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The HoloPlayer One Lets Users Interact with “3D Holograms”

by Arthur Berman

A startup called Looking Glass Factory (Brooklyn, NY) has debuted a display device called the HoloPlayer One. The device has been widely reported in the popular press as a “hologram viewing device.” Let me …

Tags:Gesture Recognition| Light Field Displays| Novel Displays| Vol 25 - Issue 02

The Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headset

by Arthur Berman

Mixed Reality capability has been included as part of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. Mixed Reality is Microsoft’s name for the combination of augmented reality and virtual reality. In conjunction with the release …

Tags:Acer| Mixed Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 48

Another Odd and Oddly Appealing Display-Based Product

by Arthur Berman

About a month ago, I wrote a subscription newsletter article about a new display-based product called Moi that I described as “Odd but Oddly Appealing.” Although it was not my plan that this article …

Tags:AMOLED| Vol 25 - Issue 01| Wearables

The Garmin HUD+

by Arthur Berman

The HUD+ product represents an effort by Garmin Ltd. (Olathe, KS) to “bring the futuristic heads-up display technology found in some luxury vehicles to the masses.” Although the HUD+ has been on the market …

Tags:Automotive| Garmin| Head Up Displays HUDs| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 48

Māoï Developing a HUD-Based Dive Computer

by Arthur Berman

Thalatoo (Montpellier, France) is developing a unique display-based recreational dive computer product called M?oï. The device incorporates a monocular HUD that presents important dive related information out in front of the diver. The add-on …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Sports and Stadiums| Vol 24 - Issue 47

Solar Tectic LLC

Solar-Tectic Developing Material Technologies Having Display Applications

by Arthur Berman

Solar-Tectic LLC (Briarcliff Manor, NY) is promoting a technology called Low Temperature single Crystal Silicon (LT1CS). The primary focus of the technology is in solar cells but use also extends to display applications. This …

Tags:Glass| Large Display Monitor| LTPS TFT| Mobile Display Monitor| Sapphire| TFT| Vol 24 - Issue 46

The Fove Eye Tracking HMD Reaches Production

by Arthur Berman

The Fove headset has at last become a real product. Distinguishing features of the HMD developed by Fove, Inc. (San Mateo, CA) include eye tracking capability and the use of foveated image rendering. Meko …

Tags:Foveated Rendering| Gaze Recognition| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 45

An Odd and Oddly Appealing New Display Product

by Arthur Berman

The principle offices of the Nissha Company are in Kyoto, Japan. A new branch of the company has just been formed and it called mui Lab, Inc. Mui Labs has developed an odd and …

Tags:Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| Touch Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 43

Could Graphene Be Used in OLEDs?

by Arthur Berman

The materials used in OLED devices can be very sensitive to oxygen and moisture. As a result, such devices needs to be isolated from the atmosphere. The means typically used to provide a protective …

Tags:Encapsulation| Graphene| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 41

The MovieMask Portable Cinema HMD

by Arthur Berman

MovieMask (Oslo, Norway) is developing the next offerings in the company’s “portable cinema” line of HMD products. The original idea behind the MovieMask was the thought that “today’s media consumption is more and more …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 40

The Globe: A Spherical Volumetric Display

by Arthur Berman

Catleytech (London, UK) is developing a spherical volumetric display. It is formed from a ring of rotating LEDs and depends on the persistence of vision effect. The imaging system in the Globe includes a …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Large Display Monitor| LED| Vol 24 - Issue 39