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IDC Lowers PC Outlook for 2015, While the Long-Term Outlook Improves Slightly

Worldwide PC shipments are expected to fall by -4.9% in 2015, a drop from the previous forecast of -3.3%, while growth ...

USB Type-C Connector Will Now Support HDMI 1.4b Signaling

HDMI, LLC used IFA to announce new support functionality for the USB 3.1 Type C connector. When placed in Alt mode, ...

Asus Reveals First Chrome Hybrid

Four new Chromebooks have been previewed at a Google event in the USA – including the first convertible device running the ...

Rakuten and Bic Camera Work Together on Clicks & Mortar

The Nikkei reports that Bic Camera and Rakuten in the country to establish a joint venture. Bic Camera has a store ...

Insight TV Joins SES ULTRA HD Platform in North America

SES S.A. (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) today announced a strategic capacity and playout agreement with TERN to deliver ...

Philips Introduces “Safe Blue” Desktop Monitor at IFA

Philips introduced a new technology that eliminates “harmful” blue light from LED backlights, while still giving a colour balance that looks ...

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Mstar and Irdeto Secure China DRM

by Alan Spencer

Irdeto and MStar Semiconductor have partnered to secure premium content for video service providers in China. This will give operators and content owners in China, more control and confidence to launch premium content services, …

Tags:China| DRM & Content Protection| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 24 - Issue 12

AR/MR/VR @ SXSWedu: Competing Perspectives

by Len Scrogan

With the AR/MR/VR market expected to hit $150 billion by 2020, schools, colleges and universities are now getting the hard sell on making an investment in the “next big thing.” In a well-attended SXSWedu …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Education| Large Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 13

Virtual Elephants Trek the World

by Alan Spencer

Conservation campaigners in the UK, have welcomed the arrival of March for Giants, which is the world’s first virtual elephant herd. March for Giants is raising funds for Space for Giants, a conservation charity …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| LED| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Poster Comes to Life with Kinect

by Bob Raikes

We were intrigued to see a video taken at the recent SXSW event that showed an ‘Uncle Sam’ recruitment poster that uses Kinect technology to track the viewer and point ‘I want you’ in …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Sensors| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Lightvert Now On the BBC

by Bob Raikes

We reported on UK-based Lightvert (Lightvert Has Large Displays… or not…) which has developed a system for creating huge LED-based displays on tall buildings that exploit the persistence of vision. Now, the BBC has …

Tags:Back Panel| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| LED| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Disney Stays Away from VR for Now

by Norbert Hildebrand

During an USC (University of Southern California) Marshall and Annenberg event in Santa Monica, CA, Bob Iger, CEO of Disney said that the firm will not be looking at installing any VR rides at …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Disney| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 12

VR and AR are Everywhere You Look

by Bob Raikes

This week we seem to have lots of stories about VR and with more to come, as I was at Laval Virtual this week. We’ll have our report next week, mainly in MDM. In …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Royole Gets Gold Award for its Moon 3D Virtual Mobile Theatre

by Alan Spencer

Royole Corporation has won a gold award in the European product design award competition for its Moon 3D Virtual Mobile Theatre. The award was in the Media and Home Electronics – Consumer Electronics and …

Tags:Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Royole Named Winner of Prestigious European Product Design Award

by Isaac Oburu

Royole Corporation, a leading innovator and manufacturer of next-generation human-machine interface technologies and products such as advanced flexible displays, flexible sensors, and smart devices, has been honored with a Gold Award in the highly …

Tags:Awards| Europe

Iiyama PCap Display Uses AMVA+

by Bob Raikes

Iiyama has a new open frame 27″ PCap touch display, the TF2738MSC-B1 designed for in-store retail, digital signage and interactive presentations – either on-wall or on-table. The display joins the 34 & 38 series …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Iiyama| Large Display Monitor| Touch| Vol 24 - Issue 12

iiyama’s Multi-usage 27” High-contrast PCAP Touch

by Isaac Oburu

iiyama, one of the leading providers of high quality professional displays, has announced the new TF2738MSC-B1, a 27” multi-usage AMVA+ PCAP touch solution, with edge-to-edge, anti-glare, scratch-resistant glass. Intended for aesthetically demanding users across …

Tags:Pcap (Procap)| Touch Displays

Scientists Improve Colour Vision

by Bob Raikes

Metamerism is an interesting problem of colour vision and the term is used to describe situations where a colour looks the same as another, but measures as something different. Sometimes, colours measure the same, …

Tags:Colour (Color)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 12