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Entatech Returns to Profit

by Bob Raikes

UK distributor, owned by display industry veteran, Dave Stevinson, has reported an operating profit of £339K ($430K) for the year ending 29th February, compared to a loss of £1.5 million ($1.9m) in the previous …

Tags:Distribution| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 49

HTC Reports on VR Education Test

by Bob Raikes

A research report called “The Impact of VR on Academic Performance”, published in November 2016, was jointly carried out by Beijing Bluefocus E-Commerce Co., Ltd. and Beijing iBokan Wisdom Mobile Internet Technology Training at …

Tags:China| Education| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 49

DisplayLink And Targus Create Dual 4K Dock

by Bob Raikes

DisplayLink and Targus have announced the first dual 4K USB docking station that can support 4096 x 2160 at 60Hz refresh with 24 bit colour over a single USB cable. The dock connects to …

Tags:DisplayLink| Large Display Monitor| USB| Vol 23 - Issue 49

Microsoft Clarifies Holographic Platform at Winhec

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft has released more about the VR headsets from Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo et al at the WinHec event in Shenzen and it looks as they will sell from $300. The company has confirmed …

Tags:AR/VR| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 49

Leap Motion Boosts FoV of Gesture Detection

by Bob Raikes

Leap Motion, which develops gesture and hand-tracking technology for A/R and V/R has released its Leap Motion Mobile Platform, a software and hardware combination that is said to be capable of a 10 fold …

Tags:AR/VR| Gesture Recognition| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 49

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Microsoft Holographic Dev Kits at GDC

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft has said that it is finalising the development kits for the Windows Holographic platform (and will be released at the Games Developers’ Conference in March.

Tags:AR/VR| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 49

AMD Supports Oculus and Updates Freesync

by Bob Raikes

AMD has added support for the Asynchronous Space Warp technology from Oculus, which is a development of ATW (Asynchronous Time Warp) which allows judder reducing frame warping for both translational (side to side) and …

Tags:GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 49

Entry-level Smartphone Chip Sales Weak

by Bob Raikes

Reports from Asia say that orders for chips to be used in entry level phones have been dropping, while there is continued growth in demand for mid-range and higher end phones. This is the …

Tags:MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 49

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Microsoft to Run Windows 10 on Qualcomm

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft is developing a version of Windows 10 that will run on systems using Qualcomm chips. Microsoft is said to be keen to get the operating system onto mobile devices that have the lower …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 23 - Issue 49

BBC iPlayer starts Ultra HD and HLG trial

by Bob Raikes

The BBC is experimenting with UHD and HLG-based HDR on ‘compatible connected TVs’. A four minute extract of the recent Planet Earth II (a very good view, even in FullHD with SDR – Man. …

Tags:BBC| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 23 - Issue 49

Dell Thin Client Supports Dual UHD

by Bob Raikes

Dell has announced a new thin client, the Wyse 5060 that is designed to be very flexible and work with Citrix, Microsoft and VMWare protocols. The device is based on an AMD 2.4GHz processor …

Tags:Dell| Large Display Monitor| Thin Clients| Vol 23 - Issue 49