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Meta Pushes the Envelope on HMD Brightness

by Bob Raikes

Meta has been working on many aspects of VR and AR display use for years. At Siggraph this year the firm showed its experiments with pushing the brightness of VR headsets to new levels. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| | HDR - High Dynamic Range| SIGGRAPH| Virtual Reality

Visionox Orders 6th Generation Vertical Vapor Deposition for IT

by Bob Raikes

What They Say According to OLEDnet.com, a news site affiliated with UBI Research, Visionox has ordered G6 vertical vapor deposition machines for R&D on the V3 line from Applied Materials. The line is reported to …

Tags:China| OLEDs| Production Equipment

DCI Adds Another LG LED Cinema

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DCI has approved a new LG LED Display based on a model LDAA012 display device with a Dolby Media Block. The full specification said that the display was created with 6 …

Tags:Cinema| LED Cinema

Superhexa Glasses Use Sony MicroOLEDs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say SuperHexa, a 2020 startup based in Beijing, has new Vision smartglasses with integrated wide (50 megapixel) and telephoto (8 megapixel) cameras. The glasses are available through a funded Indiegogo project and should ship …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Microdisplays| OLEDs| sony

Optoma Introduces Super-bright WUXGA Projectors

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Optoma has three new very high brightness 1920 x 1200 DLP projectors, the ZU1700, ZU1900 and ZU2200 with 17,000 (14,500 Ansi), 19,000 (16,000 Ansi) and 22,000 (18,500 Ansi) lumens of output, …

Tags:Installation Projectors| Optoma| Projectors

Sony DSCs up – although TV & Smartphones Down

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sony posted its financials for its fiscal Q2 to the end of September with a boost in sales and income over last year. The presentation included segmental analysis and forecasts that …

Tags:Cameras| Financial Data| sony| TV Set Market

Holoride wants you to use VR in your Audi

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Holoride of Germany has done a deal to supply an HTC Vive Flow VR headset, a game controller, and an additional safety strap, as well as one year of access to Holoride’s …

Tags:Automotive| Germany| Virtual Reality

Apple TV with Samsung Sets Gets HDR10+ Support

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Up to now, the Apple TV box and the Apple TV+ service have not supported the HDR10+ dynamic metadata protocol developed by Samsung. Apple has tended to support Dolby Vision, which …

Tags:Apple| Google| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Samsung

UBI: the OLED for IT Market is Set to Grow

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Olednet.com published a forecast for IT OLEDs from UBI Research and said that volume would rise to 48.8 million units by 2027 from 9.5 million this year. The OLED market for IT …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Notebooks| OLEDs| tablets

TCL Market Update on TV in Europe

by Bob Raikes

TCL’s Marek Maciejewski shared with us a link to a large number of TCL’s TV and audio training videos and I was especially interested to hear what is going on in the European TV …

Tags:Europe| Market Data| TCL| TV Set Market

China Plans to Export 25 Million VR Headsets by 2026

by Bob Raikes

 What They Say Reuters reports that China has an action plan intended to allow shipments of 25 million HMDs by 2026 with a value of $48 billion under the country’s 14th five year plan. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| China| Forecasts| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Supply Chain| Virtual Reality