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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)

TV Viewing Feeling the Economic Pinch

by Omid Rahmat

Subscription TV services suffered during the fourth quarter, perhaps as a result of the cost of living crisis. Just over 15% of Americans say they don’t use any TV subscription services now, up +2.8 …

Tags:Attest| TV Viewing

Qualcomm is Turning Heads in Headsets

by Omid Rahmat

Qualcomm seems to dominating XR headsets. In an interview from CES that only recently surfaced, Hugo Swart, Qualcomm’s VP and GM of its XR efforts, talked with VentureBeat and talked about how the 60+ …

Tags:Head Up Displays HUDs| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Qualcomm

Nothing Phone (2) Aims for the US Market in 2023

by Omid Rahmat

In an interview on Inverse, Carl Pei, the CEO and co-founder of Nothing, the fashionista’s mobile phone of choice, confirmed that the Nothing Phone (2) was going to make the US its number one …

Tags:Nothing Phone| Smartphones

The Deuteration of OLEDs

by Omid Rahmat

Isowater, a vendor of deuterium oxide (D2O), claims to have achieved a major technological breakthrough with its first production of market-grade D2O on its way to producing sustainable long-term commercial supplies of deuterium oxide. …

Tags:Deutration| Isowater| OLED