Virtual lane graphics for swimming with CSS3

Re:Virtual lane graphics for swimming with CSS3 by randall on Monday March 04, 2013 @11:19AM (#5318890)

This is great! We (Vidpresso) think this sort of thing is the future of TV, and that's why we're building it. Currently, our first product is a way for TV stations to take Facebook and Twitter, and show it using their own graphical look on-air. We have some big broadcasters, like Anderson Cooper's show Anderson Live, as well as some interantional stations in Germany (QVC!), Panama, and Lebanon. In the US we have more than a dozen US TV stations, and Univision uses us for their network programming.

Here's some samples: http://www.youtube.com/user/randallvpp

All we use is Google Chrome on the output side to make it simple to display the graphics.

All three of us have video & TV backgrounds, but we all turned into coders somehow. We're always looking to meet more interesting folks who are interested in the intersection of video and the web. I have info in my profile, plus you can check out our website: http://www.vidpresso.com/

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Re:Virtual lane graphics for swimming with CSS3 by TazeTSchnitzel on Monday March 04, 2013 @04:34PM (#5321131)

Just a suggestion, but perhaps you should put one of the videos from that YouTube channel on the homepage? It would perhaps made a better statement about what your technology can do because you'll be able to "see it in action" without having to find the link to your YouTube channel.

EDIT: Your YouTube link on your homepage under "On the Web" points to your Twitter account!

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Re:Virtual lane graphics for swimming with CSS3 by randall on Monday March 04, 2013 @05:07PM (#5321331)

Yeah... we're updating our site literally as we speak. Hopefully will have it launched in about 30 min.

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Re:Virtual lane graphics for swimming with CSS3 by TazeTSchnitzel on Monday March 04, 2013 @06:12PM (#5321669)

I see, it looks nice! I still think some "screenshots" or a video somewhere on the homepage might look good, but it's your site, not mine!

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Re:Virtual lane graphics for swimming with CSS3 by randall on Monday March 04, 2013 @06:42PM (#5321819)

Try again... not sure what you saw, but yeah there's video as you scroll down... our old site was kind of a "need it up!" kind of thing... and most of our sales are direct sales, so we haven't yet optimized marketing funnels as well as we could.

Which is a way of saying if you want to help us fix our marketing woes, contact me. :)

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Re:Virtual lane graphics for swimming with CSS3 by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @02:13PM (#5326629)

Ah, I see it now :)

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Re:Virtual lane graphics for swimming with CSS3 by graupel on Monday March 04, 2013 @03:55PM (#5320857)

Heh, as soon as I saw this, I expected to pop in here and see this EXACT comment from you!

PS: Vidpresso is the real deal, good stuff.

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Re:Virtual lane graphics for swimming with CSS3 by randall on Monday March 04, 2013 @08:43PM (#5322354)

You going to NAB? We'll be there, so stop by!

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Re:Virtual lane graphics for swimming with CSS3 by graupel on Monday March 04, 2013 @10:49PM (#5322777)

Yup - the 9th to 11th - look forward to saying hello!

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Re:Virtual lane graphics for swimming with CSS3 by stephen_g on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @02:12AM (#5323343)

I think having something like a talk/Q&A show where people can ask questions over Facebook or Twitter and you show just that message on the screen as they talk about it is really cool. But almost always when I see Facebook and Twitter on TV it's just a feed of random people's comments about what's going on.

I can't honestly say I've ever seen one of the latter that hasn't annoyed the crap out of me and just distracted from the show I wanted to watch... It'd be nice if the main video and the overlay could be delivered separately so you could have the option to turn it off (like you can turn off annotations on YouTube video). Hopefully when all our video content comes over the internet and not broadcast.

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Re:Virtual lane graphics for swimming with CSS3 by geuis on Monday March 04, 2013 @01:31PM (#5319681)

Are you guys perhaps in SF? I'm an engineer that has some (amateur) experience doing video editing and some graphics with Premiere and AE.

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Re:Virtual lane graphics for swimming with CSS3 by randall on Monday March 04, 2013 @06:03PM (#5321633)

Not in SF... but we're a virtual team. Shoot me a note... we should chat!

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Re:Virtual lane graphics for swimming with CSS3 by geuis on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @03:43AM (#5323587)

Email sent!

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