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Opera Adds 360° VR Video Playback Support

Opera has integrated support for up to 360° video playback for OpenVR-compatible headsets such as the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive ...

Thales Demonstrates a Large Size In-Flight Entertainment System

Looking to improve the passenger in-flight entertainment experience, aerospace company Thales (France) has developed a 21.3-inch HD LCD touchscreen display system ...

3M Unveils State-of-the-Art Research and Development Laboratory at Global Headquarters

Innovation comes in many forms. Whether it’s a new design to make a product more useful to the customer or a ...

Microsoft Opens Flagship Store in NYC

Microsoft has opened a flagship retail store on Fifth Avenue in New York – just a few blocks from Apple’s iconic ...

NEC Laser Cinema Projector Installed in Portugal

NEC Display Solutions in Europe has announced that its new projection technology, the NC3540LS cinema laser projector, was installed at the ...

Spanish Pay-TV Subscribers Now Over 6 million

According to Spain’s competition watchdog, Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), at the end of the third quarter ...

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Displaydata Plans new ESLs for Freezers

by Bob Raikes

DisplayData has announced a new ESL product, the Aura29F, which is designed for freezers and works down to -25ºC. The label is 3.4 x 1.7 x 0.5 in / 87 x 43 x 13 …

Tags:Back Panel| Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 49

DTG Testing offers Freeview Play Conformance Testing

by Bob Raikes

DTG Testing is offering testing services for the latest (D-Book 9) Freeview Play conformance. Any combination of the following elements is now available: Freeview HD/D-Book 9 Compliance Testing Metadata Delivery & Presentation Testing Platform …

Tags:DTG| Large Display Monitor| Testing| Vol 23 - Issue 49

Nikon Promotes 360 Camera

by Bob Raikes

Nikon held an event in New York to promote its recently released KeyMission 360 action camera. The company showed content uploaded to YouTube and viewed on Cardboard and Daydream devices. 8ninths, a creative company, …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 49

Coretronic Sees Mixed Fortunes

by Yvette Raikes

Coretronic recorded November sales of NTD5.0 billion ($157.6 million), down 9% YoY, bringing year-to-date turnover to NTD51.96 billion ($1.6 billion), a drop of 17%. The company shipped 4.89 million energy-saving devices during November, which …

Tags:Coretronic| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 49

HDMI 2.0b Can Support HLG HDR

by Bob Raikes

HDMI has modified HDMI 2.0b again, to add support for the HLG HDR format. The HDMI Forum said “Previously, HDMI Specification Version 2.0b (HDMI 2.0b) only supported HDR (High Dynamic Range) video transport in …

Tags:HDMI| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 49

Iiyama Changes 84″ Plan to 86″

by Bob Raikes

At the Technology Exposed show, Iiyama told us that it was planning a new 84″ multitouch display, but this seems to have been modified to be an 86″, the TH8667MIS-B1AG which has UltraHD resolution …

Tags:Iiyama| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 49

Samsung Bricks Remaining Note 7s

by Bob Raikes

To avoid potential legal issues, Samsung is to issue a software update that will stop Note 7 devices from charging so that the devices will become useless. Initially, Verizon said that it was not …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 49

Asustek Optimistic About Monitors

by Bob Raikes

Digitimes in Taiwan spoke to Vincent Chiou, associate president of Asustek Computer’s Monitor Business Unit, who told the site that it expects the monitor market to grow by 5% to 10% in 2017. He …

Tags:Asus| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 49

Introducing an iPhone Based Bridge Mixed Reality Headset

by Arthur Berman

The original charter of Occipital Inc. (Boulder, CO and San Francisco, CA) was to develop state-of-the-art mobile computer vision applications. About three years ago, the company released a hardware product, a depth-sensing device called …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 49

Imec Develops Flexible OLEDs

by Matthew Brennesholtz

The Interuniversity MicroElectronics Center, better known as Imec, is a research institution headquartered in Leuven, Belgium that has a lot of interests in OLED and display technologies and with worldwide reach. This reach includes …

Tags:AMOLED| CPT| Holst Centre| IMEC| OLED Fabs| OLEDs| Vol 23 - Issue 49

Will 2017 See VR Content Tipping Point?

by Steve Sechrist

As 2016 winds down, we enter the season of prophecy for next year’s digital future, and Virtual Reality (VR) content is being predicted as perhaps hitting a tipping point with “Mass Expansion of VR …

Tags:Content Creation| Emerging Markets| Market Data| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 49