Facebook working on richer 360-degrees videos for Gear VR headsets

Facebook is working on supporting immersive ads and 360-degrees video for VR headsets and other platforms including the web and iOS. It’s also rolling out 360-degree video uploading tools to Facebook pages which allows companies, artists and the like to deliver better content to people around the world.

If you’re having trouble uploading these sort of videos then Facebook has you covered with 360video.fb.com, which is a website containing all the resources and tips needed to make this sort of footage. The page also has some demo 360 videos to try out and they are brilliant.

In order to bring this level of content to Gear VR consumers, Facebook is working with some big names in the camera maker industry like Theta, Giroptic, IC Real Tech, and 360 Fly. They want to make 360 videos a more casual matter and this means working on an easier way to share videos like this.

We’ve already seen some clever video ads on the Facebook so it’s all in a beginner phase, but Facebook is working with Samsung, Walt Disney, and AT&T to bring richer content, and with Samsung Gear VR headsets being available for pre-order already, you should enjoy some very rich content in the future.

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South Korea’s T-Money and Cashbee payment apps available for Gear S2

The Gear S2 is already available in some important markets including South Korea, China, the US, the UK, and some European countries. Now, Samsung is trying to partner with popular brands and launch as many apps for its latest smartwatch as possible. The latest to join the list of Gear S2 compatible apps are T-Money and Cashbee.

T-Money and Cashbee are two popular rechargeable cards and smart devices that are popular in Seoul, Korea. They can be used for paying transportation through bus, subway, cabs, and even for parking lot fees. These cards can also be used in lieu of cash and credit cards at some convenience stores.

Since the Gear S2 comes with NFC connectivity, it can be used for card-less payments through these apps in conjunction with their smartphone apps. Users of these recharge cards in South Korea can install respective apps on the Gear S2 from Samsung Gear Apps and on the smartphones from Google Play Store or Samsung Galaxy Apps stores.

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Security researchers find a way to listen in on calls made from Samsung smartphones

Security researchers have been able to find a way to listen in on phone calls made through a Samsung smartphone by using a malicious base station, the full extent of this vulnerability is unclear but it does affect the company’s recent high-end devices like the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 edge. It’s classified as a “man-in-the-middle” attack, discovered by researchers Daniel Komaromy and Nico Golde, it involves setting up a malicious base station close to the target device which then automatically connects due to a vulnerability in Samsung’s “Shannon” line of baseband chips.

Once the handset is connected the base station pushes firmware to its baseband processor, a chip that handles voice calls, and that firmware routes the calls through the malicious base station from where they are directed to a proxy that records calls and sends them to the attacker. All of this happens without the user ever knowing about it, they can continue to make and receive calls while they’re recorded in the background as if the line had a wiretap on it. The researchers have not made the full details of this attack public for obvious reasons but they have disclosed it to Samsung which will hopefully have a fix ready in the near future.

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Samsung leads others in number of patents filed for wearable devices

A report which cites data collected from the Thomson Reuters’ Patent Search Service and World Intellectual Property Service (WIPS) states that Samsung is leading its rivals in the most number of patents filed for wearable devices between 2003 and 2014, the same report puts Philips in second and Panasonic in third place. Korea Electronics Technology Institute issued this report, it’s a government-supported research of electronics components, its report found that 64,502 patents were filed between 2003 and 2014 with the top 30 patent holders accounting for 13.2 percent of the findings with 8,539 patents.

Samsung filed the most number of patents for wearable devices in this period, more than 600 to be precise, while Philips and Panasonic came in second and third respectively with a few hundred patents of their own. LG and Canon came fourth and fifth with close to 400 patents. Sony came eight while Microsoft and Qualcomm were found to be the 19th and 20th largest patent holders. Country-wise the most number of wearable device patents, 17,813, were filed in Japan with the United States coming in second place as 14,519 patents for wearable devices were filed during this time period.

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Samsung Display shuts down the L5 production line

Samsung Display has stopped production on the local L5 line which was previously used to mass produce the company’s fifth-generation LCD panels, the production line is located in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province. Now that the line is no longer being used for producing the LCD panels the company has entered the procedure to start selling the equipment. It set up the L5 line back in 2002 which was used to mass produce LCD panels for consumer electronic devices such as monitors and notebooks.

A Samsung Display official has said that the company is now seeking potential buyers who will be willing to acquire the equipment that it has no use of, the exact value of sale has not yet been confirmed but industry analysts believe it may well be in tens of billions of won. Samsung’s fourth-generation production line in Cheonan was sold to China’s Truly last year. It remains to be seen through whether Samsung decides to invest more in LCD production lines in the future or if it’s going to focus more on the OLED lines operating at its A1 to A3 production facilities.

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