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HTC Zoe Share Is Live On The Web, The One Can’t Come Soon Enough

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One of the more impressive aspects of the HTC One launch was its Zoe camera, which passively combines video clips and stills into a short presentation set to music. Zoe was inspired by the word ‘zoetrope’, a mechanism used to convey story or meaning through motion.

HTC’s interpretation of that concept takes users’ content and edits it together to form what appears to be a linear sequence of events. The Zoe Share website, which went up over the last few days, already has several user-submitted entries, glimpses of lives in both moving and static forms. One example, a group of girls at Seattle’s Pike Place Market, is largely ineffective at telling a tale; it is a merely a series of vanity shots interspersed with scenes of fish and macaroni. The music is all wrong; the edits jarring and wooden.

Another example, an 18th birthday party, is more focused, and captures meaningful moments set to a more engaging soundtrack. It was in this one I saw the great potential for Zoe, especially if HTC can bring this to a wider audience.

With a launch price of $149.99, the HTC One is going to be a hard sell against the Samsung Galaxy S IV, but features like Zoe, which connected with me before I’ve even had a chance to play with the device at home, speaks to how the company has grown in the past year.

For a demo of HTC Zoe, check out our hands-on with the One.
Via: Droid-life

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