Lights, Camera, Android!

Spotlight Stories are brief, interactive entertainments -- “immersive shorts” is the preferred term -- originally conceived by the Advanced Technology and Projects team at Motorola, during the company’s brief life as a Google subsidiary. The ATAP unit did not go to Lenovo when the Chinese PC maker bought Motorola last year, but was shifted to Google’s Android division. ATAP has many projects in the works including a 3-D sensing system called Tango and a modular phone development kit called Ara. But Spotlight Stories reach beyond the geeky advances into something that uses advanced tech to reframe storytelling itself. They are the embodiment of the vision that Steve Jobs always espoused about the nexus of art and technology.