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Nvidia Certifies VR-Ready Systems

by Tom Allen

Nvidia has announced a new programme called ‘GeForce GTX VR Ready’; a way to help gamers prepare for virtual reality. Through partnerships with PC and notebook makers, as well as add-in card providers, Nvidia …

Exertis Scores With Gaming Machines

by Tom Allen

Exertis is now carrying the full range of gaming notebooks from Gigabyte and Aorus, in the UK.

TCL Chooses Nanosys

by Tom Allen

TCL continues to grow, said North American VP Chris Larson at the company’s press conference. TCL was the largest TV exporter in China in 2015, for the seventh year in a row, and is …

TWC Adds Video Subscribers

by Tom Allen

Time Warner Cable reported that it added new 32,000 video customers in 2015 – the first time in nine years that a year has ended with an uptick in video subscribers.

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Time Warner| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 01

SMI’s High-Speed Eye Tracking Enables ‘Realistic VR’

by Tom Allen

SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) says it has showed a system to lower the requirements of virtual reality processing. Using the ‘foveated rendering’ technique, VR performance can be between two and four times higher than is …

Acer is Massively Mobile

by Tom Allen

Acer is never an official part of CES. Instead, the company just ‘happens’ to have a suite in a hotel somewhere in Las Vegas in early January! Isn’t it weird how these coincidences just …

Ultrahaptics is Coming This Year

by Tom Allen

We have covered Bristol-based Ultrahaptics before, in 2013 (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 23). The company has just completed a Series A funding round, which raised £10.1 million ($14.6 million), and says that its …

Video Devices Supports DCI-4k on Field Monitor

by Tom Allen

A high-resolution 7″ field monitor has been released by Video Devices, as the largest model in the company’s PIX-E series. Although its own display resolution is 1920 x 1200, the PIX-E7 can be used …

Tags:Field Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 23 - Issue 01

Pico Sales Expected to Rise 50% in 2015

by Tom Allen

Pico projector unit sales are expected to have climbed 50% YoY in 2015, according to a forecast by PMA Research. During Q1-Q3’15, global pico and personal projector sales rose 49% YoY. Revenues were also …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pico Projectors| PMA Research| Vol 23 - Issue 01

LG’s Signature is Pure and Gimmick-Free

by Tom Allen

William Cho, president and CEO of LG USA, opened the company’s press conference on the 5th January – traditionally the first display-related presentation of the show. He described LG’s theme this year (‘Innovation for …

Germany: Apple Raises iPhone Prices

by Tom Allen

Apple has raised the price of its iPhone in Germany. The company, along with Samsung and other smartphone makers, agreed to pay a fee of €5-€7 for each phone or tablet imported to the …

Acer Signs New LATAM Deals

by Tom Allen

Acer has announced that Bahamas Telecommunications and Ecuador’s Corporacion Nacional de Telecomunicaciones will now sell its smartphones and wearables in Latin America.

Tags:Acer| LATAM| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 01