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$1.8 Billion VC Funding for VR/AR in 2016

by Bob Raikes

Last year, the funding for VR/AR companies reached $1.8 billion, ending much higher than in 2015. According to Greenlight Insights year-end analysis of individual deals back to 2011, both median-deal size and the total …

Tags:AR/VR| Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 04

JDI Demonstrates Flexible LCD on Video

by Bob Raikes

We found a video online from AVWatch in Japan that shows the flexible video that JDI announced last week. (JDI To Make Flexible LCDs in 2018) Analyst Comment It’s interesting to note that the …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Japan Display Inc (JDI)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 04

GTG and QMA Report 150 Million RMB Investment

by Bob Raikes

The Guanghui Technology Group and Quantum Materials Asia Co., Ltd., a joint venture of GTG and Quantum Materials Corp, reported an investment by the China Government Guidance Fund of 150 Million RMB ($21.8 million) …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| Vol 24 - Issue 04

DisplayMate Looks to the Smartphone Future

by Bob Raikes

Display Daily’s good friend, Dr Ray Soneira of DisplayMate, has published his thoughts about the future of displays in mobile phones based on his experience of testing the best smartphone displays over the last …

Tags:AMOLED| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 04

Crystal Offers ‘Transparent’ LED

by Bob Raikes

Crystal Display Systems in the UK has started to sell ‘transparent LED Glass’ Displays for daylight and shop window applications. The LEDs are in a custom subframe and are available in a number of …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 24 - Issue 04

PMA Research Shows Double-Digit Growth For US Professional LFD Market

by Bob Raikes

PMA Research (PMA) has published its latest set of sell-through tracking reports on large-format (32″ and larger) flat panel displays being sold by leading US AV/IT Distributors and Pro AV dealers and integrators who …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| PMA Research| Vol 24 - Issue 04

Facebook-Owned Company Oculus Loses Court Case

by Bob Raikes

Oculus has been ordered to pay half a billion dollars to the games company ZeniMax after a jury determined that the Oculus CEO, Palmer Luckey, failed to comply with a non-disclosure agreement. The case …

Tags:Litigation| Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus Rift| Vol 24 - Issue 04

IDC

IDC Expects Turkey’s IT Market to Total $10.9 billion in 2017

by Bob Raikes

IDC is predicting that the total ICT spending in Turkey will total $22.3 billion in 2017 and Turkey’s IT Market will total $10.9 billion matching the 1.9% year-on-year growth rate seen in 2016. It …

Tags:ICT| IDC| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 04

LG 2017 OLED TV Prices Revealed

by Bob Raikes

US retailer, B & H Photo has released pricing for some of the new range of LG OLED TVs. C7 55″ (no soundbar) – $2,496 C7 65″ (no soundbar) – $3,996 E7 55″ (with …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLEDs| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 04

Rogers TV Subscribers Down in Q4 2016

by Bob Raikes

Rogers Communication of Canada said that it had seen a drop in subscribers by 13,000 in Q4 2016. Internet growth offset the drop in TV revenues of 4% in the most recent quarter. Subscribers …

Tags:Cable| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| North America| Vol 24 - Issue 04

Axon Has AZilPix Virtual Camera System

by Bob Raikes

Axon Digital Design, of Gilze in the Netherlands, has a system for live video capture that uses an array of cameras to capture images to allow production of video using a ‘virtual camera’. “By …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 04

Anders IPS LCD is for Dashboards & Instruments

by Bob Raikes

AndersDX in the UK has a new 16:6 aspect IPS TFT LCD module with 1280 x 480 resolution and 12.3″ diagonal. Contrast is 800:1 and brightness is 850 cd/m². The display has an integrated …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Rugged Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 04