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The Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headset

Mixed Reality capability has been included as part of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. Mixed Reality is Microsoft’s name for ...

Is there Such Thing as Too Immersive?

Following the development of virtual reality and to a certain degree also augmented reality technology, we keep hearing about how immersive ...

Zeiss Updates Dual-Modulated DLP Projector

At last year’s I/ITSEC we were very impressed with the super black levels achieved in the Zeiss DLP projector that features ...

New Technologies Amplify Judder

Day 2 was tight on time for all of the speakers – Welsh announced at the start of the day that, ...

Mobile TV group upgrades 4K truck with HDR using EVS XT4K server

Live production facilities provider Mobile TV Group, has integrated new EVS live production technology – including servers, effects telestration and connected ...

ABC Data adds Xiaomi to Portfolio

Xiaomi has contracted ABC Data to be its official distributor for its tablets and smartphones in Poland, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia ...

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Nvidia Extends Full 10-Series to Notebooks

by Tom Allen

Nvidia has revealed at Gamescom that its new 10-series GPUs (GTX1080, 1070 and 1060) will be installed on gaming notebooks from major manufacturers. Normally, Nvidia produces less-powerful mobile versions of its cards (i.e. GTX …

Tags:Graphics Cards| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Nvidia| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 32

Lenovo Installs FreeSync on First Monitor

by Tom Allen

The Y27f is Lenovo’s first free-standing display featuring AMD’s FreeSync technology. It is a curved 27″ monitor with a 144Hz refresh rate, for gamers. Lenovo claims that the 1,800R curve is one of the …

Tags:AMD| Curved Displays| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Lenovo| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)| Vol 23 - Issue 32

Innolux Focuses on Mid-Size at Touch Taiwan

by Tom Allen

Innolux has revealed what it will be showing at Touch Taiwan (24th – 26th August) this year: an event where, traditionally, panel makers in Taiwan demonstrate their newest developments. Notebooks are an essential facet …

Tags:Innolux| Large Display Monitor| LCD Panels| Mobile Display Monitor| Touch Taiwan 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 32

TI’s Minidock Design Carries USB and Power

by Tom Allen

Texas Instruments has introduced a USB-C and Power Delivery minidock (51 x 102mm) reference design, which can support USB data, power, video and audio signals. The reference design can take power from a USB-C …

Tags:Chips| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TI (Texas Instruments)| USB| Vol 23 - Issue 32

HP Prepares New Gaming Models

by Tom Allen

During Gamescom in Germany, HP revealed several new products, two of which feature gaming displays. One is a 17.3″ notebook with a choice of two of Nvidia’s new 10-series mobile GPUs, and the other …

Tags:Curved Displays| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| HP Inc| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)| Vol 23 - Issue 32

Stratacache Acquires Scala for Global Expansion

by Tom Allen

US digital signage hardware, software and services provider Stratacache has acquired Scala, the digital signage platform developer. The deal combines the USA’s (Stratacache) and world’s (Scala) largest signage companies. Stratacache says that its strong …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Scala (now Stratacache)| Vol 23 - Issue 32

Toshiba Result 12/08/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

Toshiba reported Q1 2016 net profit of $774 million. Turnover was $11.7 billion. The company reported its first quarterly net profit in six consecutive periods, although turnover was still in decline on account of …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| toshiba| Vol 23 - Issue 32

AR/VR Will Grow at More Than a 180% CAGR

by Tom Allen

IDC projects worldwide revenues from augmented (AR) and virtual (VR) reality growing from $5.2 billion this year to more than $162 billion in 2020. This represents a CAGR of 181.3% over the five-year period. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 32| Worldwide

Top U.S. pay TV Operators Lose 665,000 Subscribers

by Isaac Oburu

A report by Leichtman Research Group, Inc. (LRG) has found that pay-TV providers with the largest market share in the U.S. in terms of subscribers, lost about 665,000 net video subscribers in Q2″16. Q2 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 33

A Day with Charles Poynton

by Chris Chinnock

I recently had the opportunity to attend a workshop with Charles Poynton, a renowned mathematician and video expert. The informal workshop took place in New York with just a few others, providing a great …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Vol 23 - Issue 32| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

WowTech VR Box 3 – A low cost alternative to Samsung Gear VR

by Norbert Hildebrand

The just announced WowTech VR Box 3 is a smartphone-based virtual reality headset comparable to the Samsung Gear VR. It allows the use of most 4” to 6” smartphones including the Apple iPhone 6 …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 33