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OmniVision’s New 13-Megapixel PureCel®Plus Sensor Brings High-End Imaging Capabilities to Mainstream Smartphones

OmniVision Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of advanced digital imaging solutions, today announced the OV13855, its third-generation 13-megapixel 1.12-micron pixel sensor. ...

GDS Brings Massive Digital Floor to Kazakhstan

Not content with a regular videowall, the Museum of the Republic in Kazakhstan has chosen to have a video floor installed. ...

Adjusting Image Appearance based on Ambient Conditions

Content is mastered in a dim environment and reproduced on a display whose performance is measured in a dark environment. But ...

8K To Get Real in 2019, Says IHS

We saw some data from IHS Markit quoted in a story from Asia about 8K development, so we checked on the ...

93% Are Impressed With Ultra HD TVs says Strategy Analytics

4K – Consumer awareness of Ultra HD or 4K TV is growing steadily, and 93 percent of those who have seen the ...

Epson Offers Unprecedented Value with New Lamp Pricing for Short-Throw and Ultra Short-Throw Projectors

Epson, the number-one projector manufacturer in the world, today announced $49 replacement lamps for its current line of PowerLite® short-throw and ...

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Sky Agrees Sale to 21st Century Fox

by Bob Raikes

Sky plc in the UK has agreed to an offer from 21st Century Fox, Inc to acquire the company for a value of £18 billion ($22.9 billion). The company had previously tried to buy …

Tags:Broadcast| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Sky| Vol 23 - Issue 49

Could Simulation Help VR?

by Bob Raikes

Our offer to readers is always “a minimum of 48 issues per year” to allow for several weeks when we take summer vacations and to allow for the overload of trying to properly cover …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 23 - Issue 48

Entatech Returns to Profit

by Bob Raikes

UK distributor, owned by display industry veteran, Dave Stevinson, has reported an operating profit of £339K ($430K) for the year ending 29th February, compared to a loss of £1.5 million ($1.9m) in the previous …

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

HTC Reports on VR Education Test

by Bob Raikes

A research report called “The Impact of VR on Academic Performance”, published in November 2016, was jointly carried out by Beijing Bluefocus E-Commerce Co., Ltd. and Beijing iBokan Wisdom Mobile Internet Technology Training at …

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

DisplayLink And Targus Create Dual 4K Dock

by Bob Raikes

DisplayLink and Targus have announced the first dual 4K USB docking station that can support 4096 x 2160 at 60Hz refresh with 24 bit colour over a single USB cable. The dock connects to …

Tags:DisplayLink| Large Display Monitor| USB| Vol 23 - Issue 49

Microsoft Clarifies Holographic Platform at Winhec

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft has released more about the VR headsets from Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo et al at the WinHec event in Shenzen and it looks as they will sell from $300. The company has confirmed …

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

Leap Motion Boosts FoV of Gesture Detection

by Bob Raikes

Leap Motion, which develops gesture and hand-tracking technology for A/R and V/R has released its Leap Motion Mobile Platform, a software and hardware combination that is said to be capable of a 10 fold …

Tags:AR/VR| Gesture Recognition| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 49

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Microsoft Holographic Dev Kits at GDC

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft has said that it is finalising the development kits for the Windows Holographic platform (and will be released at the Games Developers’ Conference in March.

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

AMD Supports Oculus and Updates Freesync

by Bob Raikes

AMD has added support for the Asynchronous Space Warp technology from Oculus, which is a development of ATW (Asynchronous Time Warp) which allows judder reducing frame warping for both translational (side to side) and …

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

Entry-level Smartphone Chip Sales Weak

by Bob Raikes

Reports from Asia say that orders for chips to be used in entry level phones have been dropping, while there is continued growth in demand for mid-range and higher end phones. This is the …

Tags:MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 49