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$1.8 Billion VC Funding for VR/AR in 2016

Last year, the funding for VR/AR companies reached $1.8 billion, ending much higher than in 2015. According to Greenlight Insights year-end ...

Deep Image Prior Fixes Image Quality

Deep Image Prior is an interesting technology for improving resolution and fixing images that have been damaged, for example, by having ...

TI Shows Range of DLP Products at CES 2017

TI had a suite in Central Hall at CES 2017 where they showed off mostly customer-based products using DLP chip sets, ...

DSCC’s Latest Quarterly OLED Supply/Demand and Capital Spending Report Upgrades OLED Shipments, Revenues and Equipment Spending

DSCC released its latest Quarterly OLED Supply/Demand and Capital Spending Report last week which included significant upgrades to OLED markets. OLED ...

Smartphone Market Volume to Reach 1.83 Billion Units by 2019 Growing at 7.1% CAGR

Worldwide Smartphone Market Forecast, 2015-2019 research report says while China is expected to occupy a lion’s share of global smartphone market ...

Lytro Looks to VR for New Technology Applications

Lytro has pivoted in its business and has been moving away from its static photography business (Lytro to Shift to Video ...

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Canon Adds More HDR Support

by Bob Raikes

Canon was showing a number of different displays including HDR reference monitors and an LCOS projector with HDR support. Products shown included the existing DP-V2420 which was introduced last year at IBC. The company …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| Canon| IBC 2017| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 35

BBC Updates on HLG Status

by Bob Raikes

Andrew Cotton from the BBC’s R&D department is one of the developers of the HLG EOTF and gave an update on the development of support for the technology as one of SES’s excellent technical …

Tags:BBC| HDR - High Dynamic Range| IBC 2017| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 35

Comwave Partners with Abox42 on New TV Service

by Andrew Fenn

Canadian communications firm Comwave has selected German set-top-box provider Abox42 and its M30-series STB for the launch of brand new IPTV service, ComwaveTV ComwaveTV, which launched on September 25th, is Comwave’s first television platform. …

Tags:Germany| IPTV| Large Display Monitor| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 37

System Plus Releases Analysis Report on LG Automotive Display

by Andrew Fenn

System Plus Consulting has released a new report analysing the LG LA080WV3 8″ in-car touch display and taking an in-depth look at why LG Display is one of the driving forces in the automotive …

Tags:Automotive| Back Panel| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| Teardowns| Vol 24 - Issue 36

Vivitek Projector Produces 12,000 Ansi Lumens

by Bob Raikes

Vivitek has a new laser projector high brightness projector, the DU8193Z which produces 12,000 Ansi lumens of output with 10,000:1 contrast and 1920 x 1200 (WUXGA) resolution. The unit uses a single 0.67″ DLP …

Tags:DLP Projectors| Installation Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Vivitek| Vol 24 - Issue 36

Poundland Updates POS Technology

by Bob Raikes

Low price retailer Poundland in the UK has installed 1,400 NCR self-service kiosks to speed up check out. 15 stores per week were upgraded over the 16 week project period.

Tags:Kiosks| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 37

USB 3.2 Announced

by Bob Raikes

USB 3.2 has now been published by the USB 3.0 Promoter Group. The new standard can deliver double the throughput of USB 3.1, by using dual lanes. Both source and devices need to support …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| USB| Vol 24 - Issue 36

Render of Samsung Windows Mixed Reality Headset Leaked on Twitter

by Andrew Fenn

Images have surfaced on Twitter of a Samsung VR headset displaying the Windows Mixed Reality symbol. Infamous technological whistle-blower @WalkingCat leaked the images out into the wild earlier this week, but elected not to …

Tags:AR/VR| Mixed Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 36

Thinfilm NFC Scanner App Released for iOS

by Andrew Fenn

With the release of iOS 11, Apple has extended the range of the iPhone’s near-field communication capabilities. A platform previously reserved for Apple Pay, near-field communication can now be used to deliver digital experiences …

Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| NFC| Vol 24 - Issue 35

Royal Institute of British Architects Transitions to Ultra HD

by Andrew Fenn

London’s Royal Institute of British Architects is in the process of updating its audiovisual infrastructure to UHD technology with the help of long-time AV partner Panasonic. The RIBA is one of London’s largest conference …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Projectors| UK (United Kingdom)| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 35

Qualcomm Extends Offer for NXP

by Bob Raikes

Frankly, the deal was done so long ago that it had slipped our minds, but now Qualcomm has extended its offer to buy NXP, a deal that was due to be concluded by Oct …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 24 - Issue 36