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MindMaze Trying to Track Faces

by Bob Raikes

MindMaze is a start-up that is developing face tracking that is said to be compatible with any VR headset as it uses low cost electrodes in the foam padding around the headset to detect …

Tags:AR/VR| face recognition| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 21

NEC IR Touch Display is Competitively Priced

by Bob Raikes

NEC Display in the US has launched the E651-T which has an integrated IR touch screen that can respond to ten touches. Brightness of the FullHD S-PVA LCD display is 400 cd/m² and the …

Tags:Education| Large Display Monitor| NEC| Touch| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Oledon Enables 2,250ppi OLEDs – Looks to 3,300ppi

by Bob Raikes

One of the interesting papers that was presented at the SID (37.2 Plane Source Evaporation Techniques for Super Ultra High Resolution Flexible AMOLED) was given by Oledon. In the paper, the Korean company, working …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Moto Z2 Play Due Soon

by Bob Raikes

The Motorola Moto Z2 Play is a new 5.5″ FullHD smartphone that uses an AMOLED display with Gorilla Glass 3. The processor is a Qualcomm MSM8953-Pro Snapdragon 626 octacore unit with an Adreno 506 …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Motorola| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Holokit Brings Cardboard Concept to AR

by Bob Raikes

Amber Garage has created an equivalent to the Google Cardboard for AR and called the HoloKit. The design used folded cardboard with dual mirrors and a semi-transparent fresnel lens to superimpose an image of …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 22

BC20 Yole Updates on MicroLED Progress

by Bob Raikes

Eric Virey is from Yole Développment, a market research consultancy. and he spoke about Microled. (We have reported data from Yole in Display Daily – MicroLED Heads for Commercialisation) Sony showed a FullHD 55″ …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 21

BC19 Nanosys Enjoying QD Success – Moving to Next Steps

by Bob Raikes

We have reported talks by Jason Hartlove, CEO of Nanosys, many times. He, of course talked about Quantum Dots. Nanosys makes quantum dot materials and can make high efficiency materials that are tunable to …

BC18 Merck Describes its Business

by Bob Raikes

Dr Mark Verrall is the global head of R&D for liquid crystals for Merck, the leading supplier of LC materials, globally, although he works for the US subsidiary, which doesn’t use the Merck name …

BC17 Cynora Progressing on TADF Blue

by Bob Raikes

Andreas Haldi is from Cynora of Germany, which makes TADF. an OLED material, that is claimed to have better efficacy than existing phosphorescent materials. He said that he had heard mention of Google as …

BC16 UDC Identifies Novel Architecture and Flexible as Opportunities

by Bob Raikes

The final session was started by Dr Mike Hack of Universal Display Corporation (UDC), one of the key suppliers of OLED materials and processes. The company supplies phosphorescent OLED emission layers including the host …

BC15 Tamura Looks at LCD vs OLED

by Bob Raikes

Yoshio Tamura is from DSCC and said that the OLED supply demand could follow a similar path to the LCD business. However, he said, there are many challenges in engineering and patents. DSCC has …

BC14 Unipixel Bullish on Metal Mesh Touch

by Bob Raikes

Jalil Shaik is COO of UniPixel of the US and used to be with Atmel before that company’s touch business was acquired by UniPixel. He talked about UniPixel’s metal mesh technology which is used …