Fox News adopts Windows 8 and huge 55-inch touchscreen computers that dwarf humans

Fox News, the top-rated cable news channel here in the US, has recently embraced the hereafter through their re-worked News Deck headed by Shepard Smith. The studio re-launch took a calendar month to complete and with it, brought some massive new changes. Literally.

Found throughout the studio are BATS (big area touchscreens), which in reality are 55-inch computers running Windows 8. It's so audacious that when Sam shared a motion-picture show of it this morning, I seriously thought it was a Photoshop job. Only nope, they are real and they are being used past staff to monitor news, Twitter and various feeds for the latest information.

There's as well a 38-foot video wall that surrounds the studio, which isn't too shabby either, and the whole studio looks similar something out of Star Trek.

Fox News has evidently created some of their own custom apps for Windows eight to manage those Twitter and incoming News feeds. Likewise bad nosotros can't get them leaked as and so we can all play news reporter from our homes! No discussion on what exactly powers the hardware or the display resolution, though some information will probably come forrard eventually.

You lot can encounter it all in activeness in the video tour above.

Imagine operating Windows 8 from a 55-inch "tablet" but a few feet from your face? It seems kind of crazy to united states, but kudos to Play a trick on News for pushing the boundaries. Incidently, we played with a similar setup dorsum at CES last January: "The earth's almost badass Windows viii computer"

Fox News has e'er seemed to exist a fan of Microsoft every bit they were one of the kickoff news channels to offering a Windows Telephone app, one that has continually been developed through WIndows Phone 8.

Source: TVNewser; Thank you, Patrick S., for the tip

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