Speakers: Seung Hyo ‘Ed’ Lee, Senior Manager, Samsung Rebecca Rockafellar, SVP, Product Planning and Operations – HBO Digital Products, HBO The gold rush to mobile app stores is over and competing in those oversaturated ecosystems is inefficient and difficult. The next gold mine for developers is Samsung Smart TV. With …
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SDC 2016 Session: Write Once and Run Everywhere with TOAST for Smart TV
Speaker: Cristian Valladares, Senior Engineer, Samsung Developing and maintaining multiple apps for the different smart TV platforms (Samsung legacy platform, Samsung Tizen TV, WebOS TV, and others) is cumbersome and resource intensive. Samsung’s new open source project TOAST allows you to develop a single cross-platform solution for all your TV …
Read More »SDC 2016 Session: Exploring Advanced Development for Tizen TV
Speakers: Jim DiNunzio, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Samsung Research America Sunil Ramakrishnan, Principal Engineer, Samsung Whether you want to provide consumers with a great lean-back video experience or bring them the convenience of a mobile-to-big-screen experience, the Tizen and Samsung Smart View SDKs have the tools you need. In this …
Read More »Teacher Fired For Saying “Vagina”
A substitute teacher in Michigan has been fired. The woman was in an art history class, and used the word “vagina,” while teaching a lesson about Georgia O’Keefe’s paintings. Ana Kasparian and Brett Erlich, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment …
Read More »SDC 2016 Session: The Introduction of 2016 Tizen TV
Speakers: Noam Bonnie, Partner Engineering lead, Samsung Yongjae Kim, Vice President, Samsung Electronics Get a kick start on developing for the future of TV by exploring that new enhancements for 2016 Samsung Tizen TV. In this session, you will learn how SmartHub’s 2016 UI provides new ways for partners to …
Read More »SDC 2016 Session: Introducing Vulkan for Galaxy S7
Demo Video: https://youtu.be/E_g4g2JxnJA Speakers: Jungwoo Kim, Principal Engineer, Samsung Valentyn Kulikovskyi, Pr. Engineer, Samsung Electronics Vulkan is the next generation graphics API that replaces OpenGLES. It delivers the most efficient and powerful way to develop high quality console-level visual experiences to any PC or mobile game. Samsung Mobile has brought …
Read More »SDC 2016 Session: Storytelling: From Rectangular Screen to VR
Speaker: Eric Darnell, Chief Creative Officer and Co-founder, Baobab Studios Eric Darnell Directed Antz!, Dreamworks’ first full-length animated film, and he was Director and Writer on all the Madagascar franchise films which have grossed over $2.5B in the box office. Eric will discuss the transition from feature films to VR. …
Read More »SDC 2016 Session: How to Put Magic in a Magical Product
Speaker: Moe Tanabian, Chief Design Officer, Samsung Makers leverage rapid prototyping hardware and software to make things and to iterate through product development cycles. The fast growth of IoT prototyping platforms has made it incredibly easy to quickly bring product concepts to life. In this session, you will be taken …
Read More »SDC 2016 Session: Integrating your 360 Camera with the MilkVR Service
Speakers: Andrew Dickerson, Director of Software Engineering, Samsung John Furton, Software Engineer, Samsung Do you have (or are you thinking about building) a 360 camera? Wouldn’t it be nice to write an app that directly uploads videos to MilkVR? Well, now you can since the MilkVR team opened the service …
Read More »SDC 2016 Session: Open Source Gear VR Framework (GVRF): Developing for Gear VR using Java & Android
Speakers: Rick Lau, Director, Product Development & Engineering for Mobile VR/IoT, Samsung Tom Flynn, Director, Software Engineering, Samsung Did you know that you can develop for Gear VR directly in Java for Android? You can, and it’s both powerful and easy. The GearVR Framework (GearVRf) is a Java library that …
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