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Highlights of the upcoming Visual1st conference Events Podcasts 

Highlights of the upcoming Visual1st conference

Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talks with Hans Hartman, chair of the Visual1st conference, about the next in-person edition of the Visual1st conference. The highly-regarded Visual1st conference returns to the Golden Gate Club at the Presidio, San Francisco, Calif., Oct. 4-5, 2022. The event features four panels, product demos and fireside chats on topics like adding video to... Read More
Dead Pixels Society podcast: Visual 1st conference with Hans Hartman News Podcasts 

Dead Pixels Society podcast: Visual 1st conference with Hans Hartman

Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talks with Hans Hartman, president of Suite 48 Analytics and chair of Visual 1st.  Visual 1st is the premier global conference focused on promoting innovation and partnerships in the photo and video ecosystem, hosting executives and entrepreneurs at photo and video app development startups, mobile device vendors, carriers, cloud storage providers, software companies,... Read More
Hartman: The most impactful potential improvement to photo print products is… Market research 

Hartman: The most impactful potential improvement to photo print products is…

Researcher and Visual 1st conference co-chair Hans Hartman published findings from his recent  2020 Photo Print Product Survey showing consumers are more activated to print by speed than any other factor, including discovery and seeing printed samples. The 2020 Photo Print Product Survey surveyed respondents whose households had ordered photo print products in the last 12 months (“would they order more photo print... Read More
Opinion: Blockchain, not cryptocurrency, will be the engine of imaging value News Opinion 

Opinion: Blockchain, not cryptocurrency, will be the engine of imaging value

The buzz about cryptocurrency hasn’t escaped the photo industry, as we’ve seen several attempts from companies to adapt their businesses to this economic model. As we’ve seen, Eastman Kodak Co. made the news with its partnership WENN Digital to unveil KODAKCoin, a cryptocurrency based on professional photography. Details are just now being released, which shed some light on the details of... Read More
Analysis: The potential of AR for printed photo products Market research Opinion 

Analysis: The potential of AR for printed photo products

Hans Hartman at Suite 48 Analytics wrote an interesting analysis of the opportunity for printed products with augmented reality (AR) enhancements. “Fresh from our presentation at the photokina Business Forum Imaging conference in Cologne and discussions with quite a few of the assembled photo print product providers there, we see many opportunities for leveraging AR for printed photo products,” he writes. “In... Read More
Suite 48a study finds ample supply of innovative apps to jumpstart consumer AR adoption Market research News 

Suite 48a study finds ample supply of innovative apps to jumpstart consumer AR adoption

Augmented reality is poised to forever change how consumers experience the world From apps that control noise-canceling headphones to remove unwanted sound to shopping apps that show how a new couch would look in our living room, via apps that embed enticing videos on our child’s favorite storybook pages, consumer AR apps are here now. According to the just published Consumer... Read More
MacOS High Sierra expands built-in photo printing New Products News 

MacOS High Sierra expands built-in photo printing

Apple Inc. rolled out a MacOS update amidst the flurry of product introductions in recent weeks. Among them, Mac OS High Sierra offers expanded photo functionality that companies are already taking advantage of. Deployed as an extension to the built-in Photos app, the new functionality was introduced at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference in June. (Hans Hartman does a nice... Read More
Mobile Photo Perspectives: Going Deep – the race for depth imaging smartphones is on Market research Opinion 

Mobile Photo Perspectives: Going Deep – the race for depth imaging smartphones is on

Hans Hartman at Suite 48a offers an interesting perspective on the potential for depth imaging in his weekly Mobile Photo Perspectives newsletter. Here’s an excerpt: Our smartphones will soon be depth imaging devices, featuring cameras that measure depth information for each part of the image.  Lenovo already came out with the Google Tango-based Phab 2 phone last year and with the upcoming release of the iPhone... Read More
WWDC takeaways: lots of great news for photo app developers, but one major puzzler  Market research News 

WWDC takeaways: lots of great news for photo app developers, but one major puzzler 

WWDC takeaways: lots of great news for photo app developers, excerpt from Hans Hartman at Suite 48a: Apple’s OS 11 developer ARKit enables developers to build mixed reality apps that interpret the imagery from the user’s iPhone camera by identifying surfaces, tracking motion, estimating scale as well as ambient lighting, and by providing fast and stable motion tracking. What does that mean?... Read More
Google I/O: What’s wrong with a lack of jaw-dropping announcements? Market research Opinion 

Google I/O: What’s wrong with a lack of jaw-dropping announcements?

Opinion from Hans Hartman at Suite 48a at his Mobile Photo Perspectives column. Click the link at the bottom to read more: In short: Nothing. With an emphasis on incremental improvements to Google’s photo organizing, sharing and search solutions, Google’s maturing solutions are now becoming so easy, efficient, and helpful that many consumers will feel they can’t live without them. Perhaps... Read More
New at Mobile Photo Connect 2017: Monetization Focus, Expanded Schedule, VIP Networking Program Events Press releases 

New at Mobile Photo Connect 2017: Monetization Focus, Expanded Schedule, VIP Networking Program

Oakland, CA, May 15, 2017 — Mobile Photo Connect, the premier conference for the mobile imaging industry, today announced three key innovations for its 2017 edition (October 24-25, in San Francisco, CA): an “umbrella” focus on monetization, an expanded schedule (to 1.5 days) and an Early Bird VIP Networking program, providing extra networking opportunities to attendees who register by June... Read More
Move over Snap: Facebook is the camera company to beat  Earnings reports Opinion 

Move over Snap: Facebook is the camera company to beat 

From Hans Hartman’s weekly Mobile Photo Perspectives insights. It’s the platform, stupid Just as the world finally figured out why Snap relabeled itself as a camera company, last week Facebook proclaimed it’s not just a camera company, it’s a camera company built on the world’s ambitious augmented reality platform. Let’s add some perspectives to their F8 announcements: Recently, Facebook has... Read More
The unstoppable rise of Stories Market research Opinion 

The unstoppable rise of Stories

Suite 48a’s Hans Hartman has an interesting take on the rise of Facebook Stories as a compelling medium: New social visual story telling format strikes a chord in social networks and chat services Pictures may be worth a thousand words, but visual stories must be worth more by some mega-factor, judging by the success of Snapchat’s Stories feature and Instagram’s... Read More