No time in history has been better for getting lost in a virtual world, and we’ve found the best new products to help you escape. This year brings a new fleet of headphones that perfectly block out the noise around us, consoles that dish out colorful landscapes, and new ways to make content of our

Samsung Electronics announced the global launch of its new Smart Monitor, a screen that brings together features for work, learning and entertainment. In a release Samsung claims that the monitor is designed to meet the new needs of today’s consumers, who are now working, learning and consuming entertainment at home. The new Smart Monitor incorporates

When the director of the University of Redlands School of Music, Joseph Modica, was interviewed for the position last year he was asked about the challenges of the 21st-century musician. “And here we are, we’re experiencing them!” he says of teaching and performing music during the pandemic. While both students and faculty members in the

LONDON (AP) — Imagine a world where you move around in your own personal sound bubble. You listen to your favorite tunes, play loud computer games, watch a movie or get navigation directions in your car — all without disturbing those around you. That’s the possibility presented by “sound beaming,” a new futuristic audio technology

In early September, we reported on an innovative approach to online music collaboration adopted by the Ragazzi Boys Chorus to allow the organization’s various ensembles to keep rehearsing during the pandemic-mandated limits on gatherings. Ragazzi was the first music group to use “Virtual Studio,” the hardware/software solution developed by the JackTrip Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated

The year 2020 will be remembered in the entertainment business as a time of delayed movie releases, suspended filming schedules and canceled concert tours. But the industry is also preparing for the coronavirus pandemic to reshape its means of creating and distributing art. READ MORE FROM THE ORIGINAL SOURCE HERE

The Franklin School in downtown Washington has been empty for more than a decade, except for a brief period in 2011 when the Occupy Movement used it as a homeless shelter. One of the most significant historic structures in the city, and one of the most beautiful, the school was neglected and severely dilapidated. Preservationists

Performing artists are undoubtedly struggling these last six months because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is no different for the Department of Music in the College of Liberal Arts, which has been stressed to meet performance demands, provide virtual learning opportunities for students and keep everyone on the University of Nevada, Reno campus safe. Fortunately,

Samsung’s latest QLED TV with 4K resolution is purpose-built for use outdoors and can handle direct sunlight and any kind of weather JVC’s Exofield headphones deliver a sophisticated surround sound experience that would otherwise require a dozen speakers READ MORE FROM THE ORIGINAL SOURCE HERE

Accompanying the video were various articles written by him and published on his blog. In them, he describes how he accidentally discovered that by running a simple C program outputting single characters and piping them into the audio interface of a computer, it’s possible to encode these bytes and turn them into not just sounds,