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iPhone Assembly Hit by Covid Lockdown

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Economist said that videos have been made of workers fleeing a huge iPhone-assembly plant in Zhengzhou, in central China, after the facility was locked down to contain a covid-19 outbreak. Reuters …

Tags:China| Covid-19| Foxconn (Honhai)| iPhone| Supply Chain

Microsoft Hololens Progress Reviewed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The WSJ looked at the history of the development of Microsoft’s Hololens project. The paper said that more than 100 members of staff have left the team (which has been over …

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

Links Week Starting 31st October 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. For the next couple of weeks, we …

Tags:Aviation| Corning| Desktop Monitors| Distributors| Events| Financial Data| Flight Information (FIDs)| Game Playing| LED| Mergers & Acquisitions| OLED Materials| OLED TVs| Oxide TFTs| Patents| Philips| Pricing| R&D (Research & Development)| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| sony| TADF| TVs (TV Sets)| UK (United Kingdom)

Links Week Starting 7th November 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. For the next couple of weeks, we …

Tags:AUO| Automotive| AVOD| Display Drivers| Keyboards| OLED TVs| Qualcomm| Video Quality| Vizio

Volvo EX90 EV to get Tesla-style vertical touchscreen

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Volvo EX90 electric SUV will include a vertical touchscreen that shows navigation, media playback and phone functions along with other commonly used actions. There is also a rectangular driving display.  There …

Tags:Automotive| Touch Displays

The TV Interface Is the Key To Pretty Much Everything

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TVRev.com published an interesting article on the development of front end interfaces for smart TVs and highlighted that Vizio is adopting the ‘Tiles’ system from SpringServe for its Smartcast interface. The …

Tags:Operating Systems| Smart TV| Vizio

Omniply Stick and Peel Process: A Substitute for LLO

by Barry Young

OLED flexible panel makers use a glass carrier to hold the polyimide (P)I substrate during the array process and subsequently during the deposition process. Between the PI and the glass carrier is a sacrificial …

Tags:Encapsulation| OLEDs| Production Equipment

PMA Research All-Displays Tracking Shows Strong Recovery in the Projector Market

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:Analytics & Tools| PMA Research

Scanning the Horizon: SXSWedu 2023

by Len Scrogan

The annual SXSWedu conference typically serves as the most innovative, fresh, and predictive venue for envisioning the future of the ed-tech marketplace. This year, the SXSWedu® Conference & Festival will be held in face-to-face …

Tags:Education| Game Playing

 Meta Quest Pro Hands-On Impressions! | Tested.com

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Adam Savage’s Tested had a look at the new Meta Quest Pro for a YouTube review. The first point made was that on the Quest 2, all the optics, processing and …

Tags:| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality