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iOS Gains Against Android – Kantar

by Bob Raikes

Smartphone sales data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech shows Android sales declined in the US, GB, and France, as iOS continued to make gains across most regions in the three months ending November 2016. iOS …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Eonite Claims Tracking Solution for AR/VR

by Bob Raikes

Eonite has said that it has developed the “world’s most accurate, lowest latency, lowest power consuming software to democratize inside-out positional tracking for VR and AR.” The company has claimed that it has a …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Aquavision Will Show Custom TVs at ISE

by Bob Raikes

Aquavision of the UK has announced a range of professional sets with IP control and called the Nexus+ range. There are five new models with a range of options, including 16″, 22″, 27″, 32″ …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 02

HP ZBook 15u is a Mobile Workstation

by Bob Raikes

HP has launched the ZBook15U, a mobile clamshell workstation that now uses the 7th Gen (Kaby Lake) Intel Core i5 and i7 processors alongside AMD FirePro professional graphics “W4190M” with up to 32GB of …

Tags:HP Inc| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Philips Uses VR for Spinal Surgery

by Bob Raikes

Philips is developing a new augmented-reality surgical navigation technology that may allow spinal surgery using image-guided open and minimally-invasive techniques. The system exploits Philips’ low-dose X-ray systems for imaging. The results of the first …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Philips| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Apple

Apple Rumoured to be Working on Original Video Content

by Bob Raikes

Normally, we wouldn’t bother with a rumour about Apple – there are so many, but in this case, the source is the Wall St Journal. The paper said that Apple is planning to create …

Tags:Apple| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Nintendo Switch will launch on March 3 for $300 / €300

by Bob Raikes

Nintendo has released details of the new Switch console, which will be released in early March (the 3rd) for $300 / €300 and will be ‘region-free’. The console will ship first in Japan followed …

Tags:Consoles| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nintendo| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Digital Projection To Show Five Projectors at ISE

by Bob Raikes

Digital Projection said that it will show five new projectors at ISE in February. The company will have the Insight Dual Laser 27,000 lumen projector (right) with a native contrast of 2,000:1. It will …

Tags:Digital Projection Inc (DPI)| DLP Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Smartphone Opportunities and ‘Price Gravity’

by Bob Raikes

The most important consumer device is now the smartphone, not the TV, and that means that there are lots of ways to exploit the investment of buyers. At CES, I saw a couple of …

Tags:Pricing| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 01

IDC Says PC Market Stabilizes with Solid Q4 Shipments

by Bob Raikes

IDC said that worldwide shipments of traditional PCs (Desktop, Notebook, and Workstation) totalled 70.2 million units in the Q4 2016, a year-on-year decline of 1.5%, the fifth year of decline since 2012. Annual shipments …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Vol 24 - Issue 01

Sony

DCS To Look at HDR and HFR

by Bob Raikes

The Digital Cinema Society in Hollywood is running an event at Sony Studios, Culver City, California on the 9th February from 1.00pm to 4.00pm when Sony will be showing its FS5 and F65 as …

Tags:Back Panel| HDR - High Dynamic Range| HFR - High Frame Rate| Large Display Monitor| sony| Vol 24 - Issue 01

Oculus Ready PC Costs $500 (When Bundled with Rift)

by Bob Raikes

A custom PC maker, CyberPower Inc has developed a PC that is ‘Oculus Ready’ and that costs $1,099 for the bundle when bought with a Rift on Amazon or BestBuy’s online shop. Given that …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| PCs| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 02