Lightbomber, an app designed specifically for light painting, is programmed to keep the shutter open in order to allow you to produce long-exposure effects. That’s because the iPhone doesn’t offer manual exposure controls it sets the shutter speed and aperture automatically. The resulting images often have a wonderfully abstract or surreal quality.īecause light painting requires manual shutter-speed control, you can’t really do it-not consistently or easily-with the iPhone’s built-in camera app or other popular camera apps. Think of an image of a highway at night, with the trails of lights from car headlights and taillights: That’s light-painting photography. By keeping the shutter open, you’re able to use a flashlight, sparkler, or other light to “paint” in the image, even writing words. Light painting is essentially a form of long-exposure photography, requiring both an extended exposure-a few seconds or more-and the presence of lights in the image. Tilt-shift photography, through-the-viewfinder (TtV) techniques, light leaks-all have been popularized by apps such as Lo-Mob and TiltShift Generator. Lightbomber belongs to a venerable group of iPhone photography apps devoted to bringing specialized photographic processes and techniques, especially those pre-dating digital photography, to mobile image-making. But if one of the promises of cloud gaming was to allow you to take your gaming everywhere, who then is this sit-down, big-screen experience for? Xbox product manager Harrison Hoffman told GameSpot that new apps like this are not only targeted at new Xbox consumers, but at the existing audience as well.Lightbomber lets you experiment with light painting on your mobile iOS device. The app certainly shows promise and is another indicator pointing toward a future where cloud gaming transforms the way we play. For my demo, the Samsung Gaming Hub featured dedicated options to connect Bluetooth devices at the home screen level, and it was a pretty frictionless way to get into the Xbox app. But as with all cloud gaming, a lot of the success of applications like this comes down to how decent your internet connectivity is with Xbox cloud gaming, 20mbps is the recommended speed to get that 1080p 60fps topline.Īs for peripheral connectivity, the Xbox TV app supports a wide range of Bluetooth controllers and headsets (even PlayStation ones). All of the functionality Xbox's other cloud services have-such as online multiplayer, cloud saves, and console-like fast loading times-are all featured as part of the TV app, although resolution does top out at 1080p 60fps. I played a few minutes each of both Forza Horizon 5 and Halo Infinite, and both games felt so responsive it was difficult to tell the game was being delivered via cloud directly to a TV without a console sitting next to it. The experience itself played very smoothly, with the caveat of course that the demo was quite brief and took place under ideal conditions where bandwidth likely wasn't an issue. The app itself launches just like any other app on a smart TV (on the new Samsung models, it will be part of Samsung's Gaming Hub, which is a new section on the TV's home screen that gathers all game-related content and functionality), and if you've played cloud games via Game Pass on a browser or a phone, then the TV app interface will look pretty familiar. That shift looks like it has the potential of happening pretty seamlessly based on a recent demo I had of the Xbox app running on one of those new Samsung TVs. But taking away the need for a console entirely while still playing on a big screen in your lounge room feels like a consequential next big step, and further underlines Xbox's attitude shift away from moving boxes and into selling subscriptions. Access to Game Pass has been available on mobiles and PC browsers for months now, and you've even been able to stream cloud-enabled games using your Xbox console (without having to download said games). This isn't, of course, the first move Xbox has made to separate its console hardware from the Game Pass service. Now Playing: Play Fortnite At /play With Xbox Cloud Gaming For Free By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's
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