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by Chris Chinnock
Brother International Corporation was at NAB to show off its high-definition head-mounted display, the monocular AiRScouter WD-330C. It is optimized for video production applications such as a remote camera viewfinder. But it is not …
Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| NAB 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 17
by Chris Chinnock
Epson announced no new products at NAB, but was there to show off its projectors and AR headset, the BT-300, especially the new Drone Edition version. They made the point that this may be …
Tags:Augmented Reality| Epson| Mobile Display Monitor| NAB 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 17
by Chris Chinnock
Augmented TV is a concept where a phone, tablet or headset is used to add additional information for the user while watching TV in a traditional living room situation. We saw examples from Technicolor, …
Tags:Augmented Reality| Ericsson| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NAB 2017| NHK| Technicolor| Vol 24 - Issue 17
by Chris Chinnock
Canon was showing a projection-based HDR demo at NAB that was not too bad, in my view. The projector was their 4K501ST that was modified to cover the full DCI-P3 color gamut. Content was …
Tags:Canon| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 17
by Chris Chinnock
Akyumen is about to offer some new mobile products to U.S. customers that include embedded pico projectors. These products are more popular in Asia and I am not sure if the company will have …
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by Chris Chinnock
Canon was showing a dome theater in its booth at NAB that was frankly, not very good. Content was captured with seven Canon C-300 Mark II DSLRs in a Radiant Images rig. Time lapse …
Tags:Canon| Dome Projection| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 17
by Chris Chinnock
Frank Poradish of Brass Roots Technology gave an overview of the evolution of digital projection in the cinema touching on the latest trends in resolution, higher contrast, laser illumination, higher frame rates and wide …
Tags:Cinema| Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 17
by Chris Chinnock
Tyler Pruitt from SpectraCal, now part of Portrait Display, said that calibrating an HDR display is much harder than an SDR display. With HDR content, there is almost always a color volume remapping function …
Tags:Display Metrology| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2017| Portrait Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 17
by Chris Chinnock
Liz Pieri of Dolby Labs gave a presentation explaining why in HDR displays, one should really use the ICtCp color space instead of the Lab space. The reason is that using the DeltaE2000 metric …
Tags:Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 17
by Chris Chinnock
Matt Cowen of Entertainment Technology Consultants, talked about metamers. He explained that when you move from broadband primaries, for example, from a Xenon lamp, to very narrow band primaries, as seen in RGB laser …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Laser Projectors| | NAB 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 17
by Chris Chinnock
For virtual reality capture, there are two basic techniques: Inside out features an array of cameras on a single rig looking outward. This is most common type of VR capture Outside in features dozens …
Tags:Fraunhofer| Large Display Monitor| Light Field Displays| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| NAB 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 17
by Chris Chinnock
NAB 2017 was the official debut of a new company: Light Field Lab. It is composed of the top engineers from Lytro who led the light field cinema camera initiatives, debuted at NAB 2016 …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Light Field Displays| NAB 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 17
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