Through the Looking Glass: How Technology is changing Entertainment as we know it

This is a talk I gave at Villanova University on the changing face of entertainment.

Transcript

1. Through the Looking Glass: How technology is changing entertainments as we know it! Arpit Mathur! Lead Software Engineer! Comcast Innovation Labs!
3. What we’ll talk about! •  How could making content change?! •  How could consuming content change?! •  How could business models change?!
4. Disclaimer! •  Its almost my job to be optimistic…!
5. What we’ll talk about! •  How could making content change?! •  How could consuming content change?! •  How could business models change?!
6. Customary Rapid Pace of Innovation Slide! h"p://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/kpcb-­‐internet-­‐trends-­‐2013  
7. •  100 Hours of Video per min Uploaded to YouTube! •  500MM+ Photos uploaded/shared per day! h"p://iotevent.eu/big-­‐data-­‐set-­‐to-­‐explode-­‐as-­‐40-­‐billion-­‐ new-­‐devices-­‐connect-­‐to-­‐internet/  
8. Why is content growing so explosively?! h"p://www.flickr.com/photos/ashtonpal/  
9. More accessible tools!
10. Definition of entertainment is changing!
11. h"p://venturebeat.com/2013/10/30/major-­‐league-­‐gaming-­‐will-­‐be-­‐bigger-­‐than-­‐the-­‐nhl-­‐in-­‐two-­‐years/  
12. Game Engines will enable a new kind of video creation!
15. •  11 Seasons! •  200+ episodes! •  6,438,522 views for episode 1!
16. Truly immersive content!
18. What we’ll talk about! •  How could making content change?! •  How could consuming content change?! •  How could business models change?!
19. Watch the glass…!
20. The Future of Screens..! h"ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38   “A  Day  Made  of  Glass”   Fun  fact:  Corning  reports  yearly  demand  of  glass  in  square  feet.  3.5  billion  for  this  year  
21. The Second Screen!
22. Dumber Screens!
23. What we’ll talk about! •  How could making content change?! •  How could consuming content change?! •  How could business models change?!
24. The Empowered Fan!
29. Jazzed yet?!
30. Some parting thoughts…! •  The era empowered engineer! ! •  “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”! –  Henry Ford! ! •  “There is a fine line between a vision and a hallucination” !
31. Thank you!