Disney Plus subscribers will be able to stream select Marvel titles in Imax’s Expanded Aspect Ratio, aka Imax Enhanced, starting Nov. 12, the company said Monday in a release. This means that about 26% more of the movie will be visible. At launch, subscribers can check out 13 Marvel titles in Imax’s Expanded Aspect Ratio: Shang-Chi …
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After scanning a circular code on a movie poster with my iPhone, a preview button popped up showing a cloud of Eternals characters hovering in the air above my desk. An app download invitation followed that. Disney’s AR tie-in to its new Marvel movie, Eternals, is an iOS-exclusive demo that aims to be for augmented reality-based movie tie-ins what virtual …
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They’re back. Smart glasses. Not the ones from Google and Snap that largely fizzled and faded from view many months and years ago. Now there’s a new pair of high-tech glasses that craves your attention: the awkwardly named Ray-Ban Stories from Facebook. Priced at $299, the Facebook Ray-Bans can shoot photos and 30-second videos, play music and podcasts, and make …
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Have you ever wondered what you look like as your favorite superhero? A new TikTok craze is seeing people turn themselves into their favorite Marvel characters, from Nick Fury to Black Widow. They’re making videos using a TikTok filter called Shapeshifting. Shapeshifting lets you morph into any character of your choice. You can make your TikTok video humorous, like one …
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was Disney Plus‘ most watched series premiere yet, Disney’s Marvel said Monday. The ranking, based on viewing from the show’s premiere Friday through Sunday, didn’t include any hard numbers for the amount of watch-time spent on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s first episode. After The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Disney Plus’ most watched opening weekends for …
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And we’re off — 2021 has officially begun in the world of consumer technology. This week brought us, virtually, both the annual bonanza that is CES and Samsung’s first Unpacked event of the year. There was no shortage of product introductions and gadget aspirations. From Samsung, for instance, we learned all about its new Galaxy S21 lineup, and all kinds …
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As a long year winds down, we could all use something to smile about. Well, for starters we have an effective coronavirus vaccine, and it’s on the way across the country, starting with the people who need it most. Developed in record time, it’s a technological breakthrough that also bodes well for future vaccines. Closer at hand for a lot …
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Marvel Realm of Champions, a real-time RPG that lets you create your own Marvel characters and have them join alliances, launched Wednesday on iOS and Android devices. The game was developed by Kabam, the maker of Marvel fighting game Contest of Champions, and tells a Secret Wars-inspired story in which alliances of superheroes fight in order to take control of …
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Disney Plus will raise its US subscription price by $1 in March, bringing it to $8 a month, Disney said Thursday as it unleashed a flood of news about its streaming services at a four-hour event. Disney laid out plans for as many as 20 new Marvel and Star Wars series, promised to let animation fans stream animated fantasy Raya and the …
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Disney said that Disney Plus will have 10 Marvel series and 10 Star Wars series “over the next few years,” as well as 15 series and 15 feature-length films that are Disney live-action, Disney animation or Pixar in the same time frame. The company also indicated that “a number of Disney and Pixar films” will be headed straight to Disney Plus instead of …
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