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Industry Prepares for OLED Summit

by Tom Allen

Several members of the technology industry will present at the OLEDs 2016 World Summit, it has been announced. The Summit will run from the 20th – 22nd May in San Diego, with discussions focusing …

BBC Moves to VR

by Tom Allen

The BBC is working on producing ‘true VR’ content, and has unveiled its first work in the space. Several of its experiments have been posted to BBC Taster (http://tinyurl.com/jxeqqex). These are differentiated from the …

Tags:Back Panel| BBC| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 23

AOC Takes on Independence Day

by Tom Allen

The sequel to 1996 blockbuster Independence Day – Independence Day: Resurgence – is being sponsored by AOC, as its official monitor partner. AOC screens will be featured in the film, and the company and …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| MMD (AOC Philips)| Vol 23 - Issue 23

Lenovo Has Simpler Concept to Challenge Ara

by Tom Allen

Google’s Project Ara was a unique concept when it was first introduced, back in 2014: a modular smartphone, which users could modify to suit their tastes. The battery, camera and even display could all …

Tags:Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| Pico Projectors| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 23

Project Tango Coming This Year – With Lenovo

by Tom Allen

Just after meeting with Lenovo at CES 2016, we were told that the company would be producing the first Project Tango smartphone for Google (Lenovo Deluge Led by OLED Notebook). Project Tango is a …

SID 2016 Video Roundup

by Tom Allen

We recorded two videos at the SID Display Week: one with Sri Peruvemba, head of marketing for the SID organisation and the man responsible for promoting Display Week; and another with Dave Hagan of …

SID’s Innovation Zone Holds New Pixels and Interfaces

by Tom Allen

This week, we bring you some of the final SID stories that we weren’t able to include in our main event report. These come from the I-Zone: a forum for live demonstrations of emerging …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 22

Sony Monitors Show D56 Colour Temp

by Tom Allen

Sony’s new medical monitors meet the demand for 1920 x 1080 colour displays in applications such as surgical endoscopy. In addition to D65 and D93, the LMD-2735MD (27″) and LMD-2435MD (24″) can utilise the …

Tags:Dicom Medical Calibration| Large Display Monitor| Medical| sony| Vol 23 - Issue 22

VR used to Restore Destroyed Museum

by Tom Allen

Iraq’s Mosul Museum was invaded, and some of its artefacts destroyed, by the terrorist group Isis in 2015. However, the site can now be explored virtually, thanks to Visualise, The Economist and non-profit group …

Tags:Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 22

Green Hippo Lights Up Eurovision

by Tom Allen

Eurovision has always been a spectacle, and the 2016 show was no different: more than 900m² of LED displays and a host of HDQ-2K40 projectors from Barco were used in the production. These were …

Panasonic Shifts Pixels at Infocomm

by Tom Allen

The PT-RQ32K is a high-brightness 5k (5120 x 3200) projector, which Panasonic is showing off at Infocomm this week. Developed for rental and staging, the unit reaches 27,000 centre lumens and a 240Hz refresh …

VESA Launches USB Test Programme

by Tom Allen

Click to enlargeVESA has launched an early certification test programme, for products using the USB-C connector and DisplayPort Alt Mode standard. The ‘DisplayPort Alt Mode over USB-C Early Product Certification Programme’ is intended to …