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Kverve Has New Optics for AR (DS11b)

by Bob Raikes

Jorn Eriksen is from Kverve, a start up from Norway (Eriksen was the founder of CEO of Projection Design, so has some track record in the industry). The project that Kverve is working on …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Display Summit 2015| Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| Optics| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Digilens Creates Polymer Optics (DS11)

by Bob Raikes

Jonathan Waldern is CEO of Digilens which has a new kind of material for waveguide optics. He started by asking “who has heard of Google Glass?” – who has tried it, and who would …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Display Summit 2015| Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| Optics| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Sharma Calls for Industry to Measure with L*a*b* (DS10)

by Bob Raikes

Dr Abhay Sharma is a Color Consultant from Abhay Consulting and he is also a professor from Toronto University. He started by saying that we need numbers to measure colour, and he doesn’t understand …

Tags:Colour Management & Processing| Colour Quality| Display Summit 2015| Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 26

BenQ Wants Brightness Measured with sRGB (DS9)

by Bob Raikes

Felix Pementel of BenQ looked at what makes a great image on a projector. “Do you really give the consumer the specifications they really need to make a good buying decisions?”, he asked. He …

Tags:Brightness| Display Summit 2015| Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| Measurement| Projectors| sRGB| Testing| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Insight Reports on ColorSpark Testing (DS8)

by Bob Raikes

Chris Chinnock of Insight Media gave more details about the testing of solid state projectors that it carried out to help get a sense of what users thought of the new ColorSpark technology, side …

Tags:Display Summit 2015| DLP Projectors| Infocomm 2015| Insight Media| Large Display Monitor| LED| LED Projectors| Philips| Testing| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Philips Boosts LED Projection With ColorSpark (DS7)

by Bob Raikes

Peter Vankan is R&D Director for Philips Lighting which also has responsibility for projection light sources as well as general lighting. First, Vankan looked back to 1994, when the company first made the UHP …

Tags:Display Summit 2015| DLP Projectors| Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| LED Projectors| Light Sources & Lamps| Philips| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Delta Shows First Laser Cube and Updates Interactive Display

by Bob Raikes

Delta used InfoComm 2015 to show the world’s first rear-projection cube based on a laser-phosphor DLP engine. It increases brightness from 350 nits to 750 nits, but does sacrifice lifetime and color gamut. The …

Tags:Delta| DLP Projectors| Infocomm 2015| Laser Projectors| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Microlite Brings LCD Approach to Projection Screens (DS6)

by Bob Raikes

Martin Chien is from Microlite Screen which has a new technology for projection screens for wide viewing angles. It is a new company, but Chien has more than ten years experience in screens. Projection …

Tags:Display Summit 2015| Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| Projection Screens| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Wavien Wants to Cool Phosphor with Liquid (DS 5)

by Bob Raikes

Ken Li is from Wavien and he started by introducing the company. The company develops IP in displays, especially in lamps and light sources.He talked about Wavien’s concept of putting laser-excited phosphor into liquid. …

Tags:Display Summit 2015| Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Laser Projectors| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Question Session 1 (DS 4)

by Bob Raikes

In questions about the different HDR formats that are being proposed, Talstra (Philips) said that standardisation is a bit slow, but everybody is worried about potential ‘format wars’ if there isn’t a clear standard …

Tags:Display Summit 2015| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Canon Explains HDR Pipeline (DS3)

by Bob Raikes

Laurence (Larry) Thorpe of Canon gave a very “high bandwidth” talk and we hope we caught the main points! He addressed HDR but he also started by saying that Canon cannot separate HDR from …

Tags:Canon| Display Summit 2015| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 26| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

RealD Says 20,000:1 is Enough Contrast (DS2)

by Bob Raikes

Miller Schuck is from RealD and he talked about contrast in the cinema. Laser projectors are here now – they can deliver good HDR, colour and really black blacks. Can 3D keep pace with …

Tags:3D Cinema| Contrast| Display Summit 2015| DLP Projectors| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 26