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I am the lead producer for 主播大秀 R&D's where we use technology and design to prototype the future of media and the internet. I help develop ideas, run projects and write and talk about what we do.

I regularly write for the . asked me to round up some of what 主播大秀 R&D have been writing about on our blog over the summer.

Out of our North Lab came the concept of Perceptive Media - adapting stories to the audience by using information about that audience and their context. As Ian in July:

"...it takes narrative back to something more aligned to a storyteller and an audience around a campfire ... to create something closer to a personal theatre experience in your living room".

They released their first instantiation of this, a short radio play called "Breaking Out" which you can .

For the Olympics we released an Augmented Reality application to . Robert, Bruce and Paul wrote about . We worked with colleagues in Japanese broadcaster NHK to bring 7680x4320 resolution, 22.2 channel sound screenings of the Olympics to a . And our was used during NBC's coverage, even picking up fans such as .

Rosie , where media streaming clients switch between different bit-rate streams depending on the quality of connection. Along the way she explains why heating up your dinner might cause your programme to stutter.

We launched a using our and introduced our new project on .

Our work on giving you complementary images alongside radio programmes when listening on hybrid broadcast & internet radios. And we have been using the emerging set of standards from the . Soon, you too will be able to loop, oscillate, wobbulate and modulate from your browser.
wrote a follow up to the on what R&D have been doing with and .

For something completely different, a . Ant finished up his series of videos explaining some of the 主播大秀's work in including work on .

We created a new section on our website to showcase the latest prototypes and code on the web from R&D - . Speaking of , we're working on refreshing the design, structure and content of it and you could really help us out by .

Finally, some events - the in Amsterdam has just finished, where we presented many papers and showed our , RadioDNS, prototypes and more to the many thousands of visitors. And don't forget the around C主播大秀 and user experience happening over the coming months - you might get to help shape the future of the 主播大秀 online.

Tristan Ferne is lead producer, Internet Research & Future Services, 主播大秀 R&D