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Royole Gets $80 million of Funding

by Bob Raikes

Royole Corporation, which is developing OLED-based VR headsets, has raised $80 million in a ‘pre-D’ series funding from Warmsun Holding group, which values the company at $3 billion. The round brings the total raised …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 46

Vuzix Preview its CES AR Product

by Bob Raikes

Vuzix has put a preview of its latest waveguide-based AR technology, which will be shown at CES, in a video (below), apparently captured by a staff member with an iPhone. Analyst Comment The quality …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 46| Vuzix

All of it Now Uses Epson for Mapping

by Bob Raikes

All of it Now, a San Francisco-based creative design agency, used Epson projectors (Pro G and Z series) to implement mapping projects. The agency said in its video that it chose Epson because of …

Tags:Back Panel| Epson| Large Display Monitor| Projection Mapping| Vol 23 - Issue 46

MediaTek UltraCast Brings 4K Streaming

by Bob Raikes

Mediatek has announced its UltraCast technology which extends the Miracast Wi-Fi streaming system to support UltraHD content on the company’s Helio smartphone chipsets as well as chipsets for SmartTVs. The company said that it …

Tags:Chips| Large Display Monitor| Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| Streaming Dongles| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 46

JDI Announces 3.4″ LCD For VR Headsets

by Bob Raikes

Japan Display Inc (JDI) said that it has developed a 3.42″ LTPS LCD for virtual reality (VR) head mount displays (HMD) and has started sample delivery. The display has a resolution of 1440 x …

Tags:Japan Display Inc (JDI)| LCD displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 46

Fujitsu Strong in POS & Retail

by Bob Raikes

Fujitsu has a strong business in POS and retail. While looking around what it was doing, we saw a familiar face, Tobias Nagel, once with Also and then involved in the A/V industry. However, …

Tags:Fujitsu| Fujitsu Forum 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| POS| Retail| Vol 23 - Issue 46

Fujitsu Optimistic about Convertibles

by Bob Raikes

There were three new notebooks launched at the event in the 7 Series with 12.5″, 14″ and 15.6″ display options. The new systems replace the E7 series. The systems use Intel Gen 7 processors …

Tags:Fujitsu| Fujitsu Forum 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| tablets| Vol 23 - Issue 46

Fujitsu Offers “Meeting Room as a Service”

by Bob Raikes

Fujitsu has resisted, up to now, entering the market for meeting room or presentation displays. One of the reasons, it told us several years ago, was that it’s business is almost entirely with IT …

Tags:Fujitsu| Fujitsu Forum 2016| Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Promethean| Vol 23 - Issue 46

Fujitsu Narrows Bezels on P Line Monitors

by Bob Raikes

We spent time looking at the new monitors. The first we looked at, the P24-8 TE Pro, was the production version of a set that we reported on two years ago and that has …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Fujitsu Forum 2016| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 46

Fujtsu Forum Moves Towards Services & IoT

by Bob Raikes

Every year, in November, Fujitsu holds a major Forum event in Munich. We’ve attended for most of the recent years, although we missed it last time. This year’s event was, as usual, busy and …

Tags:Fujitsu Forum 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 46

HTC Signs Strategic Partnership with Shenzhen Municipal Government

by Bob Raikes

HTC Corporation (“HTC”), a pioneer in innovative, smart mobile and virtual reality (VR) technologies, today signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement with the Shenzhen Municipal Government. Under the agreement, the Shenzhen Municipal Government will support …

Tags:HTC| Virtual Reality