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Samsung Shows Rink Hand Held VR Controller at CES

by Arthur Berman

Samsung Creative Lab is run by Samsung Corporation as an in-house incubator to let “company employees play with ambitious ideas and turn them into full-fledged startups.” Working at the CSL for a full year, …

Tags:CES 2016| Game Controllers| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 01

New HP Product Offers Medical Visualization in Head Tracked 3D

by Arthur Berman

HP has announced plans to offer a version of the company’s Zvr 3D display system that will be targeted for medical applications. This is accomplished by integrating software developed by EchoPixel, Inc. (Mountain View, …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| HP Inc| Medical| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 01

4K Stitching Possible in Real Time

by Arthur Berman

A team headed by Dr. Rehan Hafiz in the Department of Electrical Engineering of the National University of Sciences and Technology (Islamabad, Pakistan) has developed a “unified scheme” for seamlessly stitching together multiple videos …

Tags:Blend & Warp| Projector Stacks

ETRI Developing Holographic Imaging Technology

by Arthur Berman

The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea) or ETRI has demonstrated the current state of development of its so-called “tabletop holographic display” technology. The occasion for this demonstration was the 2015 Creative …

Tags:Holographic Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 52

Cardboard Camera

Introducing Google’s Cardboard Camera App

by Arthur Berman

As a follow on to its Cardboard viewer and associated Cardboard app, Google has developed, and is now offering, a new virtual reality content creation tool for Android smartphones. Having taken about a year …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 50

Microsoft Developing “Smart Ring” Technology

by Arthur Berman

Here are two problems. The first is that some devices (think smartwatches and wristbands) have a display screen with a really small surface area. The limiting case of this condition is the smart glass …

Tags:Gesture Recognition| Microsoft| Vol 22 - Issue 50| Wearables

FingerAngle

A Touchscreen Technology that Can Determine the Angle of Your Finger

by Arthur Berman

Qeexo, Co. (Mountain View, CA), a spin out of Carnegie Mellon University, has developed an algorithm that allows a device to estimate the angle of the user’s finger relative to the plane of the …

Tags:Android| iOS (Apple)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Touch| Vol 22 - Issue 48| Wearables

A “Goldilocks” Smartphone-Based VR Headset

by Arthur Berman

Virtual reality is well on its way to becoming a commercial reality for consumers. None-the-less, the hardware choices currently available to consumers are somewhat bipolar. In the context of this article, bipolar refers to …

Tags:Smartphones| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 48

The Nissan Smart Rear View Mirror

by Arthur Berman

A new-to-me display application was reported in the news during this past week. It is an improvement to the conventional automotive rear view mirror. The need for an improvement can be illustrated by offering …

Tags:Automotive| Cameras| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 46

An Unusual Means is Used to Capture 3D in the Visionsense 4mm Camera

by Arthur Berman

Visionsense Corp. (Philadelphia, PA) has developed a high definition 3D camera based on an unconventional technology. The need for an unusual 3D camera is a consequence of the fact that Visionsense products are a …

Tags:3D Cameras| Medical| Vol 22 - Issue 46

Recent Results on Organic Light Emitting Transistors

by Arthur Berman

A publication from a team at the Institute for the Study of Nanostructured Materials (Bologna, Italy) reports recent developments relating to Organic Light-Emitting Transistors (OLETs). These are a type of organic device that combines …

Tags:Italy| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLETs (Organic Light Emitting Transistors)| Vol 22 - Issue 44

ARHT Media Commercializing an Interactive Display Technology

by Arthur Berman

ARHT Media Inc. (Toronto, Canada) has developed and is commercializing a display system that the company has named Augmented Reality Holographic Technology (ARHT). The first point to note is that the term holographic is …

Tags:Holographic Displays| Projectors| Vol 22 - Issue 44