Year: 2022

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Wider Still & Wider…

by Bob Raikes

In yesterday’s Display Daily, I mentioned that the Invidis Yearbook had alerted me to an interesting development by Microsoft. The firm has included a new arrangement for Teams displays called Front Row that is …

Tags:Aspect Ratios| Interactive Displays| LCD Panels| Microsoft

Shoot in 8K. Watch in 8K

by Artem Alekseenko

Samsung Electronics UK Ltd. has announced that you can claim a complimentary Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra when purchasing any 2022 Neo QLED 8K TV between 20th July and 16th August 2022[1]. Equipped with ultra-sharp …

Tags:QLED| Samsung

Is the VR Industry Settling on a Next Gen Architecture?

by Chris Chinnock

Based on recent news reports, it sure seems like the VR industry is moving away from Fresnel lenses to Pancake optics and switching from glass-based OLEDs or LCDs to microdisplays based on OLED-on-silicon. And …

Tags:Kopin| Microdisplays| OLEDs| Optics| sony

Links Week Ending 29th July 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. Meta bumps prices of Quest 2 headsets ahead …

Tags:Apple| Asus| Desktop Monitors| Digital Signage| DOOH| | Game Playing| JCDecaux| Laser| LED| MMD (AOC Philips)| Patents| Pricing| Sky| Smartphones| Virtual Reality

China and TV manufacturers push MicroLED over LCD

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Invidis reported some information from Omdia on the LED market in Q1 2022. The report forecast that the average pitch ( which is calculated by the weighted arithmetic mean assuming the …

Tags:Digital Signage| LED| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Video Walls

MScreen: Portable 32:9 displays on Kickstarter

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Prad.de reported on a Chinese company, MScreen, a subsidiary of the Chinese smartphone manufacturer Tinno Mobile that is running a Kickstarter campaign for the development of two displays. The first is …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| USB Monitors

Alaska Airlines to launch E Ink based baggage tags

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Alaska Airlines is the next carrier to try using E Ink-based electronic baggage tags that it plans to make available initially to 2,500 regular flyers from San Jose, USA. Other frequent …

Tags:Aviation| E Ink| USA

Palomaki Rips Up a QD-OLED TV

by Bob Raikes

Our own Peter Palomaki tore down a Samsung S95B QD-OLED TV. Teasingly, in this part one video, he showed that he would be using a UV flashlight – a test we had hoped to …

Tags:QD OLEDs| Samsung| Teardowns| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Meta May Acquire AdHawk Micro

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg reports that Meta Platforms Inc is considering buying AdHawk Microsystems Inc of Canada. which has an eye tracking system that does not use cameras and is claimed to be more …

Tags:Augmented Reality| | Gaze Recognition| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

Viture Partnered with Harman and Layer For Viewing Glasses

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A couple of weeks ago, Viture announced that it had partnered with Harman and Layer to make some new glasses that are available with an optional neckband that includes directional speakers. …

Tags:Android| Consoles| Game Playing| SmartGlasses