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Remember the film Field of Dreams and how the hero was told over and over again that “if you building it, they will come?” Yeah, that’s not exactly true. Just ask any hardware company. You really need more than hardware, you need a reason to use that hardware and for VR, it means very specialized content for an emerging market. Samsung realized this with its VR platform, the Gear VR. So it built the Milk VR service for its headset. I got a chance to test drive the service. It was fun, but like all VR technology, it still has a ways to go. When you put…
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Why would you come all the way to CES with a beautiful smartwatch, but not show it off? That’s a question we’ve got for LG and Audi now that Android Central has outed the company’s beautiful smartwatch. The watch was found on an Audi representative’s wrist at the event and it’s not only unique because it looks great, but because it’s running WebOS. The software certainly looks better suited to run on the device than something like Android Wear would. There isn’t much known about the LG Watch — it doesn’t even have a name yet — but the device…
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With major announcements out of the way, we spent most of CES day two (technically a third day for us here in Vegas) talking to companies and playing with gadgets available on the show floors. Many of them are super fun, while others were just a bit strange. Hands, eyes, and ears-on Napier look at close look at a variety of gadgets today, including the infamous LG G Flex 2 bendy phone announced on Monday. He says it’s a solid upgrade all-around, provided you’re into the whole curved screen thing. He also took a break from the noisy CES show floors…
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Most people will know Shazam as that app you use when you hear a song and don’t know who it’s by. In 2014, the company focused on making its app more purposeful by adding a social recommendation aspect and Rdio and Spotify integration, in which users can scroll through a feed of artists related to what they’ve Shazam-ed to discover new content. For 2015, Shazam is extending its feature to a world outside of music. Shazam CEO Rich Riley sat down with us and gave us his idea of what’s ahead for the company in this coming year. You may have already…
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