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ViewSonic Comes to LED from a Different Direction

by Bob Raikes

There has been a trend from companies in the LED wall business to develop standalone ‘monolithic’ displays rather than the custom and modular approach that is traditional in that market. So it was interesting …

Tags:LED| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| ViewSonic

LG Chem started to supply ‘Blue Host’ to BOE

by Bob Raikes

What They Say ETNews from Korea reports that LG Chem has started to supply a blue host OLED material to BOE in China for the first time. The firm is said to be using …

Tags:BOE| OLED Materials| Supply Chain

LG Libero: WQHD display for hanging or standing

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG in Japan has released an unusually designed monitor that is designed for desk standing or hanging from an office screen partition. The unit is a QuadHD IPS monitor and there …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Japan| LG Electronics (LGE)

LetinAR Makes Big Progress on AR Optics

by Bob Raikes

We’ve been reporting on Korean AR optics company LetinAR since we met up with them in the Sands Eureka Park at CES 2018 and immediately the appeal of the technology was apparent to me. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Optics

AR in eCommerce May Reduce Returns

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A survey of 4,000+ shoppers in the U.S. the U.K., Saudi Arabia, and France suggested that the use of AR technology can reduce the number of returns in ecommerce. The survey …

Tags:Augmented Reality| eCommerce| Retail

Myopia Epidemic Not Caused by Displays

by Bob Raikes

What They Say An article in the Economist’s Simply Science series looked in detail at the rising problem of myopia in parts of East Asia and found that in some parts of the region, …

Tags:Ergonomics| Human Visual System (HVS)| Medical

We Found the Source for the Meta Info

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apologies – yesterday I reported on Meta’s developments in XR displays but I missed the source of that content which is a one hour video from ‘Adam Savage’s Tested’ that includes …

Tags:Augmented Reality| | Mixed Reality| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Will Streaming Take Over?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Kagan said after a survey of US adult internet uses that it estimates that US households used 6.8 streaming video services on average in March 2022. The result showed that paid …

Tags:Advertising| Roku| Smart TV| Streaming Video| USA

Xerox Parc Developing SMPs for MicroLED Transfer

by Bob Raikes

What They Say MicroLED-Info posted a video showing a system for the mass transfer of microLED devices based on thermally induced adhesion modulation of shape memory polymers (SMP). Heated micro patches on the transfer …

Tags:MicroLED| Production Technology| R&D (Research & Development)