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Tabletop 360º Display Can be Viewed Glasses-free

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers headed by Yongjun Lim at the 5G Giga Communication Research Laboratory within the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea) is developing a novel tabletop holographic display. The system …

Tags:Holographic Displays| R&D (Research & Development)| Vol 24 - Issue 19| Volumetric Displays

A New Full Color Reflective Display Based on Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers headed by Dan Luo within the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Southern University of Science and Technology (Shenzhen, China) has developed improved Cholesteric Liquid Crystal (CLC) materials …

Tags:China| Cholesteric| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| R&D (Research & Development)| Reflective Display| Vol 24 - Issue 17

New Study on High Pixel Density Clarifies Advantages

by Arthur Berman

A good deal of study was conducted during the 1980s and 1990s into the effects of pixel density on a variety of factors including visual performance, subjective well-being and preference. Most of these studies …

Tags:Visual Ergonomics| Vol 24 - Issue 17

LightSpace 3D Volumetric Displays Are Back

by Arthur Berman

Several years ago, LightSpace Technologies Inc. (Riga, Latvia, Twinsburg, OH and San Jose, CA) offered a 3D volumetric display product. The product was not successful and the company went out of business. The latest …

Tags:Vol 24 - Issue 15| Volumetric Displays

Is Shifted 2D Content Fake 3D?

by Arthur Berman

The cost and complexity of capturing stereoscopic 3D video or of converting conventional 2D video to stereoscopic 3D in post-production can be considerable. With this the case, producers of stereoscopic 3D content occasionally use …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Human Visual System (HVS)| Stereopsis| Stereovision| Vol 24 - Issue 15

Polymer TADF Emitters are Under Development

by Arthur Berman

Researchers from the Technical University in Dresden (Dresden, Germany) have developed a new method to produce polymer Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence (TADF) emitting molecules. The new materials exhibit quantum yields substantially higher than previous …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| TADF| Vol 24 - Issue 13

Disney Helps Enable Virtual Baseball

by Arthur Berman

One reality of virtual reality is that wearing a HMD renders the user practically blind to the surrounding real world. A second reality is that it is very difficult to convey to the wearer …

Tags:Disney| Sports and Stadiums| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 13

An Improved 2D-Autostereoscopic 3D Display Technology

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers led by Haiyu Chen at the State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China) is developing a switchable 2D – autostereoscopic 3D …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| Large Display Monitor| LC Materials (Liquid Crystal)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 11

LED Device Under Development that both Emits and Detects Light

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers lead by Moonsub Shim, a professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, IL), is developing a novel type of LED. The so-called nanorod LED is …

Tags:LED| Novel Displays| Quantum Dots| R&D (Research & Development)| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Qualcomm Debuts Snapdragon 835 VR Developer Kit Headset

by Arthur Berman

Qualcomm debuted the company’s Snapdragon 835 VR Developer Kit (VRDK) headset at the recent GDC 2017 (Game Developers Conference). The headset is not a consumer device. Rather, the VRDK is primarily intended to serve …

Tags:Foveated Rendering| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 09

New Materials Developed with Potential for Multi-Color OLEDs

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers headed by Professor Youhei Takeda of the Department of Applied Chemistry within the Graduate School of Engineering at Osaka University (Osaka, Japan) have created multi-color MechanoChromic Luminescent (MCL) materials that …

Tags:Japan| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Materials| TADF| Vol 24 - Issue 09

Shima AR Glasses Look Like……Glasses

by Arthur Berman

Laforge Optical Inc. (San Mateo, CA) is developing a product line of augmented reality smart glasses. The glasses overlay video content derived from the wearer’s iOS or Android smartphone as images in the wearer’s …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 09