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Apple Updates iPad Pro Models…

by Bob Raikes

Apple introduced a new 10.5″ iPad Pro and a new version of the 12.9″ iPad Pro. The new 10.5″ tablet features small borders to reduce the size and with the weight of 1lb (450 …

Tags:Apple| Convertible PCs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 22

News Sites Can’t Add Up – Fake News?

by Bob Raikes

Close to press time, we were writing up a story, widely reported by many web blogs that ran, as below: “Strategy Analytics pointed out in a report that Apple took 83.4% of the profits …

Tags:Apple| Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Mobile AR Users to Reach 1bn+ by 2021

by Bob Raikes

Digi-Capital has published an interesting blog that suggests that there will be an ‘epic battle’ between Facebook, Apple, Google, Tencent, Snap, Alibaba, Baidu, Samsung, Huawei and more after Mark Zuckerberg’s comment in April that …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| | Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Mitsubishi Extends Temperatures and Adds Transflective LCD

by Bob Raikes

Although we caught up with Mitsubishi at the Embedded World show in Nurnberg a couple of months ago, there were still new things to see at SID. The first display we looked at was …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD displays| Mitsubishi| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2017| Transflective Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 21

SID 2017 Show Floor Round Up

by Bob Raikes

DNP of Japan was showing a new Louvre Array Film that is designed for automotive applications and that can block reflections on the windscreen of autos from displays in the car. The film can …

Tags:Film materials| Flexible Displays| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Large Display Monitor| LCD Backlights| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 21

IC11 IMax Says Many Ways To Judge VR Progress

by Bob Raikes

The final speaker for the day at the Investor’s Conference was Amit Shalev, Head of VR Technology & Design at IMax Corp. She said she would talk about other ‘paths to success’ for VR. …

Tags:IMAX| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2017| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 21

IC10 Intel Positive about Immersive Computing

by Bob Raikes

Stephen Salzman is from Intel Capital. He started by saying that the world is in 3D with immersive sound, so that is how computing should be. He agrees with earlier speakers that AR, MR …

Tags:Intel| Mobile Display Monitor| Press Events| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 21

IC09 Vuzix Says Glasses Must be Light & Fashionable

by Bob Raikes

Paul Travers is President and CEO of Vuzix based in Rochester and the company is 20 years old. It has offices in the UK and Japan and investors include Intel Capital. After many years, …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Press Events| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 12| Vuzix| Waveguide Display

IC08 Leia Looks to Develop Light Field LCDs

by Bob Raikes

David Fattal is the founder and CEO from Leia, which is a spin-off from HP work in Palo Alto which can create a switchable light field display from any mobile device. The company supplies …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Light Field Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 21

IC07 Pixelligent Sees Opportunities in OLED & MicroLED

by Bob Raikes

We skipped the talk by Jason Hartlove of Nanosys, as we had attended his talk the previous day at the Business conference. (BC19 Nanosys Enjoying QD Success – Moving to Next Steps). We also …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor

Apple to Support External GPU & VR

by Bob Raikes

As part of its announcements at the WWDC 2017, Apple said it would support a development kit that is an external GPU enclosure, with an AMD Radeon RX 580 that can connect to PCs …

Tags:Apple| GPUs| Mobile Display Monitor| Thunderbolt| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Samsung Galaxy Book Now Available to Order

by Bob Raikes

Samsung announced the Galaxy Book tablet at MWC (Samsung Finds Some Products to Launch for specifications and details). There are 10.6″ and 12″ versions, both with UltraHD AMOLED displays and based on Intel Core …

Tags:Convertible PCs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 22