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Links Week Starting 31st January 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 first part of this week. Ricoh’s new Theta X 360º camera features …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Google| Optics| Samsung| Small Medium Panel Supply| Smartphones| TVs (TV Sets)

Former Samsung Executive in Patent Suit against the Company

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Just a bit of industry gossip, but Ahn Seung-ho, who was a Samsung Electronics vice president and headed its IP centre for 10 years and who headed the Samsung negotiations to …

Tags:Litigation| Patents| Samsung

New Epson Projectors Boast High Output – Low Size

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Epson launched some new high brightness LCD projectors using 1.03″ 1920 x 1200 3LCD engines and from 13K to 20K Ansi Lumens (and CLO, of course). The units have laser light …

Tags:Epson| Laser Projectors| LCD Projectors (3LCD)

Will the Schemes for the Metaverse ‘Gang Agley’?

by Bob Raikes

‘The best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley’* seems an appropriate start to an article in Burns Week when it applies to the production as well as the topic of today’s …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Health and Safety| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Tooz & JBD Demonstrate new RGB Glasses

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Optics.org reported that at the Photonics West last week, JBD said that it has teamed up with Tooz Technologies and made a public demo using RGB 0.13″ panels in a 5mm …

Tags:Cameras| Germany| Microdisplays| MicroLED| SmartGlasses

Magic Leap Details Disclosed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Magic Leap was at Photonics West and gave some new information and a ‘sneak peek’ at its new headsets. The headset is said to have a weight down from 316g to …

Tags:Augmented Reality

Corning Optimises Glass for Waveguides

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Corning has a new glass formulation that has a refractive index of 2.0 and is intended to be used in waveguides for XR applications (up from 1.8 and 1.9 in previous …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Corning| Glass| Optics| Virtual Reality

ViewSonic OLEDs Update (of sorts)

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Last week, we spotted news of a couple of ViewSonic OLED monitors, (Viewsonic OLED Monitors Slipped By Me….) but when we tracked back to the original ViewSonic source, the news had …

Tags:CES 2022| Desktop Monitors| OLEDs| ViewSonic

JCD Still Behind 2019, but DOOH Growing

by Bob Raikes

What They Say JCDecaux reported its full year financial data and highlighted that while its overall business grew 18.7% year on year in 2021 to reach €2.74 billion, with Q4 up 37.5%. However DOOH …

Tags:DOOH| Financial Data| JCDecaux

Eizo: New ColorEdge monitors with IPS black panel – Maybe!

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Eizo has announced two new ColorEdge professional grade monitors (27-inch CG2700X (3840 x 2160) and CG2700S (2560 x 1440)) with integrated calibration and they are covered in its press releases. A …

Tags:Colour Critical Monitors| Eizo| IPS| LCD Panels

LGD Adds Some Detail to Financials

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG Display published its results for Q4 2021 (LG Display Reports Fourth Quarter 2021 Results) and also held an earnings call to give more detail. The call started with a look …

Tags:Automotive| Financial Data| Large LCD Supply| LG Displays (LGD)| Market Data| OLEDs