Teams of hackers, programmers, API developers and industry experts gathered to construct new television-inspired applications and innovations, providing a potential glimpse into the future.
The rules were quite open-ended – visionaries were allowed limitless options for development, including second-screens, set-top boxes, connected TVs, binge-watching, different methods for user control and more.
Here’s a look at what some of the participants and champions came up with.
TVDuffle
Using APIs from Gracenote, Mashery, NatGeo and others, the app developed by this crew allows a viewer to “instantly plan a trip to beautiful documentary or movie locations you see on TV” by locating hotel deals near the destination on your screen.They won a 40in Samsung LED TV and received recognition from Mashery for their efforts.
TVDuffel wins 40" Samsung LED TV, the DIRECTV award for best use of DIRECTV open APIs @TVOTShow #TVOTHack #hackathon pic.twitter.com/ceqQdFhubz
— DIRECTV Dev (@directvdev) June 9, 2014
Safer TV
Safer TV operates by monitoring news captions in real time and analyzing them.
The programmers achieved recognition from Boxfish for using the company’s API.
Award @TVOTshow Hackathon for best use of Boxfish Feed API goes to Safer TV! pic.twitter.com/wcgQ8rMNNu
— Boxfish (@bxfsh) June 9, 2014
Iron Man
Iron Man is a program that allows an EPG to be controlled using physical gestures; it utilizes the wearable Myo armband by Thalmic Labs.
Selecting movies currently airing using #MYO and drop to TV you want to watch at #tvothack @thalmicdev https://t.co/GAAH5LX8YX
— Ethan Fan (@ethanyfan) June 9, 2014
NextWatch
NextWatch is a TV recommendation app for iOS that works by creating unique user profiles. By storing and tracking the metadata from what the viewer watches – including shows, genres, actors, run times, etc. – suggestions are made for new programming to be seen at specific dates and times.
Check out more pictures of the various teams and participants of the Hackathon
here.
Author: Brian Cameron
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