Year: 2022

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BOE demonstrates a new foldable OLED

by Bob Raikes

What They Say GizChina reported that BOE has shown a prototype flexible OLED (f-OLED) that can be in- and out-folded to make an N shape. It has a maximum diagonal of 12.3″ when open, …

Tags:BOE| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices

Attention, the next 800 meters are LED!

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Invidis has reported that Samsung has used an 800 metre long LED advert along a motorway in Utrecht in the Netherlands. There are two large (106.5 m²) screens and a large …

Tags:LED| Netherlands| Outdoor Displays

India PC Market Shipped a Record 14.8 Million Units in 2021, According to IDC

by Artem Alekseenko

The India traditional PC market, inclusive of desktops, notebooks, and workstations, delivered a strong year with shipment growth of 44.5% year-over-year (YoY) in 2021 (Jan-Dec), according to new data from the International Data Corporation …

Tags:IDC| India| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)

DSCC Highlights Glass Growth

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC published a blog post (free registration needed) that included extracts from its latest display glass report and reported that glass shipments increased by 13% in 2021 to a record level …

Tags:Corning| Glass| Market Data

Analyst: Are the console wars over?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Market researcher Dataxis released its estimates of console sales by Sony and Microsoft in the ‘console wars’, with the result (17 million for Sony, 12 million for Microsoft) suggesting that Sony …

Tags:Consoles| Market Data

Links Week Ending 25th February 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. (Apologies – this should have been …

Tags:Apple| Barco| Dell| Desktop Monitors| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Game Playing| Google| Interactive Displays| Market Data| Materials| Mediatek| Motion Capture| Qualcomm| R&D (Research & Development)| Semiconductor Market| TCL| TVs (TV Sets)| ViewSonic| Wireless

HP and Lenovo Chromebooks expected to support Steam

by Bob Raikes

What They Say 9to5Google spotted that a plan for Chromebooks to support the Steam gaming service might be getting close as it said that Google now has timelines on the implementation. The site found …

Tags:Chromebooks| Game Playing| GPUs| Nvidia

Researchers Taken Facial Recognition in VR to a New Level

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Researchers from Australia, New Zealand and India have used facial recognition technology to use users’ expressions to trigger actions in virtual environments, potentially reducing the need for hand-held controllers. Smiling, frowning …

Tags:face recognition| HMI| R&D (Research & Development)| Virtual Reality