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Christie’s Q-Series Controls Sharpness and Shading

Christie has added new projectors to its 1DLP range, with high brightness and dual- or single-lamp operation modes. The three models ...

Panasonic to Start Making Rear View Auto Displays

Panasonic said that it is to start making electronic rear view mirrors, the first product jointly developed with Ficosa which Panasonic ...

Sigma SoC Supports HEVC Main-10 UltraHD

Sigma Designs had a meeting room and welcomed us with news of its SMP8758 SoC which supports UltraHD and HEVC. The ...

Digitimes Research Predicts 2-5% CAGR for LED Production Value

Digitimes Research has published new figures, estimating that global production value for high-brightness LED chips will grow 2-5% year-on-year between 2018 ...

Epson Expands 3LCD With Laser Option

Epson emphasised its support network with Coverplus 365: the next generation of its service programme. Installation customers signing up to Coverplus ...

HTC VIVE Announces New Vive Tracker Bundles And Consumer Availability

HTC VIVE, the leader in room-scale VR, today launched a slate of Vive Tracker bundles and announced the consumer availability of ...

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Digital Signage Summit is Very Software-Centric

by Bob Raikes

After missing last year’s Digital Signage Summit (it clashed with the first day of IBC!), which was the first that Invidis had run in collaboration with Infocomm, we were pleased to be able to …

Tags:Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| Munich Digital Signage Summit 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 26

Meet the Infinitus Prime tVR HMD

by Arthur Berman

Infinitus Global has just debuted a new virtual reality headset called the Infinitus Prime tVR. It is not a consumer product. Rather, the primary customers targeted by the company for this HMD are enterprise …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 27

Digital Signage Summit Round-up

by Bob Raikes

The Summit included an exhibition area that is in the atrium of the Hilton hotel. This is an attractive area, but has very high levels of ambient light, so almost anything except a dedicated …

Tags:Digital Signage| High Brightness Displays| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Vol 23 - Issue 26

05 Merck is Looking to “Free Form” LCDs

by Bob Raikes

Luc Yao is from Merck and he talked about ‘Free form LCDs as strategic interface in cities’. He had three purposes in his talk to explain the role of Merck to identify opportunities for …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD Panels| Merck| Munich Digital Signage Summit 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 26

04 Lots of Opportunities – Including AR & VR!

by Bob Raikes

The afternoon session was mostly examples of digital signage projects, so we’ve combined several talks into a single article. Markus Deserno is one of the Managing Directors of Seen Media which is a full …

Tags:Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| Munich Digital Signage Summit 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 26

03 Panel Looks at Signage in Retail

by Bob Raikes

There was then a panel session moderated by Florian Rotberg of Invidis. The panel consisted of Mike MacMillan of Vizualize, Damian Rodgett of Pilot Screentime in Germany, Sascha Martini of razorfish and Stewart Caddick …

Tags:Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| Munich Digital Signage Summit 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 26

Vendors Shutting Down a-Si TFT LCD Fabs

by Ross Young

Samsung Display, one of the leading amorphous silicon (a-Si) TFT LCD manufacturers for the past 20 years, is shutting down its first G7 line, Line 7-1, from as early as the end of July …

Tags:Large LCD Supply| LCD Fabs| OLED Fabs| Panasonic| Samsung Display| Vol 23 - Issue 26

Vizualize Can Track Individuals Without Privacy Problems.

by Bob Raikes

Michael MacMillan is from Vizualize which is a company that is looking at analytics. Founded in 2003, the company now operates in 40 countries – and has large customers including Marks & Spencer and …

Tags:Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| Munich Digital Signage Summit 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 26

Augmented Reality is About to go Mainstream

by Tom Allen

If you’ve watched sports on TV, you’ll have seen examples of augmented reality – the practice of placing virtual elements into the real world – when commentators highlight plays with graphics on the field. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Game Playing| Nintendo| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 28

Still Challenges in Digital Signage, Says Invidis

by Bob Raikes

We attended one day of the Digital Signage Summit, this year. That day was the second day which was less concerned with the advertising side of the business, but was the Friday that the …

Tags:Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| Munich Digital Signage Summit 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 26