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Real-time VVC/H.266 UHD Encoder Announced by Spin Digital

by Artem Alekseenko

Spin Digital announced the availability of the first version of a real-time VVC/H.266 encoder designed for live UHD (4K and 8K) streaming and broadcasting applications. The new VVC encoder can reduce the bitrate at …

Tags:Encoders| VVC (H.266)

Games Market to Decline in 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Highlighting a research report from Ampere Analysis, Protocol Entertainment dug into the tough coming year for the games business, especially console makers Microsoft and Sony. What We Think As I have …

Tags:Consoles| Forecasts| Game Playing| Market Data

First QD-based MicroLED Now in MP

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Leyard in China put out a press release highlighting that it has put into mass production a display based on the NPQD R1 MicroLED device developed with Saphlux (in which Leyard …

Tags:Leyard| MicroLED| Planar

Links Week Ending 5th August 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 end of this week. Philips launches 2022 LCD TVs with Android 11, …

Tags:Codecs| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| HP Inc| Iiyama| Interactive Displays| Italy| Lenovo| OLED Notebooks| Patents| Philips| Repair| Samsung| storage| Streaming Video| Testing| TVs (TV Sets)| VOD

Xiaomi has New AR Glasses Based on Sony OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say China-based Apple wannabe, Xiaomi, has new AR glasses in a series that it is calling Mijia (a name also used for other products). There is a single display and dual cameras …

Tags:Augmented Reality| China| Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Xiaomi

VR Used in Intercontinental Surgery

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The BBC reported that conjoined twins in Brazil were successfully separated with the surgical team in Brazil being joined by specialists in London connected to the operating theatre using virtual reality. …

Tags:Medical| Virtual Reality

UCIe Adds Nvidia, but Still Not Apple

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We published a pointer to an article about the UCIe chip interface New Chip Interconnect is ‘Incredibly Important’ back in the spring. Notable as missing from the long list of the …

Tags:Interfaces| Nvidia| Semiconductors| Standards

Asus to launch its Zenbook 17 Fold OLED laptop at IFA

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Asus will be at IFA to launch its Zenbook 17 Fold, a 17.3″ 1920 x 2560 (3:4) notebook that can also operate as dual landscape displays. The display is certified to …

Tags:Asus| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| OLED Notebooks

HannStar Display posts small profit for 2Q22

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Congratulations to Hannstar that actually got to a profit in Q2 of $630K although revenues were down by 9% from Q1 at $150 million with a gross margin of 11%. Second-quarter …

Tags:Financial Data| Hannstar (Hannspree)| LCD Fabs

Foveated Video Rendering Developed with Low Latency

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Scientists at Stanford have developed a “foveated” compression system that works in conjunction with gaze tracking to deliver two streams of video data at lower resolutions for non-foveal and higher for …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Human Visual System (HVS)| Mixed Reality| R&D (Research & Development)| Virtual Reality

Skyworth VR Releases PANCAKEXR Brand and New VR Products

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Skyworth has introduced new VR headset that use, as you would guess from the name, pancake optics instead of fresnel lenses so that the weight is just 189gms. The Pancake 1Pro …

Tags:MiniLED| Skyworth| Virtual Reality