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Virtual Reality Headset Market Forecast CES Update

by Steve Sechrist

The VR AR space is a niche market at best, barely showing up as a rounding error in the recent CEA market update given on press day one at CES 2017. The CTA Extended …

CES 2017 What’s Driving the Virtual Reality Initiative?

by Steve Sechrist

Intel made a significant push into VR to kick off its CES presence in 2017. The focus was an “all-in” approach that the company took by devoting its full 45 minute press day presentation …

Tags:CES 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus VR| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Intel Pushes VR Boundaries at CES Press Day

by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it, at CES 2017 Intel hosted the most “unique and technically complex event” the company has ever held, according to Laura Anderson from Intel corporate communications. She kicked-off the 45 …

Will 2017 See VR Content Tipping Point?

by Steve Sechrist

As 2016 winds down, we enter the season of prophecy for next year’s digital future, and Virtual Reality (VR) content is being predicted as perhaps hitting a tipping point with “Mass Expansion of VR …

Tags:Content Creation| Emerging Markets| Market Data| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 49

LumiDrive from Lightspeed Takes on Aftermarket HUD

by Steve Sechrist

Flat panel LCD and OLED’s aren’t the only displays looking to the automotive market for sustainable growth. A new aftermarket HUD system is proposed by Seattle based Lightspeed Interface, with details presented to the …

The Advent of OLED Fabric Displays?

by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it, sometime between cooking that turkey and ordering your first Christmas gift, the folks at Korea’s national research lab KAIST said they’ve developed a process that can lead to wearable …

Road to Connected Car Runs Through Samsung

by Steve Sechrist

Samsung Electronics made an $8B (all cash) tender offer to acquire US based Harman International Industries, Inc., a leading auto system integrator with a heavy focus on business to business (B to B) IoT …

Smartwatch Market Grows Cold with Same Old Designs

by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it, Apple’s non-growth in the Smartwatch market has hit a new high (errr, low?) with a whopping -72% market growth (year over year) according to data from IDC last week. …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Smartwatches| Vol 23 - Issue 43| Wearable Market| Wearables

E Ink Finds a Niche in, well… WayFinding

by Steve Sechrist

E Ink Holdings, maker of low powered electrophoretic displays, said today the company has deployed over 600 displays in various sizes (ranging from 32-, 9.7- and 6.8-inch diagonal) black and white signs. The digital …

LG OLEDs Reach Reference Studio Monitor Class

by Steve Sechrist

Remember the gold standard ($50K or so) CRT reference studio monitors for the broadcast industry? They’ve just been matched by a commercial class OLED TV, according to Dr. Ray Soneira and the recent DisplayMate …

iPhone7 New Groundbreaking Display The Best News That Wasn’t

by Steve Sechrist

There was no news of Apple’s iPhone 7 display at the recent launch event for the iPhone 7 series. The new display components introduced two new benchmarks for mobile LCD displays, with the lowest …

Smartphone Forecast Drops as Competition Builds

by Steve Sechrist

For the second time in three months market research firm IDC cut its smartphone forecast amid maturing world-wide markets as competitive forces continue to build in the space. New research released this week from …