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NTU Scientist Invents Pocket Living Room TV
Social Cloud TV is a multi-screen mobile social TV experience that enables users to have video and chat sessions on any number of connected mobile devices.
Credit: Nanyang Technological University
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) researchers have developed Social Cloud TV, which they say is a multi-screen mobile social TV experience that enables users to have video and chat sessions on any number of connected mobile devices.
NTU professor Wen Yonggang says Social Cloud TV is the next frontier of TV experience because it enables users to "bring the social experience of watching television in the living room wherever they go."
The system leverages a cloud backend for media processing, which allows the same video to be streamed into devices in the most suitable format. Users viewing a specific TV program can invite family and friends to join the session, either from the phone book or the social networking contacts list.
The researchers say their human-computer interaction technology enables any TV show to be brought to mobile devices seamlessly and migrated across multiple screens. "You could watch a video with your classmates on the computer, and just before you leave school, ‘pull’ the show into your tablet and continue watching on the go," Yonggang says.
The system's software also enables users to share their own content, such as online videos, with others via social networks.
From Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
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