by Lee Rickwood
The International Olympic Committee, its Olympic Broadcast Services (OBS) production arm, and the rightsholder here in Canada, CBC/Radio Canada, plan to deliver up to 100 hours of Olympic coverage as live virtual reality (VR) and 360-degree video streams.
by Lee Rickwood
Community leaders and participatory democracy advocates in Rio hope that access to digital data and maps of surrounding neighborhoods will foster more interaction with and suggestions for city government officials.
by Lee Rickwood
The second phase for the project will source content from the public, including individual soldiers, their friends and families. It’s the kind of content to which, with rare exceptions, the rights and copyrights are held by the contributor, and from which the perspective is quite unique and very telling.
by Lee Rickwood
Conservation, even techno-enabled conservation, is not easy. But technology can be used in the fight against illegal animal poaching and the exploitation of endangered species.
by Lee Rickwood
Quantum computers have powers above and beyond silicon computers – or carbon life forms, for that matter.
by Lee Rickwood
The new CBC video player is part of an overall strategy and specific migration plan to greater digital content creation and distribution capabilities, both for pre-recorded content and eventually live programming.
by Lee Rickwood
Canadians can cheer for their favourite competitor in the future of sports later this year, when the first Cybathlon is hosted in Switzerland.
by Lee Rickwood
The festival will be housed in a portable village of dome structures, including a large immersive digital space that will host a cutting edge 360-degree documentary that’s now in production in various Canadian locations.