Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup 10/22-10/28

Review: Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL

Paid music streaming services to have bigger impact on Billboard charts in 2018

Essential Phone gets permanently discounted by $200

Google Home Mini is now available in Canada

Review: Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

Review: Sonos One Smart Speaker

13 original Xbox games now available to Xbox One consoles

Google partners with uBreakFix for Pixel 2 repairs in US and Canada

Ladies Learning Code is now Canada Learning Code

Now's your chance to grab the BlackBerry KEYOne for $80 off

You can now add a friend to Instagram Live Stories

The Biggest Sectors Investing In eSports

Staples Canada now offers unlocked iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus

Amazon redesigns Kindle app

10 Things to know about iPhone X

Compugen introduces new service to support Apple products for Canadian enterprise market

A Perfect Way to Convert YouTube Playlist to MP3

‘HTC U11 Plus’ to get officially launched on November 2nd

WhatsApp will now let you recall messages you didn’t mean to send

Rogers reports tremendous excitement for iPhone X and good demand for iPhone 8

Netflix Original Series ‘Stranger Things 2’ is turning our world upside down again

Unboxing the Xbox One X

Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s VR installation wins Oscar

Google Home lets you speak to Stranger Things characters in new audio game

Google Home lets you speak to Stranger Things characters in new audio game

One way Netflix and Google are marketing the newest season of Stranger Things is through a new audio game you can play on Google Home. The trigger word to start playing the game is “Ok Google, talk to Dustin from Stranger Things” and then you’re magically transported to 1984 and talking to Dustin Henderson in Hawkins, Indiana. The game will also have you interacting with other characters in the new season of the show. You might need to binge-watch the show first before playing the game, unless you’re okay with getting spoiled.

Source: Android Authority

Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s VR installation wins Oscar

Neil Kellerhouse

It’s been 22 years since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have handed out a special Oscar to someone (the last one was Toy Story in 1995) and there have only been less than two dozen given out. And for the first time, a virtual reality experience gets the award. The Academy is giving two-time Oscar-winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Carne y Arena (Virtually Present, Physically Invisible) VR installation that’s currently housed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It looks into the experience of Mexican refugees and combines physical spaces—which features sand-covered floor, a spare and cold waiting room, and multi-screen video installation—and an Oculus Rift.

According to John Bailey, the Academy’s president, Carne y Arena “opened for us new doors of cinematic perception… More than even a creative breakthrough in the still emerging art form of virtual reality, it viscerally connects us to the hot-button political and social realities of the U.S.-Mexico border.”

Source: Polygon

Zachary Levi to play DC’s ‘Shazam!’

Looks like Zachary Levi is making the leap from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to the DC Extended Universe with his latest casting news. Levi, who’s played Fandral in the Thor trilogy and is known for his role in Chuck, will be playing Shazam. The hero who was originally Captain Marvel. Nothing has been known about the film in the past few years except that Dwayne Johnson might be playing the villainous Black Adam. But we’re getting Shazam! News following the involvement of Lights Out director David F. Sandberg and now with Levi onboard as well. Shooting for the film is starting in a few months so we’re sure hear more. There is no premiere date for it yet but New Line hopes to have the movie out by next year. It’ll also be tied into the bigger DCEU.

Source: io9 + Screen Rant