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Quanta Takes 360° Video Mainstream

by Tom Allen

We missed this when it was announced at Computex, but Quanta is trying to lower the cost of producing VR content with a smartphone add-on camera. The camera, developed with Canada’s ImmerVision, is able …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Mobile Display Monitor| Quanta| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 25

Christie is Proud of its Lasers

by Tom Allen

Although Christie, like most companies at the show, was not launching any new products, it did have a clear focus on one particular area: laser projection. The company had provided one of its Solaria …

Tags:Christie| CineEurope 2016| Large Display Monitor| Laser Projectors| Vol 23 - Issue 25

Google Moving to Hardware

by Tom Allen

A Google-branded smartphone is in the works, according to the Telegraph. Designing its own hardware, as Microsoft found, would give Google more control over all aspects of the design – not just the Android …

Tags:Google| Manufacturing| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 25

Samsung Brings HDR to Hybrids

by Tom Allen

Samsung, with Best Buy, has launched a new convertible PC that can support HDR content – a first, as far as we’re aware. The new ‘Video HDR’ mode on the Notebook 7 Spin can …

BBC Prepares for UltraHD

by Tom Allen

The BBC has said that it is ‘stockpiling’ UltraHD footage, which Advanced Television states is in preparation for the launch of a dedicated channel about a year from now. The channel will be launched …

Huawei Wants to Reduce Reliance on Android

by Tom Allen

The Information claims that Huawei is developing its own smartphone OS, to reduce its reliance on Android. The company currently uses a custom skin for the Android OS (which has been criticised for looking …

Tags:Android| Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| Operating Systems| Vol 23 - Issue 25

Porsche Centre Chooses S[quadrat]

by Tom Allen

S[quadrat] of Germany recently completed an installation of its Sky LED display product series – also known as the NEC LiFT series – for Porsche Chicago. Porsche’s new showroom uses a 30m² Sky SI …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 25

NEC and S[quadrat] Secure Best LED at Infocomm

by Tom Allen

NEC showed its LiFT (3M Slims Touch at ISE) LED displays at Infocomm, which are developed with Germany’s S[quadrat]. One of the products – the L015Si – won an award for Best Direct View …

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 25

by Tom Allen

A source speaking to PC Games N has said that AOC will launch a pair of UltraHD monitors this year: one flat and one curved. Both displays will use Nvidia G-Sync, said the source. …

Starbreeze Plans Low Persistence and Eye Tracking

by Tom Allen

Road to VR‘s Ben Lang spoke to Emmanuel Marquez, CTO of Starbreeze VR, at E3 this month. We first began covering the firm about a year ago, when its HMD became famous for its …

Tags:Head Tracker| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 25

What Will Brexit Mean for Tech?

by Tom Allen

Last week, the UK public voted to leave the European Union – despite warnings about such a move by business leaders and independent bodies like the IFS. Although there have been questions raised about …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 25

BBC Abandons MHEG

by Tom Allen

Interactivity is currently enabled through the BBC Red Button serviceThe BBC has announced that it will move away from its current MHEG standard and begin to use HbbTV – the hybrid broadcast standard used …