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Samsung Back at SID – but ‘No Meetings’

by Bob Raikes

Samsung Display was missed at the SID event last year (it was concentrating on promoting its branded products last year, rather than components, we heard), so we were pleased to see the company back …

Kyocera Highlights Touch and Automotive

by Bob Raikes

Kyocera explained its expanded Procap line of products for industrial and automotive applications, which are now available optically bonded up to 12.1″. The company has also upgraded its wide viewing angle technology from AWV …

SID Showfloor Round Up

by Bob Raikes

3M was showing a 31″ 2560 x 1440 monitor reference design that supports 94% of the Rec 2020 using the company’s QD-based QDEF film in an edge-lit configuration and using an optimised DBEF. Brightness …

IC12 Microsoft Summarises AR & VR Developments

by Bob Raikes

The final talk was by Dr Bernard Kress from the Microsoft Hololens Team. He gave a very, very ‘high bandwidth’ overview of what is happening in VR and AR. There were 175 slides! Before …

IC11 Kopin Adds Battery & Voice Technology to Displays

by Bob Raikes

Dr Hong Choi is CTO of Kopin which is concentrating on AR and VR markets. The company has developed a lot of technology and has 300 patents. It has $90 million in cash and …

IC10 Leia Uses Diffraction for Lightfields

by Bob Raikes

David Fattal is founder and CEO of Leia, a company that was founded to develop holographic displays for mobile devices. The world today has the cloud, connectivity, content and AI and we increasingly rely …

IC9 Meta Moves on From Kickstarter

by Bob Raikes

Soren Harner is Chief Product Officer of Meta which is at the seed stage after a successful Kickstarter campaign and is based in Redwood Shores in the Bay area. He spoke about how AR …

IC8 Vuzix Looks to Go Through ‘Oakley Gate’

by Bob Raikes

Paul Travers is the CEO of Vuzix which makes wearable displays and has been doing this for nearly 20 years. It has offices around the world. Until glasses get through the “Oakley gate” and …

IC7 ODG Sneaks a Preview of its New Glasses

by Bob Raikes

Pete Jameson is COO of Osterhout Design Group which is a private self-funded company that is based in the centre of San Francisco – with a clean room close to the baseball stadium! The …

IC6 Immersion Says Touch Still Open for Development

by Bob Raikes

Victor Viegas is from Immersion which is a company that works in haptics and where he is CEO. It has a licensing model and its technology is in more than three billion devices. It …

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IC5 Pixelligent Helps with Light Extraction

by Bob Raikes

Pixelligent makes PixClear high index materials that use zirconia nanocrystals which the company claims have very uniform properties and the company claims to be able to achieve 95% transmittance with 80% loading. The company, …

IC4 HTC Sets out Content Needs for VR

by Bob Raikes

Joel Breton is from HTC where he works on the Vive and is responsible for finding content for the system. He said that VR needs some “killer apps”, like Visicalc on the Apple ][ …