Blue Room: The Easter Bunny goes Digital
Post categories: innovation
| 12:40 UK time, Thursday, 5 April 2012
A digital easter egg on a tablet in the 91Èȱ¬ Blue Room. Photo taken with the Blue Room's OWLE camera attachment and an iPhone.
My job is demonstrating amazing technology to other staff at the 91Èȱ¬ Blue Room - and the Blue Room has been redesigned, just in time for Easter
The 91Èȱ¬ Blue Room is the 91Èȱ¬'s technology showcase, designed to raise awareness amongst 91Èȱ¬ staff on how the world of consumer technology is changing the broadcasting industry. The new room - as you can see in the photos - is closer to places you consume 91Èȱ¬ content, whether that's a living room or the front seat of a car.
People now consume 91Èȱ¬ digital content in cars as well as homes; so we have an interactive dashboard in the Blue Room
One of our main purposes is to keep us in touch with our audience; to understand how you are consuming content in a rapidly changing world of brilliant devices, services and platforms.
Some of the latest gadgets in the room are a fantastic example of this, connected television viewed in conjunction with apps on mobile devices or 'second screens', new ways of controlling the television - eg with voice and gesture. Some are great and responsive, others need more development.
With the ever decreasing gap between the consumer and professional market a new and interesting area we are currently looking at is 'new ways of capture'. Gadgets like the Steadicam for mobile devices, Kogeto for 360 shooting, and the futuristic - I feel like Luke Skywalker - 3D HD video/binoculars from Sony.
This week we're testing out 91Èȱ¬ staff's awareness of tech by hiding digital Easter eggs on a multitude of devices to see if they can hunt them out. Happy Easter!
A range of Connected TVs, showing programmes in a range of user interfaces
Lindsey Suter is a Technology Demonstrator in the 91Èȱ¬ Blue Room. You can follow .
Comment number 1.
At 6th Apr 2012, Neema Gordon wrote:Your Blue Room seems as a great place for one to be! If I happened to get in there, I will probably feel like Alice in the Wonderland:) So many new and interesting gadgets to get familiar with!Technology changed not only the broadcasting industry, but the entire market for any given product invented. You are always up to date by keeping up with the latest tendencies and that is praiseworthy, not to mention that Im still laughing over the idea for hiding the Easter eggs:) Happy Easter to all of you!
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At 10th Apr 2012, usernamefood wrote:That would be a good place to visit someday
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