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Tech Spending in ME, Turkey, and Africa Close to $100 Billion in 2023

by Omid Rahmat

Overall spending on information and communications technology (ICT) across the Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa (META) will top $233.8 billion this year, an increase of 3.9% over 2022. That’s according to the latest predictions …

Tags:Macroeconomics| MEA (Middle East & Africa)

Barco’s Recovery Continues

by Omid Rahmat

Barco’s NT series goes beyond expectations for LED walls, with “sharp, light and clever” solutions Because an LED video wall is only as good as its image processing, Barco has developed Infinipix Gen2. This powerful …

Tags:Barco| ISE 2023

The 2 Billion User Sweet Spot

by Omid Rahmat

Apple, Alphabet (nee Google), and Amazon all reported their financials as the reporting season reaches its peak. Frankly, you can pore over the endless chatter about the results, but this paragraph is about all …

Tags:Alphabet| Amazon| Apple| Financial Data

FTC Denied in VR Merger Case with Meta

by Omid Rahmat

On July 25, 2022, Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”) filed a petition to recuse Chair Lina M.Khan from participating in any decision concerning the Commission’s review of Meta’sproposed merger with Within Unlimited, Inc (“Within”). Meta …

Tags:meta| oculus| VR

Meta’s Reality Labs Lost $13.7 Billion in 2022

by Omid Rahmat

The company’s 2022 results has gotten the financial analyst tribe back on board especially as Mark Zuckerberg touted 2023 as the “year of efficiency.” Nevertheless the Meta Reality portion of the company continues to …

Tags:Financial Data| meta| Oculus VR

Samsung, Qualcomm, and Google Form the No-Apple Android XR Alliance

by Omid Rahmat

Roh would not elaborate on the specifics of Samsung’s first new XR product, which will not appear at Wednesday’s launch event. “We’re getting there, but we’re not too far away,” he said. “For the …

Tags:Apple| Google| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Qualcomm| Samsung| XR

First Full-Color LCDs using CQD Lasers as Backlight

by Omid Rahmat

Thanks to the narrow line width and high brightness, colloidal quantum dot (CQD) lasers show promising applications in next-generation displays. However, CQD laser-based displays have yet to be demonstrated because of two challenges in …

Tags:Colloidal Quantum Dots| Laser| LCD Backlights

MIT Engineers Develop New Way to Make Defect-Free Displays

by Omid Rahmat

Micro-LEDs (µLEDs) have been explored for augmented and virtual reality display applications that require extremely high pixels per inch and luminance. However, conventional manufacturing processes based on the lateral assembly of red, green and …

Tags:MicroLED| research

Life, Be Bloomed: Trade Shows are Back

by Omid Rahmat

At ISE 2022, LG showcased a Magnit 136 inch UHD display. At ISE 2023 it is the Magnit 272 inch microLED 8K. Is this a sign of the might of expos as they make …

Tags:ISE 2023| LG| Magnit

Worldwide Devices Shipments to Continue 2022 Decline in 2023

by Omid Rahmat

Worldwide shipments of total devices (PCs, tablets and mobile phones) are projected to decline 4.4% in 2023, to total 1.7 billion units, according to Gartner (also see fourth quarter PC shipments). In 2022, the …

Tags:Gartner| Market Data| Mobile Phones| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)