Year: 2022

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New Study Projects VR Revenue to Reach $28.8 Billion by 2026

by Bob Raikes

What They Say ARtillery Intelligence has published its forecast for VR revenues, with a view that it will more than triple from $8.3 billion in 2021 to $28.8 billion in 2026, a 28.3% compound annual growth rate. Consumer spending (hardware …

Tags:Forecasts| Market Data| Virtual Reality

Amazon on Announced a New Hardware Partnership with TCL

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TCL has launched a new series of TVs based on Amazon’s Fire TV OS. The 55″ and 65″ sets will be sold in Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK. What We Think …

Tags:Amazon| Android| Google| Operating Systems| Smart TV

Apple Is Working on a 16-Inch iPad (rumour)

by Bob Raikes

What They Say According to The Information, Apple is developing a 16″ iPad that could be released at the end of 2023. There were no details of the display that might be used. What …

Tags:Apple| tablets

LG Display Reports Q3 results

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG Display released its Q3 financials and held its earnings call. Revenues were up 21% QoQ, but down 6% YoY at $4.75 billion and income was 11% down with an operating …

Tags:Financial Data| LG Displays (LGD)

VR/AR/MR on the Cusp of Volume Adoption – Part 2

by Barry Young

Yesterday, I introduced AR and its applications and today I’ll look some other aspects of AR and VR. The VR/AR category was expanded to include “MR” (Mixed Reality) also called “MX” (or passthrough AR – …

Tags:Augmented Reality| eMagin| Kopin| Microdisplays| OLEDs| Virtual Reality

VR/AR/MR on the Cusp of Volume Adoption – Part 1

by Barry Young

With the slowdown in smartphone, IT and TV demand, VR/AR/MR is gaining center stage in the display industry, especially now that Apple has committed to its first two products. Through 2022, Meta’s Quest VR headset …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Epson| | Virtual Reality

Sony A7R V Has 3 Megapixel Viewfinder

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sony has released its latest A7 series mirrorless camera that has a 60MP sensor and, for the first time in the series, can capture 8K video. However, our attention was drawn …

Tags:Cameras| sony| Viewfinders

Samsung Electronics Down but Still Makes $7.65 billion

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung announced its Q2 2022 result and saw profits decline 23% but still came out at $7.65 billion and revenues were $54.15 billion. The company still expects record revenues for the …

Tags:Financial Data| Samsung