FEED Issue 08

8 NEWSFEED Updates & upgrades

AUSTRALIA LAUNCHES FIRST 4K UHD SERVICE

The SportsPro OTT Summit will be held on 28 and 29 November in Madrid, Spain. The two-day long conference, hosted by SportsPro magazine, will offer 40 sessions centred on two key content streams: technology and strategy. The event includes a huge array of speakers, including representatives from Formula One, PGA Tour, Turner Sports, Olympic Channel, BT Sport, the NBA, YouTube, UEFA and Twitch. Sessions include “OTT vs Linear: new ways to package rights for multiple platforms”, “Driving fan tune- in and engagement in the OTT age”, “How eSports is conquering the mass media market”, and “Live streaming at carrying out extensive coverage and facilitating industry networking – so come and see us! For more information and registration visit: http://www. sportspro-ott.com OTT SPORTS WORLD HEADS TO MADRID the English Football League”. FEED will be at the summit,

Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel has launched the country’s first 4K UHD offering. Foxtel upgrade will be employing Harmonic’s Electra video processor for live UHD HEVC encoding, the ProStream X stream processor for scrambling and the RD9000 decoder. The Harmonic’s solution

“This is a significant technology breakthrough for Foxtel and will undeniably attract many new subscribers who are excited about the raw beauty of UHD,” said Tony Berthaud, Harmonic’s VP of Sales. “Our video processing solutions are at the heart of many UHD service offerings around the world, and we’re proud to be leading the charge for stunning video experiences.”

aims to maximise workflow efficiencies and ensure video quality at low bitrates.

MAGIC LEAP: THE GATHERING

Augmented reality company Magic Leap held L.E.A.P., its first developer conference, in Los Angeles this month. The opening keynote announced software updates for its new Magic Leap One headset and a vision for city-wide AR implementations. The new headset will feature the option to use two controllers, and starting in November will launch an Avatar chat feature that includes a multi-user virtual chat room. The company is also looking toward supporting a set of Javascript development tools called Magicscript and is working on a virtual AI assistant called Mica. Speakers included AT&T CEO John Donovan, Andy Serkis in his role as creative tech thought leader, Timoni West of the Imaginarium Studios and Robin Hunicke of Unity Technologies. The conference was split into two sections. The Design & Creative track included a talk from Weta Workshop, a round table on mixed reality design and a panel on large scale mixed reality implementations. The Technical track featured discussion on Magic Leap’s LuminOS operating system and high performance graphics optimisations.

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