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VW Adopts HUD for New Passat Models

Head Up Displays (HUD) are moving more and more into the mainstream car market. The latest entrance comes from VW. Of ...

Gartner Says 2016 Marked Fifth Consecutive Year of Worldwide PC Shipment Decline

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 72.6 million units in the fourth quarter of 2016, a 3.7 percent decline from the fourth quarter ...

Any Object Used for Remote Control

The BBC has reported that a researcher from Lancaster University has developed a Matchpoint remote control system that uses a webcam ...

Dolby Vision Rolling Out to Sony TVs from the End of January

Sony has announced that Dolby Vision support will begin rolling out to select models of its 2016 and 2017 Android TVs ...

Submissions Being Accepted for Tom’s Guide CES Awards

The editors of Tom’s Guide and Laptop Mag are inviting submissions for their own 2016 CES awards. Product categories include laptops, ...

CES is Lively

This week we catch up with the general news from the last couple of weeks. We are working on the CES ...

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Samsung Becomes Top Chip Supplier

by Bob Raikes

IHS said that Intel has been overtaken by Samsung as the largest global semiconductor company. While in Q2, Intel’s revenues were $14.6 billion with Samsung at $14.4 billion, in Q3, Intel got to $15.9 …

Tags:Chips| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Semiconductor Market| Vol 24 - Issue 43

France: 40% growth for SVoD market

by Milos Pavlovic

Data from French consultancy, Médiamétrie, reported by universfreebox.com, has said that the number of French internet users subscribing to an SVoD service has risen from 15% a year ago to 21% now. Netflix has …

Tags:France| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SVOD| Vol 24 - Issue 43

Dataxis: 40 Pay TV Operators with Android STBs in Q3 2017

by Andrew Fenn

Dataxis research has found that around 40 worldwide pay TV operators have deployed Android set-top-boxes (STB) in the third quarter of 2017. Android is generally used by operators wishing to create more “over-the-top (OTT) …

Tags:Android| Large Display Monitor| Smart TV| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 43

Internet Delivered Pay-TV Hits Cable, Satellite and Phone Providers

by Yvette Raikes

The bigger pay-TV providers were hit again this quarter with further subscriber losses, with internet delivery the only method seeing gains, according to research from the Leichtman Research Group. Cable, satellite and phone companies …

Tags:Cable| IPTV| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| Satellite| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 43

The Fove Eye Tracking HMD Reaches Production

by Arthur Berman

The Fove headset has at last become a real product. Distinguishing features of the HMD developed by Fove, Inc. (San Mateo, CA) include eye tracking capability and the use of foveated image rendering. Meko …

Tags:Foveated Rendering| Gaze Recognition| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 45

Will AR be Short for “Apple Reality”?

by Norbert Hildebrand

Since the last Tom Cook interview tour promoting the Apple brand, we know that he likes AR as in ‘Augmented Reality’ better than VR (Virtual Reality). It comes as no surprise that he didn’t …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 44

Le Petit Chef Goes Live in London

by Andrew Fenn

Following successful launches in Dubai and Abu Dhabi earlier this year, Le Petit Chef in the footsteps of Marco Polo is now live in London. The “unique gastronomic experience” treats diners to a 3D …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Projection Mapping| Vol 24 - Issue 43

Leyard LED Video Walls Chosen for 2018 Olympic Winter Games

by Andrew Fenn

Michael Sheehan, Coordinating Director of NBC Olympics, has announced that the company has selected Leyard to provide fine pitch LED video walls for its production of the XXIII Olympic Winter Games, which will take …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Leyard| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Sports and Stadiums| Vol 24 - Issue 44