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SID’s AR/VR Week 2018

by Matthew Brennesholtz

VR Week in Los Angeles (more commonly called Display Week) is over and all the Meko people who attended are busy writing up their coverage of the event for the upcoming Display Week special …

Tags:Augmented Reality| SID Display Week 2018| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 21

Sapphire Points to Upcoming InfoComm

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Companies exhibiting at Sapphire Marketing’s New York City roadshow event were all looking to tap into the New York professional AV market at the heavily attended event on May 16th. In addition, the companies …

Tags:Digital Projection Inc (DPI)| Infocomm 2018| Large Display Monitor| Pro AV| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 25 - Issue 19

Virtual Reality: Defragmenting the Market

by Matthew Brennesholtz

I have written several times about standards for Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), most recently in my Display Daily last December that focused on the Virtual Reality Industry Forum (VRIF). This week …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Standards| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 19

Radiant Vision wins LFW Award for HMD Evaluation Lens

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Radiant Vision recently received a Gold Innovation Award from Laser Focus World for its lens designed to facilitate testing of near-eye displays (NEDs) such as AR and VR head-mounted displays. Currently there are no …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| ICDM| Measurement| Mobile Display Monitor| Testing| Vol 25 - Issue 19

PogoTec Announces Breakthrough AR System

by Matthew Brennesholtz

In a recent press release, PogoTec Inc. announced they had a breakthrough augmented reality (AR) system designed for the consumer mass market that would also be suitable for widespread use in the enterprise market. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 18

Can We Tell Stories With 8K?

by Matthew Brennesholtz

For anyone interested in the prospect of better image quality for cinema, television and mobile devices, the April issue of SMPTE’s Motion Imaging Journal is a must-read. Cover of the April edition of the …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| SMPTE| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 25 - Issue 17| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Video, Artificial Intelligence and Skynet Might be Scary!

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are making inroads into virtually every field of human endeavor, including the world of video content generation, distribution and display. Recently SMPTE hosted a webinar titled “Beyond …

Tags:SMPTE| Video Editing & Production| Vol 25 - Issue 15

N-Tech Announces Portable 4K Projector

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Hong Kong-based N-Tech is running an Indiegogo project for its portable 4K consumer projector. As of March 24th, this project had raised $808,246, which represents 3098% of the original funding target of $25,000, which …

Tags:DLP Projectors| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Portable Projectors| UltraHD (4KTV)

SLD Laser Technology and Applications

by Matthew Brennesholtz

SLD Laser, (formerly SoraaLaser) is a 2013 spin-out from Soraa Inc., developer and manufacturer of semi-polar GaN LEDs. SLD Laser focuses on semi-polar GaN blue lasers. I recently had a chance to talk to …

Tags:Laser| Li-Fi| Lighting| Vol 25 - Issue 13

Lensless Flat 3D Camera Needs A Lot of Computing

by Matthew Brennesholtz

One of my Display Daily’s last fall was titled “Ultra-Thin Cameras for Thinner Smartphones.” Those ultra-thin cameras were mostly based on computational photography, where the raw data from the image sensor requires serious computation …

Tags:5G| Cameras| Cloud Computing| Digital Photography| Light Field Cameras| Nvidia| Vol 25 - Issue 11

Prysm Introduces Second Generation LPD

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Prysm Inc. was founded as Spudnik in 2005, discussed its laser-phosphor display (LPD) at ISE 2010 and formally introduced its first generation TD-1 module as a product at InfoComm in 2010. This Prysm module …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Prysm| Video Walls| Vol 25 - Issue 10

VRstudios and Multi-Player 6DOF VR Games

by Matthew Brennesholtz

VRstudios provides six degree-of-freedom (6DOF) virtual reality (VR) systems for out-of-home entertainment centers such as theme parks. 6DOF VR systems allow the person wearing the VR head mounted display (HMD) to not only look …

Tags:eSports| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Location-based Entertainment (LBE)| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 10| WiGIG