Eyecon Brings Facebook's Social Graph To Digital Home
Eyecon enables two friends to share Facebook photos on the same connected TV at the same time, using the "EyeconTroller" mobile app (on iPhone/iPad, on Android). Is Facebook's next evolution to bring the social graph into the digital home?
Eyecon enables two friends to share Facebook photos on the same connected TV at the same time, using the “EyeconTroller” mobile app (on iPhone/iPad, on Android). Is Facebook’s next evolution to bring the social graph into the digital home?
Eyecon woke me up to Facebook’s potential as a media sharing platform. I met the team at the Digital Hollywood conference last week. I knew going into the show that: 1) Media sharing is on the rise, 2) Movie studios are putting more content online and 3) New consumer electronics can connect to the Internet. But it took the entrepreneurs at Eyecon Technologies to connect the dots, and show me Facebook’s potential as a dominant media sharing platform.
The New “Digital Home”
You may not know it, but you already live in the digital home of the future. And Facebook works in your digital home!
Your Mac, Windows 7 PC, iPhone and your new IP-connected TV can all share media with each other. If your phone, TV and laptop are all connected to the same wireless network, then those devices can talk to each other using Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) and DNLA technologies.
Your devices come from the store ready to work as media players for media files located on other devices (pictures, movies and MP3s). DNLA devices can share media easily between themselves in your home or from sources across the Internet – like photos and media uploaded to Facebook.
Digital Home Innovation
9000 consumer electronic devices are DNLA compatible. Digital Entertainment entrepreneurs are creating innovate ways to share media in the home. Eyecon’s solution is to use your mobile app as a kind of universal remote control.
EyeconTroller App (iPhone, iPad, Android)
Its amazing to see an iPhone control the devices in your home. Eyecon creates a bridge between your media and your connected entertainment devices.
