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North American OTT TV revenues to double

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digital TV Research forecast that North American OTT TV revenues will continue to grow and will reach $94 billion in 2026, nearly double the $49 billion seen in 2020. $88 billion …

Tags:North America| OTT Video| SVOD

Is Kura Too Good to be True?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A hat tip to DSCC’s weekly subscription newsletter for pointing me to a blog and interview with Kelly Peng of Kura, a company developing some AR glasses that have very (too?) …

Tags:Augmented Reality| MicroLED

Sharp to Sell its Stake in Sakai Display Products

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Various websites have reported that Sharp has sold all its shares in Sakai Display Products Corp, the G10 fab that was at one time the jewel in its crown as an …

Tags:Investment| Japan Display Inc (JDI)| Large LCD Supply| sharp

3M & Pegatron Working on VR Headset with Folded Optics

by Bob Raikes

3M has often been the source of real innovations in the display field, so I was surprised to stumble upon a new technology for optics that seemed to have slipped by me when it …

Tags:3M (MMM)| Mixed Reality| ODMs & OEMs| Optics| Virtual Reality

Home Electronics Markt Index Q1-4/2020

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The GfU put out its data for home electronics sales in 2020 in Germany. The fully detailed information can be downloaded here. However here are some items we picked out. TV …

Tags:CE (Consumer Electronics) Data| Desktop Monitors| Germany| Market Data| Notebooks| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Smartphone Market| tablets| TVs (TV Sets)

ISE Clarifies June Policy

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Mike Blackman of ISE put out a statement with details of the organisers’ policies for the event which is still due to go ahead from 1st to 4th June this year. …

Tags:Covid-19| Events

Sigmaintell Forecasts Panel Price Rises for March

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Sigmaintell Research of China published its Large LCD panel price trend report for February and forecast that all prices will be up again in March. The rises are being helped by …

Tags:Large LCD Supply| Market Data| Pricing

LG Stalled on Rollable Phone and Sells only 10 Rollable TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say An unconfirmed report in the Korea JoongAng Daily said that LG has only sold ten 65″ rollable OLED TVs in Korea in the last quarter of 2020. The sets, in the …

Tags:Foldable Devices| Korea| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs

A New Headset is about to Debut from JVC

by Arthur Berman

JVC Kenwood has announced the upcoming availability of the company’s enterprise focused, extended reality headset, the HMD-VS1W. The headset is intended to be connected to and operate in conjunction with an external computer. A …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Japan| JVC| Mixed Reality

More Education, On Demand

by Len Scrogan

As if anyone doesn’t already sense it, everything is changing in the education world due to The Rona. While I have a pretty good handle on what’s happening in the U.S. on those counts, …

Tags:Education| Next Action

VR and the Virtual: SXSW 2021 Online Preview, Part 2

by Len Scrogan

In today’s installment, I continue to offer a preview ‘sampling’ of some of the most intriguing VR, virtual production, and virtual event use cases slated as presentations for SXSW Online, along with some supporting …

Tags:Education| Virtual Reality| Virtual Sets