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Siggraph 2018 Show Floor Roundup

by Bob Raikes

Christie had no new products at the show but had a number of demos of projection mapping, its video over IP technology and one in particular that caught our attention. The company has a …

Siggraph 2018 Experience Hall Roundup

by Bob Raikes

The Experience Hall was for start-ups and research projects (like the SID i-Zone) and we found a number of display-related projects at different stages of development. FairLight is a research project from Japan that …

JPR Looks at the Industry, the Cloud and Gives Awards and Prizes

by Bob Raikes

Jon Peddie Research held its annual Siggraph Press lunch and we went along. Peddie himself opened the proceedings by giving a very brief outline of the development of the CG market, which is doing …

Rdot Displays Is Bringing A New Ultra-low-powered And Flexible Display Technology To The Market

by Bob Raikes

The Swedish startup company Rdot Displays has developed a novel reflective display technology that is manufactured with conventional printing processes (Display Week iZone Highlights). We reported on the company after we saw its displays …

Dell Gaming Monitors Support Overclocking

by Bob Raikes

Dell has two new TN-based gaming monitors, the 27″ S2719DGF which has 2560 x 1440 resolution and the 24″ S2419HGF which has a FullHD panel. They both have high refresh rates with overclocking options. …

Tags:Dell| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 32

Siggraph 2018 Introduction

by Bob Raikes

I have pencilled in a trip to the annual Siggraph conference for something like fifteen of the last twenty years, but each year there was a reason why I was unable to get there. …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Siggraph 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 32

LDM Product Roundup Vol 25 #32

by Bob Raikes

Acer was among the companies that confirmed that its Predator Orion PCs for gamers would support the new Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics cards. The Orion 5000 is designed for the serious gamer, while the …

Nvidia Changes the Game in Ray Tracing

by Bob Raikes

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang gave a long talk at the Siggraph show and after showing a great set of images from computer games and PC renderings over the years, he pointed out that this year …

StarVR Headset is Immersive

by Bob Raikes

StarVR is a company that we have been watching for a while, having first seen its VR headset at IFA in 2016. At the time, we weren’t over impressed with the quality. However, the …

Sixteen-nine Publishes SoC Infographic

by Bob Raikes

Sixteen-nine.net has published an interesting infographic that sets out what each brand is doing in the Smart Signage area. Click on the image to be taken to the full resolution chart on the blog’s …

Tags:Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| SOCs| Vol 25 - Issue 32

Nvidia Brings RTX to GeForce Range

by Bob Raikes

At Siggraph, Nvidia announced its RTX cards for professional content creators, based on the new Turing GPU architecture. (Nvidia Changes the Game in Ray Tracing) Now it has released three versions for consumers and …

Asus Notebook is Claimed as Thinnest Gamer Machine

by Bob Raikes

Asus has a new notebook in its Republic of Gamers line for gamers, the Zephyrus S (GX531) which is said to be the “world’s thinnest” notebook with an Intel Core i7-8750H with an Nvidia …