Nickelodeon AR Series - Meet the Voxels

Augmented Reality Going Mainstream



Deadline Hollywood

This marks Nickelodeon’s first project that will use its use of cutting-edge virtual cinema technology, including real-time full body and facial performance capture, which takes innovative and immersive storytelling to another level.

Meet the Voxels takes kids behind the scenes of a video game world and follows a family of video-game characters, the Voxels, on their adventures on-and-off-duty. The family members are:  Hunter, the 13-year-old star of a laser-tag video game; Maude, a 16-year-old girl fighting to pop as many bubbles as she can;their younger brother Cody who has not found his video game calling yet; Mom, a popular street fighter in her game; and Dad, a ’90s-era classic console game character who quit the business years ago. All the characters currently have working names. Nothing is set in stone yet as the series is still in development.

***********

“Our vision is to take the real-time technology we’ve been exploring in the Lab and marry it with a creative concept that connects with kids and their passion for video games,” said Young. “We designed this next-gen animation workflow and filled it with characters who can exist naturally across multiple platforms from day one.”

Verizon "No cord Required" Go90

The ecosystem for PicoP is improving. For a long time now, we've been watching content offerings improve for mobile devices.

That there are some details that were released too soon is interesting. Also, the AOL acquisition is for advertising.  -- and that the AOL addition helps them advertise with online content -- which could allow free or very inexpensive video entertainment through cell networks.

Traditional TV is what you build your living room around. When PicoP is widespread, it will change our indoor landscapes. Not everyone will abandon the television, but a lot of people will. (I expect it will be like the change in computers when tablets became widespread -- there are a lot of PCs, but not nearly as many as their used to be.

Inquisitr

"Some exclusive content will reportedly be available to Go90 users, similar to Netflix Originals. By offering exclusive content to its users, Verizon hopes that it can attract more cellphone customers.

Verizon has recently been working with several partners like Viacom, ESPN, DreamWorks, and others. The companies Verizon has been working with lately will most likely provide some content for Verizon’s new service."

Verizon’s Go90 service will launch by the end of summer, according to reports.

From MediaPost

While Verizon had spoken publicly about a pending video offering, a mistakenly posted pre-launch beta test site (now inaccessible) leaked details of Go90. Variety reports that the site describes the service as “live music, exclusive events, best of web content, sports, prime time and more.” Partners previously declared and listed on the now-missing site include Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, DreamWorks, Vice, ESPN, CBS Sports, Scripps and AwesomenessTV

In an interesting characterization of old media, the site calls traditional TV “an appliance you rearrange your living room around.” Go90 will be designed from the ground up as a mobile-first experience: “no cord required.” The service will include the ability to share clips from longer-form video, which the app dubs “Moments.”