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Can the iPhone 11 Pro replace a professional video camera?

The iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro come with awesome cameras on the back, and their pictures have already impressed us in our camera tests in San Francisco and Scotland. I’ve even gone so far as to call the iPhone 11 Pro a DSLR replacement in some shots. But what about for video?  To find …

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Netflix will release 3 movies in theaters before you can stream them

In an about-face, Netflix said it would put three Oscar-bait films in cinemas for an exclusive period. For years, the company has insisted that its movies stream online the same day they screen in theaters, but that’s now changing. Roma, a black-and-white drama by Alfonso Cuarón that’s being hailed at film festivals as a masterpiece, will have the longest period …

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DJI Mavic 2 Enterprise adds modular accessories, enhanced security to a folding drone

DJI might be best known for its camera drones, but it also makes enterprise drones like the Matrice M200 made for dangerous jobs like search and rescue and bridge and power line inspection and other tasks like agriculture monitoring and land surveying.  For the new Mavic 2 Enterprise, DJI marries the design, long-range data transmission and flight autonomy features of …

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With 5G, you won’t just be watching video. It’ll be watching you, too

Remember the last time you felt terrified during a horror movie? Take that moment, and all the suspense leading up to it, and imagine it individually calibrated for you. It’s a terror plot morphing in real time, adjusting the story to your level of attention to lull you into a comfort zone before unleashing a personally timed jumpscare. Or maybe …

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Virtual reality’s fragile magic ingredient

One moment I’m in a room full of people, the next I’m in the sun-scorched Australian Outback. But it takes more than the fancy graphics of the Samsung Gear VR virtual-reality headset I’ve just lowered over my head to convince me I’m really hanging out with aborigines. What it takes, says Richard Marks of Sony’s VR arm, PlayStation Magic Lab, …

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What films? Sundance crowd can’t wait to try virtual reality

The place: Park City, Utah. The scene: the Sundance Film Festival. Snow crunches underfoot as film industry figures, filmmakers and filmgoers hurry through the cold to catch the first glimpse of the coolest movies of 2016. But in the new year, some of the most talked-about Sundance happenings aren’t films at all. At the annual festival, which takes place in …

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Virtual reality let me paint in space, and it was pure magic

I’ve just walked half a mile up a mountain in the snow, but that’s not what’s taken my breath away. That honour belongs to Quill, a new virtual-reality tool from Oculus that allows you to paint in the air around you simply by waving your hands. It’s one of many cool and clever virtual-reality developments here at the 2016 Sundance …

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Samsung to open VR movie studio in New York: ‘We love stories’

Lights, camera, Samsung! The company behind the Gear VR virtual reality headset is opening a New York studio to produce new immersive experiences. Samsung announced the news here at the Sundance film festival in Park City, Utah, where virtual reality is emerging as a prominent theme. The Korean company isn’t saying any more about the new VR production studio at …

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How Amazon is betting on big names, fresh talent and ‘beautiful storytelling’ in Netflix battle

From “House of Cards” to “Transparent”, some of today’s best TV isn’t on TV at all. We caught up with Helen Cowley, senior manager at Amazon Instant Video, to find out how online streaming gives big names and fresh talent an opportunity to do something different, and find out why Amazon wants you to help choose its next big hit. …

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