2021 – Page 26 – Display Daily

ActiveLook announced its new “NexT” technology platform.

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The French component maker, Microoled, has announced new sports eyewear technology through its ‘NexT’ technology for AR. The technology is based on a 304 x 256 monochrome microOLED that consumes less …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Microdisplays| OLEDs| Sports and Stadiums

Apple Open to User Repairs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We have been following the Apple repair topic and now the firm has said that it will have a ‘Self Service Repair’ programme that will allow some repairs to devices at …

Tags:Apple| Right to Repair

TCL Rolls Out Technology Demos in Shenzen

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say TCL has shown at its DTC event that it hosted in Shenzen an 8K Inkjet printed OLED display that was co-developed with JOLED and TCL’s CSOT subsidiary. The article suggests that …

Tags:CSOT| InkJet Deposition| MicroLED| OLEDs| TCL

Reports: Samsung and Sony to launch QD-OLED TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Business Korea reported that Sony plans to be one of the first two TV suppliers to use QD-OLED panels from SDC, following Samsung Electronics. The paper reported that Samsung will show …

Tags:QD OLEDs| Samsung| sony

Middle East & Africa Sees Highest Volume of Personal Computing Devices Shipped into the Region for Almost Five Years

by Artem Alekseenko

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) personal computing devices (PCD) market, which is made up of desktops, notebooks, workstations, and tablets, experienced year-on-year growth of 7.3% in the third quarter of 2021 (Q3 2021), …

Tags:Analytics & Tools| IDC| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)

An Unfamiliar Company Offering a Familiar Type of Product

by Arthur Berman

Although this article does report on the development of a new smartglasses product, it is more about the company that designed, manufactures and sells the product. The principle reason that Kifta Technologies caught my …

Tags:Augmented Reality| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Military & Defence

Doogee Rugged Smartphone Has an OLED

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Chinese smartphone maker, Doogee, has a new rugged smartphone on its way. The V20 unit is unusual in that it is claimed to use an AMOLED display. It will be certified …

Tags:Rugged Displays| Smartphones

V-Nova and PresenZ Launch a World-First in VR Movies

by Artem Alekseenko

V-Nova, a leading provider of video compression solutions, announces the release of a movie in the Steam Store showcasing the future of immersive media and metaverse applications. The movie uses V-Nova’s ultra-efficient point-cloud compression …

Tags:Movies & Content| V-Nova| Virtual Reality

Lucid Motors Includes a 34″ Curved Display

by Bob Raikes

What They Say IEEE Spectrum had an interesting article on a new high end electric car from new maker Lucid Motors of Silicon Valley. The first car from the firm has a 520 mile …

Tags:Automotive| Curved Displays

V-Nova and PresenZ launch world-first in VR movies

by Bob Raikes

What They Say V-Nova and Presenz said that the firms have worked to combine V-Nova’s point-cloud compression technology with a 6DoF volumetric movie format from Presenz. The Presenz volumetric video format uses 3D assets …

Tags:3D software| Codecs| Virtual Reality

Top five to take lion’s share of 1.7BN-strong SVOD market by 2026

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Quoting data from Digital TV Research, RapidTVNews forecast that the top five US SVOD platforms will account for 53% of the global market in 2026. That will mean a combined total …

Tags:Disney| Forecasts| Market Data| Netflix| SVOD

Links Week Ending 19th November 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. The Economist Looks at the Metaverse ($) …

Year: 2021