Year: 2021

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Commercial AR Headsets to Grow Rapidly per IDC

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Wall St Journal had a round-up of recent announcements including a useful forecast for AR headsets from IDC. We recreated the chart from the data. One of the bits of …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Forecasts| IDC| Market Data

Hologate Sees Return of LBE Visitors

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Hologate VR, based in Germany and a developer of LBE VR, said that its number of users has now got back to 90K per week, which is the level of early …

Tags:Covid-19| Location-based Entertainment (LBE)| Virtual Reality

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Panels or Sets?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In the course of a recent correspondence with Ross Young of DSCC, he mentioned that sometimes we have referred to forecasts for foldable devices that are higher or different from those …

Tags:Foldable Devices| Market Data| Smartphones

MicroLED IP: Startups and Newcomers are Challenging the Heavyweights

by Artem Alekseenko

Joining Apple, Samsung, LG, XDisplay, PlayNitride, Facebook and others, newcomers are accelerating microLED patenting activity. OUTLINE: IP landscape:8900+ patents filed by close to 480 organizations now represent a cumulated total of 4093 families selected …

Tags:Apple| | MicroLED| Patents| Samsung

LG Board of Directors Guillotines Moribund Smart Phone Business

by Ken Werner

In 1789 Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, a member of the French National Assembly, spearheaded the passing of a law that required all death sentences to be carried out by “means of a machine,” so decapitations …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Market Data| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Smartphones

Bravia Core Content Now Available for Bravia XR TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say As expected, following the Bravia announcements at CES, Sony has now announced that its Bravia Core content service has now been included with its 2021 Bravia XR TVs.(Sony Reveals 2021 TV …

Tags:sony| Streaming Video| TVs (TV Sets)

VITEC Acquires Exterity to Create Global IPTV and Digital Signage Powerhouse

by Artem Alekseenko

VITEC, a worldwide leader in IP video streaming solutions, today announced the strategic acquisition of Exterity Limited, the award-winning, market-leading provider of integrated IPTV, digital signage and user engagement technologies. The move signals VITEC’s …

Tags:Digital Signage| IPTV

Automotive Market & Display Drivers From Sigmaintell

by Bob Raikes

Today, I’m covering two separate topics that are combined only because talks on the topics formed the second half of the Sigmaintell/SID China event that I attended a couple of weeks ago. I reported …

Tags:Automotive| China| Display Drivers| Forecasts| Market Data

UBI Sees UTG Dominating in Foldable Covers

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In digging around about the Omdia OLED materials market article today, we spotted a forecast from UBI research that we missed a few days ago on the Elec. UBI said that …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Glass| OLED Materials