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What next? 22 emerging technologies to watch in 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Economist looked at 22 emerging technologies that could see significant developments in 2022. Only two are significant for displays, the first being the possible development of VR headsets for exercise …

Tags:display technology| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Foldables are 12% of Samsung’s US sales

by Bob Raikes

What They Say EINNews quoted Counterpoint Research data on weekly sales of smartphones in the US which highlighted that 12% of Samsung’s total smartphone sales came from foldable smartphones. That is up from 0.6% …

Tags:Foldable Devices| Market Data| Samsung| Smartphone Market| USA

The Case for Screen Time

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A writer on a fatherhood blog has made a case for allowing children to enjoy screen time partly on the basis that with the rapid rate of development in the world …

Tags:Game Playing| The Metaverse

Is Niantic making its own AR smart glasses?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Niantic, the firm behind the Pokémon Go phenomenon, and a spin-out from Google in 2010, has launched a new development kit for AR. Although executives of the firm have spoken negatively …

Tags:Augmented Reality| The Metaverse

VIZIO reports 3Q 2021 results – Services Growing

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Vizio released its Q3 result and it highlighted that the firm made a gross profit of $57.3 million from its subscription and advertising services, compared to just $25.6 million on its …

Tags:Advertising| Financial Data| Smart TV| Vizio

Apple Says It Will Fix Face ID Failure on Third-Party Screen Repairs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported recently on problems for third party repairers after failures with Face ID after the change of displays (iFixit confirms iPhone 13 disables Face ID after third-party screen repair). However …

Tags:Apple| Right to Repair| Smartphones| warranty

Mojo Vision Developing NanoLEDs

by Bob Raikes

Two years ago, Arthur wrote an article about Mojo Vision (Small Thinking at Mojo Vision May Lead to Big Developments in AR). Since then we’ve mentioned the firm a few times, but the DSCC …

Tags:Contact Lens Display| MicroLED| R&D (Research & Development)

Links Week Ending 12th November 2021

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 second part of this week. TSMC, Sony to Open $7 Billion Chip …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Field Monitors| Interfaces| MiniLED| Semiconductors| Smart TV| sony| TSMC| UK (United Kingdom)

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Acer Doing Better Still – Especially in US Dollars

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Acer said that it hit its highest October revenue for seven years, up 9.8% year on year TO NT$28.01 billion ($1.06 billion) while the year to the end of October is …

Tags:Acer| Financial Data

Infocomm As Bad as You Can Imagine for Attendance

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The DailyDooh, which rarely misses the chance to ‘kick a man when he’s down’, reported that attendence at the recent Infocomm 21 event was just 7,335, below earlier estimates. There were …

Tags:Covid-19| Infocomm 2021

Spain is “unique UHD test lab”

by Bob Raikes

What They Say An executive from Cellnex Telecom, who is also VP of the UHD Spain Association has been quoted by Advanced Television as saying that: “Spain is a unique UHD test laboratory for …

Tags:Broadcast| Spain| UltraHD & 4K