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DS30 Eccles Updates on Simulation Needs

by Bob Raikes

Dave Eccles is from Rockwell Collins (RC) and he said he has a great job – he gets paid to play games. Simulators are now so good that simulation counts as flight time, so …

Tags:Display Summit 2016| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Rockwell Collins| Simulation| Vol 23 - Issue 24

DS28 Mechdyne Explains Practicalities of CAVEs

by Bob Raikes

Kurt Hoffmeister is CTO from Mechdyne which is a US AV company that has been around a long time but now around 50% of its business is in 3D and immersive technologies. 30% of …

Tags:CAVEs| Display Summit 2016| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Simulation| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 24

DS27 Aptovision Predicts Death of Matrix Switches

by Bob Raikes

Justin Kennington is from Aptovision and he talked about transmitting and switching video over IP. Aptovision has chips to put HDMI over ethernet networks and we covered this in some detail in our ISE …

Tags:Display Summit 2016| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Pro AV| Video over IP (VIP)| Vol 23 - Issue 24

What Was Missing at SID?

by Bob Raikes

It has been a “head down” week, catching up with routine things that had built up in the three weeks that I was away in the US at SID, AWE, the Display Summit and …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 23

DS26 DisplayPort Benefits from Type C

by Bob Raikes

Syed Athar Hussain works for AMD. He is vice chair of VESA and he spoke about DisplayPort in that capacity at the Summit. Technologies that VESA is working on include DisplayPort, Adaptive sync, Display …

Tags:Display Summit 2016| DisplayPort| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| VESA| Vol 23 - Issue 24

DS25 Lattice says 8K is Coming

by Bob Raikes

Marshall Goldberg is from Lattice and was with Silicon Image before it was acquired by Lattice. He tends to work on things that are two to three years out, he said. He explained the …

Tags:Display Summit 2016| Fibre optics| HDMI| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| MHL| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| superMHL| Vol 23 - Issue 24

DS24 Valens Teases about HDBaseT Networking

by Bob Raikes

Gabi Shriki is from the HDBaseT Alliance. He introduced the organisation, which has 117 members and said that the technology is being used worldwide. It’s a standard, not a perfect one, but it is …

Tags:Display Summit 2016| HDBaseT| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 24

DS23 Putman Updates on Wireless Display

by Bob Raikes

The next session was on connectivity and our own Bob Raikes was the moderator. The first speaker was Pete Putman, a display and TV industry specialist whose affiliation at the event was with Kramer …

Tags:Display Summit 2016| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 24| Wi-Fi| WiDi| WiGIG| wireless AV| WirelessHD

DS22 SeeCubic Hopes for 1 Million AS3D Sets in 2018

by Bob Raikes

Walther Roelen is from SeeCubic, which is a subsidiary of streamTV and which he founded. He avoids the use of the term 3D, he said. He looked at how computer models were developed to …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| Display Summit 2016| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Light Field Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 24

DS21 VefXi Has a New Chip for Auto 3D Content Creation

by Bob Raikes

Craig Peterson is CEO of VEFXi which is working in VR and we have reported several times on the company this year, since MWC. He started by saying that there are two kinds of …

Tags:3D Content Creation| Display Summit 2016| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 24

Product Manager/Analyst Available

by Bob Raikes

We have heard of a very experienced US display industry professional that is available for possible positions in product management and analysis. Excellent knowledge of the current markets in large displays. Contact [email protected]

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Recruitment & Appointments| Vol 23 - Issue 23

DS20 Li Solves the Problem with 3D

by Bob Raikes

Chao Li has a research centre for 3D in China which is focused on 3D with LEDs. He has looked at the human factors in detail. To start, Li asked three questions: Why does …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Display Summit 2016| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 23 - Issue 24