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Digital Games To Reach $100 Billion Industry

by Bob Raikes

Juniper Research has said that the global digital games market is set to reach the $100 billion milestone by the end of this year. The company said that the PC market has seen reinvigoration …

Tags:Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 07

Games better on Daydream than Gear VR?

by Bob Raikes

A review by Tom’s Hardware that explains that an air combat game, Bandit Six, runs better on a Daydream smartphone than on the Samsung Gear VR, up to now considered as probably the best …

Tags:AR/VR| Game Playing| Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 07

Monitor Flowchart is for Gamers

by Bob Raikes

Website, GPUnerd.com has made a flow chart for its readers that is designed to help them choose a monitor. The website also has a buyers guide. Analyst Comment This flowchart is a good guide …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 07

Virtual Impresses Dr. Jon with Virtual Planetarium

by Bob Raikes

Altair Digital has developed planetarium software and a double layer five metre dome using a wireless projection system and a spherical mirror and that costs a cool $7,900. It has also developed a version …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Planetariums| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 07

SmallHD Has OLED & P3 Monitors

by Bob Raikes

SmallHD, a Vitec company, has two new broadcast monitors, the 1703-P3 and the 702OLED. The 702OLED is an update to the 702 Bright and has a 7.7″ OLED display. The product, which has resolution …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 07

The IMax VR Experience is Tested

by Bob Raikes

We’ve reported regularly on the development of VR ‘Experiences’ by IMax, so were intrigued to see a review of the Los Angeles Center on the Wareable blog. The blog reports that in the first …

Tags:AR/VR| Cinema IMAX| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 07

LCD Lets Down Amtrak

by Bob Raikes

The US rail operator, Amtrak, switched from a traditional departure board a few months ago at Penn Station in New York. However, in the middle of February, the system failed for around an hour, …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Transport| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 07

European Public Display Market Moderating

by Bob Raikes

Meko, the publisher of Large Display Monitor, has published its DisplayCast PD data for the Public Display market in Europe for Q4 2016 and found that while the market grew in Q4 2016 by …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Market Data| Vol 24 - Issue 06

UniPixel Raises $10m in Public Offering

by Bob Raikes

UniPixel of Santa Clara in the US said that it has completed a $10 million public offering of common stock and warrants. The stock was placed privately and adds to the $3 million of …

Tags:Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Unipixel| Vol 24 - Issue 07

Cypress Enables HDMI over USB-C

by Bob Raikes

Cypress Semi has claimed that Elka International is shipping the first USB Type-C HDMI Alt mode cable, based on the Cypress EZ-PD CCG3 chip to manage the connection. The chip includes an ARM Cortex-M0 …

Tags:HDMI| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| USB| Vol 24 - Issue 06