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Location-based VR is the Right Next Step

by Chris Chinnock

This is a feeling I have had for some time, but this was driven home today based on my tour of the brand new IMax VR Center in New York. This is the second …

Tags:IMAX| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 23

JDI Shows Floating 3D and Light Field Displays

by Chris Chinnock

Japan Display Inc, (JDI) showed a number of interesting demos including two 3D displays. One was an aerial floating display that featured the image of a fire that appeared to be floating inside a …

ARM Shows HDR-to-SDR Conversion

by Chris Chinnock

ARM was in the i-Zone showing off its HDR-to-SDR conversion technology. This is technology that was acquired via Arm’s purchase of Apical exactly one year ago. The technology is being aimed at HDR device …

Tags:Arm| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Exalos Showcases SLEDs

by Chris Chinnock

Exalos is a developer of superluminescent LEDs. These are LEDs that have a spectral width that is similar to conventional LEDs but with the output beam characteristics of a laser. Lasers also use an …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 21

New Near Eye Display Metrology Tools Introduced

by Chris Chinnock

We saw new developments in near eye display metrology at SID DisplayWeek from Gamma Scientific, Photo Research and Chroma. These are new tools that have been developed because of the unusual measurement needs of …

Light Field Display Papers at SID

by Chris Chinnock

There were three papers in the Light Field Display session (61) at SID DisplayWeek. First was Thomas Burnett of FoVI3D, formerly Zebra Imaging. He started his talk with a very nice definition of a …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Light Field Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Summary of Holographic Papers

by Chris Chinnock

Session 54 was called “Holographic” and was a catchall for some related papers. In the first paper, Kai-Han Chang from Kent State University talked about a novel way to reduce speckle in laser illumination. …

Tags:Holographic Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 21

LETI Shows First WVGA microLED Display

by Chris Chinnock

CEA-LETI presented two papers at DisplayWeek and showed a demo in their booth on the show floor. Their papers described a new monolithic bonding technique and the booth showed the results. In one paper, …

Tags:MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 21

AR/VR Optical Components Round-up

by Chris Chinnock

ColorLink Japan was showing some optical components for near to eye applications such as the E5-Dill embedded pico projector model. It features a 1280 x 720 LCOS panel from Miyota, RGB LEDs and output …

Projection Updates from SID

by Chris Chinnock

There were three papers in session 36 at DisplayWeek and some news from ColorLink. Overall, there was very little new information in the projection arena this year. In session 36, our own Matthew Brennesholtz …

First Metrology Workshop was Well Received

by Chris Chinnock

Metrology is the art and practice of measurement and the International Committee on Display Metrology (ICDM) is devoted to developing display measurement methods. At the SID DisplayWeek in LA this week, the group organized …

Tags:Automotive| Display Metrology| ICDM| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 20

What’s the Definition of an Immersive Display?

by Chris Chinnock

I have been talking to people a lot about immersive displays lately. That’s because the next Display Summit will have this as a focus theme. Most people think of Virtual Reality when you say …