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Thursday, November 20, 2014

Chrome's Upcoming Navigation Transitions API Will Make The Web Animate And Flow Like Material Design In Android

One of the things we all kind of deal with when using a web browser is a total lack of elegant transitions. Most browsers and web pages lack anything in the way of transition animations, and those that do are one-off jobs coded in things like Ajax that can be complex. Otherwise, we're left with white flashes in-between page loads and seemingly random assemblage of elements as they render. Google wants to change that, and they want to do it with something called the Navigation Transitions API.

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Target Releases Obnoxiously Named But Cool Healthful App To Manage Your Target Pharmacy Prescriptions

If you get your prescriptions filled at Target, the big-box store has just released an app on the Play Store to help you manage them much more easily. The Healthful (shudder) app lets you submit refill requests, transfer scrips to another store, and can even help you find a cheap generic for your prescribed medication. Oh, and it tracks your prescription fill status, too, so no more annoying SMSs or phone calls.

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Google Cardboard gets concert video courtesy of Paul McCartney and Jaunt

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In case you were wondering whether virtual reality headsets like Google Cardboard may have any use outside of converting games to a sort of reality for the players, Jaunt hopes you will find the answer is yes. The company has been working on an immersive camera technology to record “spherical audio and video” for use in different applications. Basically Jaunt has taken the idea of photospheres created with smartphones and really beefed it up with a custom camera setup that can produce high quality renderings. To showcase what can be done, Jaunt recently partnered with Paul McCartney to record one of his recent concerts, the last concert held at Candlestick Park before it was demolished, and has produced a video custom made for Google Cardboard users.

The video is available through an app on Google Play and according to the entry, requires a 5-inch or 6-inch device to go with a Google Cardboard viewer. During the concert, Jaunt used two of their camera rigs to record Live and Let Die. One setup was next to McCartney’s piano while the other was near the front of the stage. Viewers can switch between the two sources when viewing the concert footage and whichever one they are on, they can turn their head to view whatever part of the scene they want to check out.

The process of stitching together all of the video that Jaunt’s multiple cameras generates can be a relatively slow process. However, the result is a file that can be used with most video editors along with audio that can also be placed in three dimension. The filesizes end up being small enough to view even on mobile devices.

Jaunt indicates that this first introduction to what their technology can do will not be limited to Google Cardboard. They plan to release versions that will work with Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR units as well. If you want to check out the McCartney concert for this unique perspective and you have Google Cardboard, hit one of the download links below to grab the free app.

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source: The Next Web

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Sprint Galaxy S5 Android 4.4.4 OTA Appears To Actually Really Be Rolling Out This Time

While Verizon rather weirdly got this OTA well before any of the other major carriers over 2 months ago, Sprint is finally officially announcing that its Galaxy S5 will be receiving the update to Android 4.4.4 starting today.

Seven weeks ago, Samsung jumped the gun and announced that the Sprint version would be getting 4.4.4, and its own update site further alleged that the OTA had gone live way back at the end of September.

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