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Siggraph Opens My Ears to VR

by Bob Raikes

I’ve been in Vancouver most of this week and we’ll have the report on the Siggraph event for you next week. It was interesting and was a first attendence at the event for me. …

Lenovo Adds Portable Thin & Light Workstation

by Bob Raikes

Lenovo has released a new portable workstation, the ThinkPad P1 that is said to be 35% lighter than the previous version, with weight from 1.7kg (3.76lbs). The system is intended for professional applications in …

Verizon Collaborates with Apple, Google for 5G service

by Bob Raikes

Verizon has reached deals with Google and Apple for the deployment of its 5G residential service in four markets: Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles and Sacramento, Calif. Sources say that new subscribers will receive either …

Fujitsu Mobile Workstations are VR Ready

by Bob Raikes

Fujitsu has added two new mobile workstations, the Celsius H780 and H980, which have 15.6″ and 17.3″ displays, respectively and run on Intel Xeon E-2100M processors. Both have FullHD resolution and the H780 has …

AMD Looks to Value and Stability for Professional GPUs

by Bob Raikes

AMD, which was somewhat overshadowed by the Nvidia RTX announcement, launched its new Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX processors which have 32 cores and 64 threads and are claimed to be the most powerful desktop processors. …

Chromebooks May Soon Support Windows 10

by Bob Raikes

Earlier this year, Google said that it was working to allow the support of an alternative OS alongside Chrome OS. This caused some confusion as some had already run Linux distributions and Chrome OS …

New 4K OPS Player Giada PC25

by Bob Raikes

Giada has a new OPS media playuer that uses a QuadCore Gemini Lake CPU with support for Intel graphics up to DCI 4K resolution up to 60Hz. Memory is supported up to 8GB and …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Media Players| OPS| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 25 - Issue 31

BenQ Adds Dual UST L/P Projectors

by Bob Raikes

BenQ has two new projectors with support for UST (and on which we reported first from in January (LDM Vol 25 – Issue 02 Roundup). The LW890UST and LH890UST both use the firm’s BlueCore …

Tags:BenQ| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| UST Projectors| Vol 25 - Issue 31

AR on the Road is Getting There

by Bob Raikes

Most technologies that are successful and widely adopted depend on a killer app’, something that is enabled by the technology and not enabled without it. AR has been looking for such a an application …

Tags:Head Up Displays HUDs| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Sports and Stadiums| Vol 25 - Issue 31

SmallHD Focus OLED

by Bob Raikes

SmallHD has a two new(ish) 5.5″ OLED touch-enabled monitors for DSLR and mirrorless cameras with FullHD resolution (402 ppi) and 350 cd/m² of output. The gamut is 105% of NTSC and the monitor has …

Tags:Field Monitors| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 25 - Issue 31

Mobile Challenges

by Bob Raikes

This week, production was a challenge, as a family commitment meant that I was away from the office on Thursday and Friday. I was in a tent in the Oxfordshire, UK, countryside and, sadly, …

Solomon Systech’s Full-screen AMOLED Touch Controller IC Witnessing Strong Growth (2)

by Bob Raikes

Solomon Systech said that it is seeing strong growth in demand for its AMOLED touch controller which can support flexible OLEDs and should be sampling soon. Richard Kerslake-Smith, Product Line Director, Mobile Touch, Solomon …