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Premium OTT Set for Significant Growth in Europe

Research commissioned by Vindicia and Ooyala shows that the premium OTT market is set to grow 80% over the next three ...

Blu-Ray Disc Association Provides Status Update

We had a chance to meet with the Blu-ray Disc Association at CES and get an update. This update was mostly ...

Paris and Prague to host CES Unveiled Events Abroad in 2016

Today the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)™, formerly the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)®, announced the return of its CES Unveiled event series ...

HTC’s One E9 Appears as Upgrade to One M9

Last year, HTC offered a lower-priced version of the One M8 smartphone called the One E8; it sacrificed the metal body ...

Foxconn-Sharp Deal Falls by $2 Billion

Foxconn is trying to reduce its offer to Sharp by 10% – 20%, we heard last week (Foxconn Seeks to Lower ...

Sky Finalises Deutschland Buyout

Despite Sky Deutschland initially recommending that its shareholders reject the deal, the company has now been fully acquired by BSkyB (‘Sky’) ...

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Samsung & Anyo Collaborate for Microsoft

by Bob Raikes

Ayno, an Italian A/V integrator has helped Microsoft to move to a new ‘Microsoft House’ in via Pasubio, Milan. The idea was to create an open space for collaboration and all spaces, regardless of …

Tags:Italy| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Samsung| Video Walls| Vol 25 - Issue 01

A VR Surprise Ball: Merge VR

by Len Scrogan

The holiday season was a mixed and dizzying experience for me this year, to say the least. The lead-up week to the holidays included Christmas surprise balls, a stressful cross-country move, the entire-family-gathering thing, …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Education| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 03

Netflix Hits Parity with Pay TV

by Steve Sechrist

In caseA recent report from Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLC (PwC), the “Consumer Intelligence Series Video Survey, 2017 report” claims that the same number of people who subscribe to pay-TV also subscribe to the Netflix video …

Tags:Market Data| Movies & Content| Netflix| Pay TV| Vol 25 - Issue 01

Escaping the Curse of the Optional in the Ed-Tech Market

by Len Scrogan

A Texas professor, having collected AR children’s books (books that offer innovative AR components to accompany the textual reading) for some time, took the opportunity to ask a group of captive teachers to review …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Education| Mixed Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 02

Apple Reported to be Unifying iOS and MacOS

by Bob Raikes

Apple is reported by Bloomberg to be working on unifying the iOS and macOS operating systems by allowing a single code base and supporting the mouse and trackpad on Mac devices in iOS. The …

Tags:Apple| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Operating Systems| Vol 25 - Issue 01

The Void Announces New Locations for 2018

by Andrew Fenn

Virtual reality arcade gaming experience, The Void, is coming to Las Vegas and California in 2018, the company has announced. Both of the new locations will feature the firm’s Star Wars: Secrets of the …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 01

Pico Has a Standalone VR Headset

by Bob Raikes

Pico is a Chinese company with 300 employees globally and has released a standalone (no smartphone or PC needed) VR headset. The display is a 5.5″ ‘super fast’ LCD with 2560 x 1440 resolution. …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 01

Investigation Into VR Death Launched

by Andrew Fenn

A 44-year-old man in Moscow has died after apparently falling into a glass table while wearing a VR headset. The man’s body was discovered at his home on Thursday. He had suffered serious wounds …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 01

Google looking at Boosting Wearables

by Bob Raikes

According to a report in ‘The Information’, Google is looking to boost its hardware presence by increasing its resources in wearables. The company has increased the staffing level at its Shanghai plant from 20 …

Tags:Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 25 - Issue 01| Wearables

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DSCC: Quarterly OLED Revenues Over $5B in Q3’17

by Bob Raikes

Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) has released the first issue of its Quarterly OLED Shipment and Fab Utilization Report Quarterly OLED revenues exceeded $5 billion for the first time in Q3 17 and are …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Small Medium Panel Supply| Vol 25 - Issue 01

Pimax Raises Series A Funding

by Bob Raikes

We reported on a prototype headset at IFA (Showstoppers Busy with Headsets & Smartwatches) and the NY VR Expo (NYVR Expo and Conference) and the company has completed a kickstarter campaign that raised $2.45 …

Tags:Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 01