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VueReal Goes to $40 Million, Expanding MicroLED Production With Canadian Government Help

by Omid Rahmat

The Ontario and Canadian governments are supporting a $40 million investment by Waterloo-based start-up VueReal with $10.5 million in joint funding. To be clear, that sounds like the $33 million that VueReal has already …

Tags:Manufacturing| MicroLED| VueReal

Samsung-Funded Research Could Lead to Ultrahigh-Resolution MicroLEDs With 40% Lower Heat Generation

by Omid Rahmat

With funding from the Samsung Future Technology Incubation Center, Professor Sang Hyeon Kim and his team of researchers from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology …

Tags:MicroLED| research

AR/MR Display Company Raises $20 Million With Strategic Investment From Sharp

by Omid Rahmat

OQmented is a technology company that specializes in MEMS-based AR/MR display and 3D sensing solutions. The company was founded in 2018 by Thomas von Wantoch and Dr. Ulrich Hofmann and has since grown to …

Tags:Augmented Reality| MEMS| MR (Mix Reality)| OQmented

How the US Military Could Save AR From Itself

by Omid Rahmat

In 2018, Microsoft won a $479 million deal to develop a prototype headset based on HoloLens for the US Army. The military believes that AR can provide soldiers with a visual advantage, similar to …

Tags:AR Glasses| Hololens| Microsoft

Apple Leaking Like a Sieve Over Mixed Reality Headset Plans

by Omid Rahmat

The vision for an Apple mixed reality headset may have its origin in its famed design department under Jon Ivey. Since then it’s been nothing but hype and leaks, with a level of uncharacteristic …

Tags:Apple| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mixed Reality

TCL Goes Into Production on 1mm Bezel Panels

by Omid Rahmat

A combination of flexible AMOLED in-cell active array (FIAA) and voltage-source sharing (VSS) technology has given the company its first 1 mm bezel smartphone panels. TCL claims to have developed narrow border display technology …

Tags:smartphone| TCL

Snap AR Wants to Enable Businesses and Brands to Integrate

by Omid Rahmat

Snap has unveiled AR Enterprise Services (ARES), a new enterprise solution for businesses to integrate Snap’s Augmented Reality (AR) into their owned and operated channels. ARES’ inaugural offering is for retail, and among the first group …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Snap

Vizio Gets a Step Closer to MRR With Ad Serving Deal

by Omid Rahmat

The company recently made a deal with Whip Media to manage its ad revenue reporting for WatchFree+. As a pretty hefty US TV brand already, the company has managed to start making a transition …

Tags:Smart TV| Vizio

Revolutionary Sprayable Nanoparticles Could Unveil a New Era of Flexible Displays and Devices

by Omid Rahmat

An international group of scientists has been diligently working to develop a unique inkable nanomaterial that holds immense potential in revolutionizing the world of ultra-thin, lightweight, and bendable displays and devices. Researchers in this …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Zinc Oxide

Korean Startup, Prazen, Wants to Show You Its Next Generation AR

by Omid Rahmat

Prazen was founded and is run by its CEO, Heekyung Kim. The company comes out of Samsung’s creative lab (C-Lab), an incubator of sorts for new startups coming out of that company’s research labs. …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality| AWE 2023| Prazen

Gaming Monitors Still Growing Despite Lagging 2023

by Omid Rahmat

There is currently an excess of gaming monitors in the market, which means it will take some time for inventories to return to normal but that’s just slowing down growth, not killing it. Gaming …

Tags:Gaming Monitor| Market Data

Display Shipments: Party Like It’s 2019

by Omid Rahmat

Strategizing display manufacturing post-pandemic has no historical context or roadmap that you can call on to provide some succor. Market prognostications suffer from a similar malaise. It may be that the best you can …

Tags:Manufacturing| Supply Chain