings more than 20 years of marketing and product leadership experience from her previous work at Lyft, Trulia, Lytro, and Intuit. She is a self described OG social media user and her dog was recently named the most powerful puppy in tech.You can find Kira on twitter and instagram @kiraswAbout Vango StudioVango Studio makes the entrepreneurial side of being an artist easy and efficient, saving artists an average of 4 hours per week. In addition to powering artists with an award winning marketplace, we offer artists the ability to create their own website with little to no maintenance, distribute work across platforms, and access detailed insights about their collectors and what is selling across platforms.Follow Vango on Instagram @vango and @art, and visit www.vangoart.co

In 2015 Lytro has moved on from their consumer facing business. The one thing that kept alive till now was their Living Pictures service. That is not gone to.

Episode 236 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 -  Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, email or RSS! Featured: Photographer and educator, Zach Sutton In This Episode If you subscribe to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast in iTunes, please take a moment to rate and review us and help us move up in the rankings so others interested in photography may find us. Show Opener: Photographer and educator, Zach Sutton opens the show. Thanks Zach! Sponsors: - Get 20% OFF at ElinchromUS.com with code: PetaPixel20 - Get 10% OFF the new X-Rite i1Studio and more with code PetaPixel10 at CalibrateColor.com/PetaPixel - LensShark.com/deals Stories: Some photographers bought one Sony a7R III, but received two. (#) Apple names Aurora HDR 2018 it's Mac App of the Year. (#) An artist in Canada makes a potentially costly misjudgment in an art installation. (#) Nikon wants to service your vintage gear. (#) Lytro drives another nail into the light field photo sharing coffin. (#) Outtakes My other podcast with Brian Matiash, the No Name Photo Show. Connect With Us Thank you for listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast! Connect with me, Sharky James on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (all @LensShark) as we build this community. We’d love to answer your question on the show. Leave us an audio question through our voicemail widget, comment below or via social media. But audio questions are awesome! You can also cut a show opener for us to play on the show! As an example: “Hi, this is Matt Smith with Double Heart Photography in Chicago, Illinois, and you’re listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast with Sharky James!”

It's a sad world we live in, where :frowning_pile_of_poop: doesn't automatically correct to an emoji, isn't it? Show notes and links: This link has no title (medicalxpress.com) Cinemark launches a monthly movie program to rival MoviePass (engadget.com) Lytro’s ‘living pictures’ are now dead on the web (theverge.com) How often you should wash your bed sheets, according to a microbiologist (sciencealert.com) Sad poop emoji gets flushed after row (bbc.com)

We dive into the emerging arena of “computational photography” -- where cameras capture increasingly complex data that computers process to enable imagery never before possible.   One of the most mind blowing areas of “Computational Photography” is “Light Field” imagery, which redefines much of what we took for granted about photo capture. With “Light Field” captures, we can change focus, depth of field and aperture at any point after the image has been taken.   It also enables some degree of camera angle positioning to be adjusted in post-production. Or when viewing in frameless Augmented or Virtual Reality, it enables the viewer to move side-to-side and see the angel-of-view in the environment adjust real-time with your body positioning.   The leader in “Light Field” photography is a company called Lytro.    Our guest today is Steven Swanson, the Executive Director of Content Partnerships for Lytro. Steven is active in many of the most bold, innovative media-tech projects today. Prior to Joining Lytro, Steven was a VFX Supervising Producer with Luma Pictures, one of the most prominent Hollywood VFX houses.   We explore the current state and potential of “Light Field” photography, dive into Lytro’s next-generation product the “Volume Light Tracer”, and get Steven’s insight into the evolution of immersive media.

On this week's session, I'm joined by Lon Grohs from Chaos Group in Los Angeles. You probably know Lon from his days at Neoscape, but today he's an integral member of the Chaos Group executive team — overseeing company strategy, brand, and founder of the Chaos Group Labs. On this session, we focus mainly on the six degrees of freedom in VR as well as upcoming projects that are cooking up in the Chaos Group Labs. He'll be in attendance at the SOA Academy Day this weekend, 6-7 October 2017. Here is your chance to get to know a little more about Lon before then.  Big News in VR We kick off this session with big news — Chaos Group just announced that they would be joining forces with Epic Games to make V-Ray for Unreal Engine. Lon says it's been on their radar for awhile, and now it's finally happening. The goal with this merger is to make the dream of seeing ArchViz projects in real-time a reality. Although a timeline isn't in place yet, they're working to create as many ways as possible to improve the AR and VR experience by building a bridge to the real-time engines their customers are using. Six Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) Lon also shares their plans to open up the doors to VR from three degrees to six degrees of freedom. Six degrees of freedom will give architects and their clients the ability to move around freely in their renderings. Lon calls this a “room scale” experience, and the most natural experience that you can have in a virtual space. He shares the technologies that will create the best VR experience, including Nozon and Lytro, and the differences between the two. Artist or Client — Who's Using VR? In my experience, VR is more user-friendly for the artist than it is for the client. When I asked Lon who should expect to have the most significant experience with these technologies, he told me it is for everyone. From the artists and their team to the client presentations, their goal is to create a technology that can easily be used throughout the entire project. Although still in the experimental phases of creating the six degrees of freedom in every VR experience, Lon and his partners at Chaos Group are definitely well on their way to figuring it all out. We discuss the role that architectural education had in Lon's career, upcoming projects, new technologies, and some of Lon's biggest ideas yet. A whole lot is coming down the pipeline at Chaos Group, and you can hear all about inside this session of The SpectRoom with Lon Grohs. Key Takeaways [02:30] Big News in real-time and VR [07:40] What does six degrees of freedom look and feel like? [11:18] Achieving the most natural experience you can have in a photorealistic space. [12:27] Technologies that create the best VR experience. [21:43] Using VR from project beginning to end. [26:00] Lon's work at Chaos Group. [30:17] Upcoming projects and technologies. [32:57] The role architectural education had in Lon's career. [41:18] Transitioning from Neoscape to Chaos Group. [45:26] Looking inside Chaos Group Labs. [47:38] Hiring info and how you can connect with Lon. Main Quotes “VR is an architectural superpower.”  — Lon Grohs “Showing a still image will always work.” — Ronen Bekerman “I want to see ray-traced AR in a meaningful, fast way.” — Lon Grohs “It's very easy to have too many ideas.” — Lon Grohs Software Mentions V-Ray Corona Renderer Presenz Starvr Unreal Engine Turbosquid Name Dropping Chaos Group Nozon Starbreeze Lytro Neoscape Chaos Group Labs Chaos Group Blog Chaos Group Podcast Sponsor Yulio AXYZ Design

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He serves on the boards of the following Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies: Anki, Honor, Lytro, Mori, OpenGov, Samsara and TinyCo. He is also on the boards of Facebook, Hewlett-Packard and MODE Media. This interview aired on Bloomberg Radio.

The hardest thing about pivots (major shifts in company/product direction) isn't just the actual pivot. It's the courage to make the decision... and being honest with yourself as a CEO. Especially since, no matter how great the team or board or even customers may be, it's lonely: You're the only one in the position to synthesize the knowledge; nobody else has the data and the insight put together in the same way. And sigh, "pivot" has also become such an overused word, it's certainly lost nuance, and perhaps even meaning. So what does "pivoting" a startup really mean? For decision making? Timing (or time left until you run out of cash)? Culture? Are things different for so-called “hard tech” or deep research-based startups? Finally, how do you know when things are working, that you really do have product-market fit? a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz and Lytro CEO Jason Rosenthal discuss (in conversation with Sonal Chokshi) all this and more in this episode of the a16z podcast, sharing war stories and lessons learned. Both witnessed first-hand -- and drove -- pivots: Jason watching Ben at Loudcloud/Opsware post-IPO, and conversely, Ben watching Jason at Lytro. Maybe, all startups -- and ultimately, successful companies -- are really just a series of pivots...

The hardest thing about pivots (major shifts in company/product direction) isn't just the actual pivot. It's the courage to make the decision... and being honest with yourself as a CEO. Especially since, no matter how great the team or board or even customers may be, it's lonely: You're the only one in the position to synthesize the knowledge; nobody else has the data and the insight put together in the same way. And sigh, "pivot" has also become such an overused word, it's certainly lost nuance, and perhaps even meaning. So what does "pivoting" a startup really mean? For decision making? Timing (or time left until you run out of cash)? Culture? Are things different for so-called “hard tech” or deep research-based startups? Finally, how do you know when things are working, that you really do have product-market fit? a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz and Lytro CEO Jason Rosenthal discuss (in conversation with Sonal Chokshi) all this and more in this episode of the a16z podcast, sharing war stories and lessons learned. Both witnessed first-hand -- and drove -- pivots: Jason watching Ben at Loudcloud/Opsware post-IPO, and conversely, Ben watching Jason at Lytro. Maybe, all startups -- and ultimately, successful companies -- are really just a series of pivots...

This week, A new HTC phone, Facebook's developer conference, a camera that'll kill the green screen, biotech that's improving lives, DIY braces and...is a proposed bill the end of American privacy?...All this and more this week on The Drill Down. What We're Playing With Andy: Miitomo Dwayne: SONY SEL55210 telephoto lens Alpha/NEX - BRAVIA connectivity Headlines Lytro's 755 megapixel Cinema light field camera is going to kill the green screen Tesla recalls 2,700 Model X vehicles over potentially dangerous seat flaw HTC 10 announced: a modern phone with familiar design "It's very difficult to get excited about smartphone announcements nowadays, even flagship devices," Stuart Robinson of Strategy Analytics Audible Book of the Week The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook by Ben Mezrich Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown Music Break: Welcome to My Room from Miitomo Grooves by DJ Cutman Hot Topic 'Leaked' Burr-Feinstein Encryption Bill Is a Threat to American Privacy F8 conference 2016: the biggest news from Facebook's developer event This is Facebook's gorgeous, open-source 360-degree video camera Facebook will now let any camera stream to Facebook Live, even a DJI drone Facebook's buried Save feature has 250 million users a month, and a new button to help it spread Facebook launches a bot platform for Messenger Music Break: The Final Countdown by Europe Final Word: The Cyborgs Are Coming Chip, Implanted in Brain, Helps Paralyzed Man Regain Control of Hand Just Like Human Skin, This Plastic Sheet Can Sense And Heal Here's How A College Student Created His Own Braces For Less Than $60 The Drill Down Video of the Week SpaceX successfully lands its rocket on a floating drone ship for the first time Subscribe! The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) Add us on Stitcher! The Drill Down on Facebook The Drill Down on Twitter Geeks Of Doom's The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all. Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box product manager Tosin Onafowokan.

At NAB, Lytro has announced their revolutionary new Light Field camera for film and television, the Lytro Cinema camera. John Montgomery gets the details from Lytro's Jon Karafin.

Viber vs Skype (feature comparison), MapQwuest iPhone app (turn-by-turn navigation), Profiles in IT (Ren Ng, inventor of Lytro, a light field digital camera), unsending an email (not really possible), check download speed (speedtest.net), David Burd surprise visit (connecting your TV to the Internet), Amazon cloud outage (detailing the failure), maintaining Facebook privacy (periodic Privacy Settings check advised), SQL injection attacks increase significantly (easiest method to steal passwords), and Yahoo hacked passwords analyzed (400K passwords stolen, 100K passwords not unique, 10 most popular bad passwords). This show originally aired on Saturday, July 28, 2012, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Welcome Geeks of Doom readers! The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all. You can find all our previous episodes here. This week, TDD regulars Andrew Sorcini, Dwayne DeFreitas, and Christopher Burnor discuss Fortune reporter Adam Lashinsky's Apple exposé, "Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired - and Secretive - Company Really Works", and whether the production of Apple products could ever come back to the US. Later we discuss Facebook's $5 BN IPO launch. But first, the headlines: We discuss podcast hosting service Mevio dropping most free users without notice, Next-gen XBox specs, Netflix regains most of their lost subscribers, Warner Bros. further penalizes Netflix users, Twitter allows governments to censor tweets as needed, and President Obama hangs out on Google Plus. [display_podcast] Show Links Pro Tip: Don't Pivot Your Way Into Irrelevancy Headlines Xbox 720 Will Be Six Times as Powerful as Current Gen, to debut Fall 2013 Netflix Regains 600,000 U.S. Subscribers Warner Bros. now adding restrictions to your Netflix DVD queue Twitter Now Able To Censor Tweets, If Required By Law, Per Country Thailand Welcomes Twitter Censorship Watch Live: President Obama Answers Your Questions in a Google+Hangout Audible Book of the Week Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired - and Secretive - Company Really Works by Adam Lashinsky Musical Interlude #1 Hot Topic The secrets Apple keeps Ex-Apple Employee: 'Tim Cook Could Be U.S. President' Apple's 'packaging room,' Steve Jobs's interest in Lytro cameras Apple Puts New Engineers on Fake Projects Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class Apple's universal remote concept hints at future television set Musical Interlude #2 Final Word Facebook files S-1 to IPO, Letter From Mark Zuckerberg Urges Understanding Before investment Post-IPO, Facebook will have to make privacy investigations public