The scenes on it, firelit and shot by handheld cameras, feel as intimate as a nine-figure film set on a three-hundred-cubit-long ark can.
Immediately after the training, 28 of 29 trainees felt confident about their ability to collect survey data using the handheld computer, 27 felt confident about transferring data, 26 felt confident about encrypting data files, and 24 felt confident that they could solve the problems they might encounter while using HCDC.
While today is the age of the mobile device, longer term, echoing some of what Zuckerberg said about Facebook's interest in Oculus, there will come a time when even those light, handheld devices will feel cumbersome.
The two templates often make for a chaotic mismatch, however, with hackneyed trash-talking humor resting uneasily alongside the unrelentingly grim (Arnold's character's cartel-tortured family), while the handheld camera grittiness feels ill-conceived for a thin, obvious whodunit filled with luridly, lovingly filmed gore and over-the-top action.
After the field data collection was completed, 16 of 20 interviewers thought that HCDC operations were very easy or easy and that they felt confident about their ability to use the handheld device, and 12 felt they could solve problems on HCDC that arose during the survey activity (Table 3).
Its lyrical beauty, its focus on children and its handheld camerawork by Adam Arkapaw feel far more French or Polish (see Wajda's Ashes And Diamonds, set in the same few weeks).
In smart watches, the trend towards greater customization is clear, but Samsung's design choices are meant to appeal to that same instinct, in a way that still maintains the same general device feel and handheld user experience across variations.
Handheld camera notwithstanding, it feels like a throwback to the days of classic Hollywood cinema, which is why I've recommended it to pretty much everyone I know — men, women, young, old, friends, relatives.
Digital stars are always in your pocket, always available for oversharing; because the viewing experience is so handheld and interstitial, it feels less like vegging with "NCIS" than like carrying around a newborn puppy.
