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Amazon announce their own Email service
Sony partner with Spotify and kill Music Unlimited in the process
Immersis, or a shared virtual reality experience

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:00 AM PST

Amazon keep trying to up their game and compete with the giants anywhere they can, and their next step in this war is launching their very own Email service.

Amazon will experiment with anything: phones, tablets, gadgets, streaming services, subscriptions, and now even their own Email service based on their cloud technology and IT skills. The company announced their latest addition today, and dubbed it WorkMail. The Wall Street Journal claims WorkMail is not an afterthought but a serious attempt by Amazon to compete with Microsoft’s services or Gmail. WorkMail won’t be free, at $4 USD per inbox per month, and can be used through any Email client the user picks, yet this price is the price of security

The WSJ reports that Amazon will encrypt their messages on WorkMail, whit companies’ administrators managing the keys required to bypass the inscription and read the message. Furthermore, WorkMail users can also make sure no one outside of a specific geographic region, country or county can read any of their Emails. While this might seem like going overboard, we’re sure European countries where borders are more lax but just as important when it comes to business will appreciate it.

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Sony partner with Spotify and kill Music Unlimited in the process

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 02:14 PM PST

In a twist that is not surprising at all Sony has decided to partner with Spotify to create PlayStation Music, eliminating the need for Music Unlimited in the process.

PlayStation Music is a new service announced by Sony and Spotify that will allow gamers to do something else with their consoles whenever they’re taking a break: to access the endless supply of music in Spotify’s library of tunes. And because of this, Sony realized there was no point in Music Unlimited existing anymore, so their support will end the 29th of March, right on time for Spotify to finish the new program.

Music Unlimited used to be Sony’s on-demand service, and it launched as Qriocity in 2010. While it was supported in 19 countries, the service was unavailable in many others that had local versions of Sony’s offerings and services. It seems that the service was more of a hassle for Sony, who now seem happy to get rid of it and hand the responsibility off to a third party, like many other companies outside of the video game field have done.

PlayStation Music will let users access and manage their Spotify playlists and songs from the consoles, and link both Spotify and PSN accounts even letting users pay for Spotify via their PSN wallets. The service will be available for all of Sony’s home consoles (PS3 & PS4) but not for the portable PS Vita. The idea is to let users listen to music while they play their favorite games.

Current Music Unlimited users will receive the next month for free as well as a free Spotify trial once the new app launches. All in all, the service will be available in: Andorra, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, UK and USA.

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Immersis, or a shared virtual reality experience

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 10:32 AM PST

The company Catopsys has a new trick under it’s sleeve, and it’s called Immersis. With it they plan to enter the virtual reality race and take everyone head on.

Ever since the Oculus Rift became mainstream (well, sort of), companies started making great strides in the field of virtual reality as no one wanted to be left behind: there were Samsung with the Gear VR, or Sony with Project Morpheus, for example. Yet, all of these ideas were based around the same premise: a headset a user can put on to enjoy an individual experience.

This is the idea Catopsys wanted to challenge – the French-American company switched the concept around, and created a projector with a fisheye lens that can immerse (hence its name) the users inside a virtual reality world of their choosing. If it sounds similar to Microsoft’s Illumiroom, it’s because the idea is basically the same: to project a world around us, and turn the walls into our “headset”.

As of now, Immersis can currently be used with all kind of computers, but not cellphones or video game consoles (consoles use proprietary formats and codecs). It’s capable of a 1920×1080 resolution, with a 180º horizontal field of view and 120º vertical. It can connect via both HDMI and DVI, and comes with an SDK so users can create and adapt material to this platform.

Catopsys are currently trying to crowdfund Immersis via Kickstarter, and although they’ve already reached the initial goal, there are still many interesting stretch goals that might be worth researching for tech geeks. The first few Immersis sets will come out in October.

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