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Oculus Reveals Higher Price than Expected

by Norbert Hildebrand

The price of AR/VR headsets was always seen as one of the main hurdles for mass adoption of this new technology. For quite some time, Oculus as the poster child of the VR industry, …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus Rift| Oculus VR| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 02

Intel Shows Thunderbold 3 and New Compute Sticks

by Norbert Hildebrand

While the Intel Compute Stick and Thunderbolt technologies are not completely new, they were either shown at CES for the first time or replaced with newer models. The Thunderbolt 3 is the Intel implementation …

Automotive HUD Round-Up

by Norbert Hildebrand

With cars taking up a good portion of the CES exhibit space, the interest and availability of head up displays (HUD) was everywhere. While in the past years HUDs were a standalone technology to …

Royole Shows Smart Mobile Theater

by Norbert Hildebrand

Royole may not be on your horizon of display developers and manufacturers, but they have closed a Series C funding of $172 million for a total of $190 million in funding. While this does …

Atmel Shows Force Sensitive Touch Screen

by Norbert Hildebrand

Atmel demonstrated their touch controller line for automotive and other applications at CES, which allows input with moisture / water present as well as using a glove or a stylus. These robust touch control …

AR / VR Device Round – Up

by Norbert Hildebrand

Lumus Optical, the Israel-based developer showed their latest LCOS based DK 50 binocular AR device as well as some older models for comparison. Unlike other technologies, they couple their image into a planar waveguide …

Kopin Focuses on AR / VR Technology

by Norbert Hildebrand

At CES 2016 Kopin did not show any new Cyber displays, instead they showed some impressive designs for a monocular headset. The new solution focuses on the optics to bring the image to the …

Projection Round-Up

by Norbert Hildebrand

Casio showed the new XJ-V2 hybrid laser projector with 3,000 lumens and XGA (1024 x 768) resolution. The projector is the second in the line of XJ-V projectors, with more to follow at a …

Microvision demos Light Engine with Embedded Depth Sensor

by Norbert Hildebrand

Microvision showed a wide variety of devices based on their scanned laser PicoP engine, from stand alone projectors to embedded phone projectors. These devices have been around for quite some time without making a …

Optoma Shows 4K / UHD Projector Prototype

by Norbert Hildebrand

Optoma was the first to show a prototype with the brand new TI 0.67” 4K / UHD DLP chip (see also the Texas Instrument article). The projector is a very early prototype projector and …

Cypress Releases Automotive MCU and Touch Controller

by Norbert Hildebrand

Cypress Semiconductor released a new 32 bit MCU for automotive applications. The processor uses 40nm design rules for the first time (until now Cypress used 55nm) allowing the firm to incorporate more flash on …

Corning Shows Ideas for Glass in the Future

by Norbert Hildebrand

Corning is a material supplier to many parts of the consumer electronics, even though they typically do not supply any devices under the Corning brand name. One exception to this business approach is in …