Year: 2022

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Philips: 4K TVs with OLED EX panel and FreeSync Premium

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG Display made a lot of noise around CES about its OLED EX panels but TV makers have been less enthusiastic about trumpeting the use of the technology. However, the Philips …

Tags:LG Displays (LGD)| OLED TVs| OLEDs| Philips

Links Week Starting 31st January 2022

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 first part of this week. Ricoh’s new Theta X 360º camera features …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Google| Optics| Samsung| Small Medium Panel Supply| Smartphones| TVs (TV Sets)

Former Samsung Executive in Patent Suit against the Company

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Just a bit of industry gossip, but Ahn Seung-ho, who was a Samsung Electronics vice president and headed its IP centre for 10 years and who headed the Samsung negotiations to …

Tags:Litigation| Patents| Samsung

New Epson Projectors Boast High Output – Low Size

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Epson launched some new high brightness LCD projectors using 1.03″ 1920 x 1200 3LCD engines and from 13K to 20K Ansi Lumens (and CLO, of course). The units have laser light …

Tags:Epson| Laser Projectors| LCD Projectors (3LCD)

Will the Schemes for the Metaverse ‘Gang Agley’?

by Bob Raikes

‘The best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley’* seems an appropriate start to an article in Burns Week when it applies to the production as well as the topic of today’s …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Health and Safety| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Tooz & JBD Demonstrate new RGB Glasses

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Optics.org reported that at the Photonics West last week, JBD said that it has teamed up with Tooz Technologies and made a public demo using RGB 0.13″ panels in a 5mm …

Tags:Cameras| Germany| Microdisplays| MicroLED| SmartGlasses

Magic Leap Details Disclosed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Magic Leap was at Photonics West and gave some new information and a ‘sneak peek’ at its new headsets. The headset is said to have a weight down from 316g to …

Tags:Augmented Reality

Corning Optimises Glass for Waveguides

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Corning has a new glass formulation that has a refractive index of 2.0 and is intended to be used in waveguides for XR applications (up from 1.8 and 1.9 in previous …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Corning| Glass| Optics| Virtual Reality

PMA Research All-Displays Tracking Shows Solid Rebound in 2021Q4

by Artem Alekseenko

PMA Research (PMA), the worldwide market information experts on large displays, has published their latest All-Displays sell-through tracking report on professional large-format flat panel displays (32” and larger) and professional projectors (above 500 lumens) …

Tags:large displays| PMA Research