Create an immersive home entertainment experience

a cozy night

Our top picks for creating a more immersive home entertainment experience are fairly obvious, but sometimes the simplest techniques are the most effective. So, to take these cozy nights to the next level, why not try finding an 8K TV, maybe on a bigger scale…

Of course, there are plenty of TVs on the market for people to choose from, but an 8K TV will give you the best experience. “If you want to experience the highest quality display, 8K is the way to go,” said consumer tech company Reliant. “An 8K display provides extreme accuracy so you won’t miss the details of anything you’re watching. So if you want that cinematic night experience, an 8K screen will provide the most accurate picture and immersive The experience of being there.”

Reliant offers TVs featuring technologies such as QNED, NanoCell, QLED, NEO QLED and LG Signature displays to deliver ultra-fine, ultra-sharp focused light and extreme blacks. “They offer a range of colours and shades to bring you colour to life so you can immerse yourself in shows, movies and sports,” it added.

The company’s TVs feature powerful processors that upscale the picture to maximum resolution, allowing viewers to enjoy finer detail in everything they watch. “Anti-reflection technology improves viewing angles, allowing the TV to be enjoyed from multiple areas of the room. OLED displays have self-emissive pixels that produce richer colors and sharper images.”

Reliant’s TVs are also “surround sound ready,” allowing you to “enhance your audio experience with multi-directional sound.” While many TVs already have proficient speakers and sound tracking, Reliant says the surround sound setup is the way to “upgrade”.

Again, it’s an obvious choice, but getting an 8K TV is a great way to set up the ultimate home entertainment system. Having said that, we’d say it’s best to go for a 75-inch (or larger) TV and make it totally worth your time. Anything smaller and it might take away that immersive experience.

sound prism

To complement the visuals of an 8K-quality TV when watching a horror movie in the living room, sound is key — after all, it makes the horror even scarier. But to truly immerse yourself in the experience, surround sound (or 3D audio) is your best bet. That’s where technologies like Dolby Atmos come into play.

While Atmos has been around for a decade, debuting with the release of the 2012 Pixar film Brave, the technology has ushered in a new era of 3D sound and is increasingly becoming the most important and influential film in cinema one of the technologies. family entertainment.

The defining feature of the technology is the configuration of its audio objects – sounds are no longer confined to their respective channels, whether moving vertically or horizontally. Think of each sound as a sphere floating in space: it can “float” along any plane. Such height channels create a more immersive sound.

For a better sound experience for your home theater or playing music, a multi-speaker setup is probably best. But even soundbars with Atmos, like AO’s Sonos Beam, offer a “bigger” and more enveloping soundstage than stereo soundbars.

According to AO, Sonos Beam can “enrich your entertainment experience” by allowing its users to “enjoy Atmos,” whether watching shows or movies, or playing video games.

Buying this technology will definitely give you what AO describes as “all-around sound,” but fair warning, you’ll need a TV that supports Dolby Atmos and Atmos-encoded content.

Let there be light!

If you want to enhance your visuals beyond an already 8K TV, then maybe a TV backlight can do the trick.

Experts say that by illuminating the wall behind your TV, you can dramatically improve your TV’s color and contrast, black levels, and power consumption, while reducing eye strain (blame the streaming service for its binge-watching model!).

Award-Winning LED Products Lighting company Govee Can imitate the dominant colors in the content displayed on the screen.

Govee says its Envisual camera color-matching technology uses an in-house-made algorithm to intelligently “recognize and capture” the colors on the TV screen and automatically apply them to the backlight.

Govee’s DreamView products feature segmented color controls that allow users to personalize each segment on a single bar for a more vivid viewing experience. This is done through its RGBIC illuminated display technology – powered by an advanced IC (Individually Controlled) chip – allowing multiple colors to be seen on a single strip light at the same time.

be happy Allows users to “create, share and consume immersive stories” from multiple perspectives through ViiVid (Vantage Video) technology

at your fingertips

From endlessly browsing TikTok to watching silly cat videos on Facebook, there’s no question that the videos we watch on our smartphones are now a huge part of the way we consume content and entertain ourselves. But what if we told you there was technology that could enhance your video experience, especially for live events?

Well, there is. In fact, a startup called Happaning is proposing a big step forward in video by introducing a new media format, Multi-Vantage-Videos, which the London-based firm has aptly named ViiVids.

But how does it work? ViiVid data streams (including audio/video output, time signatures, location/location information, metadata, etc.) are generated when the user captures video and broadcast through decentralized, peer-to-peer recording devices, mobile and static mesh networks . Each device then synchronizes and records relevant data within the network.

It encompasses both direct (e.g. Bluetooth), local (e.g. Wi-Fi) and mobile phone networks, allowing co-located individuals (including those without mobile data) or remote viewers to move along between vantage points within the recording network. Directional translation, the company says, is a way of space/time synchronization. Then, unobtrusive augmented reality (AR) markers show the relative position and position (distance, height, and/or direction) of other available vantage points within the current field of view, while peripheral markers show those beyond the frame.

Once recording is complete, the media artefacts (along with checksums and timelines of associated sync data) are sent to the server side for post-production processing to validate, merge, and prepare for on-demand review of the benefits of ViiVid playback.

“So, whether at an event or from the comfort of your home, the ViiVid player allows you to seamlessly move between multiple videos in ViiVid, just swipe in the direction you want to watch, just like you It’s the same there,” said co-founder and COO Ese Eniwumide.

The technology’s initial use case is for recording real-world events such as weddings, concerts, sporting events, protests or marches, or any other event that involves a larger number of people. After recording in Happaning, you can swipe from one video to the next by tapping the markers within the video to view the same event from other angles and perspectives.

Think of it like a Google Street View, but with video.

smell the wine

Imagine a world where other senses can be elevated in the game…

In fact, researchers at Stockholm University and Malmö University in Sweden have developed a scent machine, the so-called olfactometer, that allows gamers to smell in VR environments. Together with the smell machine, they created a “tasting game”.

In the game, participants move around a virtual wine cellar, pick up glasses with different wines, and guess the aroma. A small scent machine is attached to the VR system’s controller, which emits scent when the player lifts the glass.

Jonas Olofsson, professor of psychology at Stockholm University and research project leader, hopes that the possibilities of the new technology will lead to smells playing a more important role in game development.

“The possibility of smell moving from passive to more active in the gaming world paves the way for the development of new smell-based game mechanics based on player actions and judgments,” added Simon Niedenthal of Interaction and Judgment. Game researcher at Malmö University.

The olfactometer includes four valves, each connected to a channel from which a fan draws air into the center tube. With the help of the computer, players can control the four channels, making them open to different degrees, offering different scent mixes.

So far, VR has only given us more immersive games from a visual perspective. This certainly takes the experience to the next level – even if you don’t want to play a farming game.