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by Alan Spencer
Apple’s iPhone 7 is only officially classified as surviving immersion at a depth of one metre (3.3 feet) for 30 minutes. However, an incident occured during an ice fishing trip in Russia that showed …
Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 04| Waterproof Displays
by Alan Spencer
Pilgrims travelling between Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia are now able to top up and recharge their phones at any of forty ZyBrid Projected Capacitive Technology (PCT) touch sensors from Zytronic. The distance …
Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Touch| Vol 24 - Issue 04
by Alan Spencer
In some case. the new LG Ultrafine 5K Displays that LG launched to go with the new Apple Mac Book Pro (More News of LG’s Macbook Monitors) appear to be affected by interference caused …
Tags:Apple| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 04| Wi-Fi
by Alan Spencer
The Panasonic 3-Chip DLP Solid Shine laser projector (PT-RQ32K) has quad pixel drive technology and creates 4K+ images. Two units have been added to Paragon’s rental stock with the expectation that these will find …
Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Projectors| Rental and Staging| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 24 - Issue 04
by Alan Spencer
Basemark will release the VRScore which enables evaluation of PC VR-readiness. The benchmark suite includes a performance test that stresses your system’s capabilities and a latency test that measures your HMD’s display latency. Basemark …
Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Testing| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 04
by Alan Spencer
This year’s Spring Meeting of the Society for Information Display Mid-Europe Chapter, SID-ME 2017, with the topic “Wearables and Projection Displays” will be held from 13th to 14th March in Dresden, Germany. The symposium …
Tags:Back Panel| Events| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Microdisplays| SID Society| Vol 24 - Issue 04| Wearables
by Alan Spencer
Google has lifted the restrictions on developers wishing to develop apps for their Daydream VR platform. In order to keep the standards high, Google has issued a “Quality Requirements” guide. Developers can opt-in to …
Tags:AR/VR| Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 04
by Alan Spencer
The newly upgraded planetarium dome at Maloka Centro Interactivo in Bogotá, Colombia, reopened its doors after a renovation project transformed the 18-year-old venue into a Sciss Colorspace theatre. The new theatre is the first …
Tags:Back Panel| Christie| Dome Projection| Large Display Monitor| Planetariums| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 24 - Issue 04
by Alan Spencer
In the future, watching UltraHD on YouTube will require support for Google’s VP9 codec, which Apple has so far not supported. For a decade, content providers have used MPEG4 (and its sub-classes such as …
Tags:Apple| Codecs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| MPEG4 (H.264 AVC)| Vol 24 - Issue 04| VP9| YouTube
by Alan Spencer
Novaled’s new facility will be located in the north of Dresden, and will comprise a renovated old mill that will be turned into an office building and a new 110 metre long R&D plant …
Tags:AMOLED| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 04
by Alan Spencer
The new competence centre in Dreiech has now opened (NEC Adds Showroom & Training Centre in Germany). The solutions displayed in the new centre include a 2 × 2 video wall of four MultiSync …
Tags:Germany| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| NEC| Vol 24 - Issue 04
by Alan Spencer
Opera TV and Zinwell have announced a partnership in Over-the-Top (OTT) TV capabilities targeting service provider set-top-boxes in Asia-Pacific. The integration of the Opera TV SDK on Zinwell set-top-boxes will enable service provider partners …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 04
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