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World of Warcraft Loses 1.3 Million Subscribers
Online adventure game World of Warcraft has seen a 14% drop in subscribers in the first three months of the year, according to a report by publisher Activision Blizzard. The trend is likely to continue, although World of Warcraft remains the most popular subscriber-based massively multiplayer online game.
The 14% dip amounts to 1.3 million subscribers lost, most of them in the Asian market, in spite of efforts to appeal to that particular gaming sector. An upgrade launched in September last year gave a significant boost to subscriber numbers, bringing them to 10 million in October.
The upgrade, Mists of Pandaria, contained a large amount of Asian themed content while still staying true to the game’s lore. The title was initially a great success, selling 2.7 million copies in the first week and swelling subscriber number by over one million in China. The latest figures however indicate that even a new continent inhabited by pandas skilled in martial arts was not able to convince many subscribers to stay.
Developers blame the drop on increased competition on the MMO market and especially on the rise of free-to-play games. The California-based company is not willing to give up without a fight though. They are planning to release new content more frequently in order to keep players engaged longer and make the return easier for those who are absent from the game for a long time.
Even so, we don’t expect things to get any easier for WoW. The MMO is expected to lose some more subscribers to other titles, including WildStar, developed by a game studio that includes many ex Blizzard employees.
Activision is likely to face stern competition from Disney as well. The company’s new game Skylanders, which allows gamers to use real-life toy figures in the game through near field communications technology, got critics and gamers excited. But Disney is developing a similar title, which it plans to release this summer.
If the drop in subscribers continues, the developers will have no other choice but to make their title free-to-play. Almost ten years after it launch, WoW remains the most popular subscriber-based game online, with 8.3 million players. At its peak, in 2010, it had up to 12 million players.
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Smartphone App Helps Visually Impaired Photographers
A group of researchers at the Santa Cruz University of California have developed a special smartphone app that will allow visually impaired photographers to take the perfect shot. The yet unnamed app uses technology based on smartphone facial detection sensors.
The project led by PhD student Dustin Adams began with a quiz of over 50 people with various degrees of visual impairment, who were asked to detail the main problems they were facing when trying to take a photograph. The answers were then used as indication of what elements were absolutely necessary in developing a device or application that would allow visually impaired users to take a snapshot.
The research team discovered that one of the most challenging issues has to do with fixing control placements, not only with framing the shot. The first step in developing the app was, of course, to make it voice controlled, and thus allow visually impaired users to take a photo with their smartphone without requiring an actual shutter button.
Instead of the traditional shutter button, the app can be activated by making a swipe gesture upwards. Due to the face detection technology it is based on, the smartphone application will be able to talk to the users and tell them how many faces/people are in the frame and in focus before taking the shot.
After activation, the camera has a 30-second countdown before taking the picture and in that time continues to count the number of faces in the frame and to explain whether they are in focus, so as to help the photographer to get everybody in the picture.
During those 30 seconds, the camera also makes an audio recording which can be saved by the user together with the associated photo, in order to help the visually impaired photographer to organize the files and easily identify each shot by its audio signature.
The application, which is not yet available to the general public, will be mainly useful to take pictures of human subjects, because of the face detection technology. The concept will be officially unveiled by the research team later this month.
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