BBC News has a couple of interesting articles on trends for 2009, emanating from Silicon Valley. I’d like to pick up on the second of the two articles on the site (here and here), since it’s got some neat trends…
First up is Mobility – whether it’s devices, consumption of the InterWeb, or Advertising, apparently 2009 will be a year everything goes large on Mobile devices.
Next up is The Game Changer – which is actually a small text about Apple’s App Store. There’s no doubt this was massive in 2008, and I wouldn’t bet against it expanding even further in 2009.
Last up is Online Video – the point being that it’s consumption will shoot up this year.
I would add to this a couple of things – first of combining the first and third points that were made in the article, to form Mobile Video – I really think we are there now for consumption of feature-length content on Mobile – for a combination of reasons, including screen size, ease of use, and battery.
Next, I would add 3D to this – 3D is being punted at CES, in Cinemas, in the Broadcast World (BSkyB are trialling it), and also in the Mobile World. Vuzix provide a pretty good example of this:
(Check out my post on the 920AV glasses here)
So as I was saying, I think it’s going to be the year of both Mobile Video, and perphaps a ton of that content in 3D – I for one think that experiencing 3D would be something best done with specialist glasses connected to a Mobile device – what say you readers?
[You can read the “Silicon Valley looks towards 2009” BBC News articles here and here]