People sometimes ask me about the IT industry here in the states. These folks are usually either trying to get into a certain field, or looking to switch or move into another one. Right now, you may currently be a Computer Science major that will be graduating shortly and are ...more
This German video is amazing. A joyously analog interpretation and deconstruction of the digital gaming experience. Malte Jehmlich is as primitive and inspiring as the the Vanuatu natives who devoted themselves to cargo worship after World War II! Try to imagine. It's 2010 an ...more
Review: Marmaduke I liked the part where the fake dogs danced. The funniest joke in the long-awaited live-action/CGI adaptation of everyone's second-least favourite comic strip Marmaduke is actually intentional, which is kind of impressive. Of course, it's not funny in the w ...more
Label Profile: Night-People [Night-People founder Shawn Reed, playing live in Montreal as Wet Hair] By Jenn Pelly MP3: Ela Orleans: "I Know" MP3: Cellophane Spill: "Zaj Mak Ta" If you really want to get inside the mind of Night-People founder Shawn Reed, start with his we ...more
Leave it to to channel lust into a dance hit all about f-ing. The Spanish singer just has this impossible-to-pinpoint, irresistible charm that excuses his chauvinistic qualities and makes him radio gold.But at least he knows he's a pig, and this is the second song where he imp ...more
What's your training about? Would any of it matter if your life depended upon it? If not, what is your training providing you with? These are fundamental questions and your answers to them will determine how you train. Above all, your answers will reflect or require a particu ...more
Dancing is a useful source for improving footwork and impressing your friends. Learn to tear up the dance floor and move with a partner from a professional dance instructor in this free video. Part 1 of 35 - How to Learn dance steps for men and women. Learn dance steps for men ...more
For as long as I've loved SCRABBLE, I can't believe I've never come across this before. "CRAZIEST" - A short story by Liz Dubelman about words and numbers as a religion (think Pi), about SCRABBLE being the oracle, about her quest for the "triple-triple". This spoke words to m ...more
The pavane originated in Europe in the 16th Century. This slow dance was common in Spain, England, France, and Italy. This demonstrational video shows you how to move your feet moving forward. This video is not instructional, although demonstrational, accounting for its modest ...more
JB skating combines roller-skating with a variety of dance styles. If you’re board of your normal Friday nights or looking for a fun and funky way to exercise, grab a pair of skates, watch a few videos and then try it for yourself. This style of roller skating, which originat ...more
Sahira demonstrates how to do Egyptian belly dancing and how to put moves together, with a few basic moves Part 1 of 19 - How to Do Egyptian belly dancing. Do Egyptian belly dancing - Part 2 of 19. Click through to watch this video on expertvillage.com Do Egyptian belly dancin ...more
In this series of video lessons you’ll learn advanced tap moves like the Pink Panther and the Maxie Ford, as well as tips on warming up, combination moves and improvisation. Part 1 of 15 - How to Do advanced tap dancing. Do advanced tap dancing - Part 2 of 15. Click through to ...more
In this video you'll find demonstrations for toprock variations in breakdancing. Learn the steps, the style, and the moves that'll get you up on your feet and dancing like a pro in no time. Must by DJ Mar and DJ Pablo respectively.
This Breakdance tutorial is brought to you by six year old Louis. Enjoy as this cute kid demonstrates the six step break dance move.
For the heel toe hip hop dance move be sure to stay low and have fun! Learn the heel toe hip hop dance move with tips from a choreographer in this free hip hop dance lesson video. Do the heel toe in hip hop dance - Part 1 of 15. Click through to watch this video on expertvilla ...more
The shuffle ball change tap dance move is a great beginning technique to know. Watch as a dance expert shows you tips on exactly how to do this exciting tap dance move in a free video clip. Perform the shuffle ball change - Part 1 of 12. Click through to watch this video on ex ...more
This how to video teaches you the basics of swingouts in swing dancing. This dance move is often used when dancing the Lindy or the Charleston. Watch this tutorial and you will be dancing swingouts in no time.
You look up the screen and see those smiling faces, those excited fans and think, that should be me. Well, it can! Anyone can get a little camera time at football game. You can let it be up to fate or you can get proactive and improve your chances of the camera finding you. G ...more
Break dancers require upper body stretching to stay safe; learn break dancing for the clubs in this free video on break dancing moves for beginners. Stretch for breakdancing - Part 1 of 18. Click through to watch this video on expertvillage.com Stretch for breakdancing - Part ...more
This is probably not the best touchdown celebration but certainly would be the most annoying. Touchdown celebrations are notoriously egotistical so if you want to keep with the tradition you can try out some of these your next touchdown. You’ve built a reputation for the dept ...more
Drawbacks are a great intermediate tap dancing technique to know. Watch as a dance expert shows you tips on exactly how to do this exciting tap dance move in a free video clip. Perform drawbacks in tap dancing - Part 1 of 16. Click through to watch this video on expertvillage. ...more
While taking Breakdance lessons might seem to violate the very ethos of the “streets” movement which spawned the genre, no one will ever know you learned the basics of Breakdancing in a online video course. Expert dance instructor Julie Urich demonstrates the foundation of top ...more
In this video series you will not only learn many of the basics for Jazz dancing but how to put them all together. Our expert covers everything from the type of shoes that are best for training to how to isolate your head when performing a move. These hands on videos will walk ...more
In this video series you will not only learn many of the basics for Jazz dancing but how to put them all together. Our expert covers everything from the type of shoes that are best for training to how to isolate your head when performing a move. Part 1 of 30 - How to Do the ba ...more
The Funny Thing About Dying - A Story of Coping With Loss I remember once as a kid someone fake-punched me in the nose. This older kid hauled off with his fist and pulled the punch just shy of ruining some great and prominent Italian cartilage in the making. Somehow I stood ...more
Think white kids can't dance? Meet Jeff. This 17 year old from New Jersey can move. Pop 'n lock. Body wave. The Urban Dictionary informs: Popping is a party dance and Funkstyle created by Sam Solomon aka Boogaloo Sam, out of Fresno, California in the mid '70s with the West ...more
Im filming seats belts in a car.....I want them to move as if they are alive and dancing. How can this be done.? Can someone help me? Gilbert
Pull through the Legs is a beginner move that is quite easy to pick up. Definately a great move to begin with! Video: . Practise makes perfect!! Be safe and warm up. Use mattress's if need be. ENJOY!
Let me guess. You want a chick who can do this. Well, it takes two to do this move, so educate yourself! Swing dance tutorials. Incredible move.
Hip hop music + outdoor street setting makes tap dancing supremely more cool (not that it wasn't cool already). Pretty sweet move starting around 1:17. Pick up some moves yourself. Now walk it out...walk it out.
Coming into this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the common sentiment among observers was that this was expected to be the big year for augmented reality. But as the biggest tech conference of the year draws to a close, the reality is that 2018 seems more likely to be ...more
Ahhh. Obsession. Specifically, Stephen. When the market dove 700 points last week, he was watching this video, on repeat, mumbling something entirely incoherent. We admit. Her Semitic slur and authentic shimmy do cast a spell. American dance forms just don't move this way. Nu ...more
The longest-running children's television show in the United States, Sesame Street, hasn't survived 50 years without leveraging new technology along the way. The latest innovation from the Sesame Street Workshop is Sesame Street Yourself, a new iOS app that takes advantage of ...more
What if you could combine the fun of Halloween with the process of learning? Well, if you were wise enough to have already snagged a Magic Leap One device, we have good news: the app you're looking for is here, and it's called Zombie Math. Don't Miss: Magic Leap Lawsuit vs. ...more
The great thing about augmented reality is that so much is possible using the emerging tools and software, your only real limit is your imagination — that includes making real versions of imagined products. We're not sure where the idea for the new Posemoji app came from, but ...more
Can't wait till Apple's ARKit is released? Me neither. Luckily, a fun new app launched today that is close to what the ARKit promises to deliver in a few months. The app was launched by holographic tech startup 8i and it's called 'Holo'. It was launched on iOS and Google Play ...more
Hip-hop artist Drake once rapped that "goin' online...ain't part of (his) day," but that's not stopping him from promoting his new double album, Scorpion, via augmented reality on Snapchat. Using Snapchat's Shoppable AR platform, the experience puts users into Drake's hoodie, ...more
There was a huge Marvel movie that opened a week ago, and a popular TV show just finished its second episode of the current season. Both of these facts translate to more cool Snapchat lenses to try out on your iPhone or Android phone, thanks to Snapchat's Lens Studio — where a ...more
As if its users weren't already having enough fun with dancing hot dogs and face effects, Snapchat is upping the ante with a new kind of shared augmented reality content. Called Snappables, the interactive Lenses include games that users can play with facial expressions and h ...more
People love emojis, it's a scientific fact. So an app that places poops, smileys, and ghosts into social media videos should, in theory, be the most popular app ever. That's likely the reasoning behind the new Holocam app, which is available for $0.99 in the iOS App Store. Sur ...more
Two salsa dancers who also happen to be programmers are soon releasing an app called Dance Reality, made with Apple's ARKit. Through this app, you will be able to practice your dancing with augmented reality as your teacher right from your iPhone. Update: Next Reality origina ...more
Sometimes I forget that I'm also a fiction writer, so I thought it might be a nice change of pace to share one of my stories with you. I wrote this piece awhile ago for an anthology that never came together and I'm tired of just sitting on it. It's one of the more odd stories ...more
Are you sitting down as you read this? You might want to stand up for a little bit. In case you haven't heard, sitting for prolonged periods of time is really bad for your long-term health—so bad that chronic sitters are 54% more likely to die of a heart attack, even if they ...more
Think atomic theory is only for nerds? Think again. Make magical electrons dance right before your very eyes. This anti-gravity orb will move at your command. All you need is a magic wand (for the Muggles of the world, buy PVC pipe) and some leftover Christmas tinsel. No tins ...more
It is Saturday. Party. Dance. I have wanted a tutorial/breakdown of the booty dance for more than a year. Hell, I did not even know what to call the move before this video entered my life. How else am I to learn the booty dance. Go to a club and say, "Excuse me ma'am, what i ...more
In case anybody's been under a Beyoncé-proof rock for the last month, the (internet) world is forever changed by the Single Ladies... and in many ways, me. Beyoncé launched her Sasha Fierce alter ego into web memedom thanks to a few skilled admirers and a couple of secret B-w ...more
The year 2021 is already promising to yield a number of major shifts in the augmented reality landscape, and Snap is signaling that it has every intention of being an aggressive part of that narrative. On Tuesday, it was revealed that the company has acquired a London-based r ...more
For some, there's nothing more thrilling than carrying an armful of bags while wandering the mall; for others, there's nothing more annoying. No matter what category of shopper you fit into, the truth is that you aren't always in control of what you buy. One reason you spend ...more
Snapchat made augmented reality selfie effects famous, with Facebook copying the feature across its mobile apps. Of course, others have followed, but their face tracking apps often pale in comparison to the original. Now, Google is giving Android developers the keys to adding ...more
Because it takes two to tango, your dancing Bitmoji World Lens on Snapchat is getting a dance partner. Snapchat's new 3D Friendmojis are World Lenses that mix your own Bitmoji with your friend's doppelganger for dual AR hijinks. Activating a 3D Friendmoji is accomplished by ...more
One of the byproducts of the success of Pokémon Go was the viral images that made the rounds on social media of people putting Pikachus, Charmanders, and their brethren in compromising positions. Snapchat has a similar claim to fame, most recently with the inexplicable popular ...more
Heathrow Airport's most recent arrival isn't a flight, but rather an interactive children's game featuring augmented reality technology. The game is the first of its kind at the airport, allowing children to scan digital badges using an app on their smartphones to see charact ...more
While Leap Motion and Microsoft are looking to capture natural human motion with cameras, Enflux figured out how to do it with a shirt and pants that feel completely natural. Video: . Everyone's trying to figure out the best way to interact with virtual environments now that s ...more
Using a green screen is an affordable and easy way to transport your video to anywhere imaginable, even to places that don't exist. You can use it to sit behind a desk in a busy newsroom or dance on the moon, but first, you have to know how to properly perform chroma key compo ...more
Running diagnostics on your Android phone can be a very tedious process. More often than not, you need to key in dialer codes to see if your device's hardware is functioning properly, though you can also download apps — but these are often hard to understand for a layperson. W ...more
If you've been following NextReality, you've surely seen me around, or at least have seen my articles. My name is Jason Odom, aka Subere23, and it's about time for a formal introduction. My background primarily falls in the computer game industry, and I have co-owned a small ...more
The march of Snap to become the world's augmented reality engine isn't slowing down. In a new deal announced on Thursday, Snap has revealed that it has signed an agreement to become the software driving Universal Music Group's (UMG) mobile AR music offerings. • Don't Miss: T ...more
For the average consumer, augmented reality is a fun way of dressing up photos and videos for social media. However, AR is also gaining momentum as a medium for storytelling, particularly in sharing powerful messages. In light of the protests stemming from the death of George ...more
Whenever the name Magic Leap comes up, the talk inevitably seems to turn to the company's big-name backers and "unicorn-level" amounts of cash poured into the venture. And if it's not that, observers tend to focus on the company's market strategy and overall prospects. These ...more
Automotive augmented reality company WayRay has set its destination for a $1 billion valuation with an estimated time of arrival of 2019, and it has just passed a major milestone towards that goal. On Tuesday, the company announced that it has closed an $80 million Series C r ...more