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Hayden Planetarium and Christie Lead the Way to HDR Domed Solutions

by Chris Chinnock

The New York-based American Museum of Natural History, where the famous Hayden Planetarium is housed, held a press event on July 17 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing, along …

Tags:6p Laser| Christie| Dome Projection| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Laser Projectors| Planetariums

A Different Way of Looking at LED Developments

by Chris Chinnock

When considering the trends in LEDs, we often divide our discussion in to categories like microLED, miniLED and Narrow Pixel Pitch (NPP) LED. Let me throw out the idea of discussing trends based upon …

Tags:Flexible Displays| MicroLED| MiniLED| Samsung| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Transparent Displays

8K – It’s Not Just About More Pixels

by Chris Chinnock

In preparing for the 8K Display Summit on June 11, one of the presenters, Mark Henninger, the editor of AVS Forum, gave me an abstract that makes a really good point. While many fixate …

Tags:6K| Super Hi-Vision (8K)

Envisics Shows Impressive Augmented Reality Auto HUD

by Chris Chinnock

After working for a year in stealth mode, holography pioneer and auto head-up display (HUD) developer Envisics showed off their advanced solution at CES 2019. I missed that demo, but the company invited me …

Tags:Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs| Holographic Displays

How Game of Thrones Broke Streaming and Why We Need to Fix It

by Chris Chinnock

In case you have been under a rock lately, the most popular streaming TV show of all time, Game of Thrones, created a chorus of complaints about how dim “The Long Night” episode was. …

Tags:Codecs| Netflix| OTT Video| Streaming Video| Video Quality

IDEA Group Formed for Advanced Display Distribution Standards

by Chris Chinnock

A press conference at the 2019 NAB Show was used to launch the Immersive Digital Experiences Alliance (IDEA). Its mission is to create a suite of royalty-free specifications that address all immersive media formats, …

Tags:3D software| Augmented Reality| Distribution| Holographic Displays| Light Field Displays| Virtual Reality

CY Vision Developing Next Gen HUD Technology

by Chris Chinnock

CY Vision (San Jose, CA) is a company that has been quietly developing advanced Head-up Display (HUD) technology but is now ready to start talking about what it has been doing. In a call …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive| Autostereo 3D| Head Up Displays HUDs

A Visit to Plessey Semiconductor

by Chris Chinnock

Who is Plessey Semiconductor, you may ask? This does not sound like a display company, but it is. Based in Plymouth, UK, Plessey Semiconductor is developing wafer-scale microLEDs ideally suited for AR, VR and …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Head Up Displays HUDs| MicroLED

A Tour of the Vuzix Waveguide Factory

by Chris Chinnock

I recently had the opportunity to meet with Vuzix CEO Paul Travers and get a tour of their waveguide manufacturing and AR headset assembly facility in Rochester, New York. These waveguides are the key …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Vuzix| Waveguide Display

Glasses-free Displays at CES

by Chris Chinnock

We met with four companies at CES: Vision Engineering, Creal 3D, Dimenco and StreamTV. StreamTV had a very good location right in central hall next to the LG Electronics booth. They were highlighting their …

Tags:3D display| Autostereo 3D| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Light Field Displays

MicroTiles LED Offers Nice Innovations that Could be Disruptive

by Chris Chinnock

Christie has just introduced a new LED-based MicroTile solution that will replace the DLP-based version it introduced in 2010 time frame. Just as the DLP-based version offered a new form factor and design options …

Tags:Christie| HDR - High Dynamic Range| ISE 2019| LED| Video over IP (VIP)| Video Walls

VR I Didn’t See at CES

by Chris Chinnock

At CES, I had a chance to see some of the AR innovations, but there was not enough time to check out VR as well. And I missed a ton of stuff. According to …

Tags:CES 2019| Haptics| HTC| PlayStation| Virtual Reality