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Linden Lab Introduces Sansar VR Creation Platform

Linden Lab, the San Francisco based VR development company that introduced us to Second Life and Blocksworld has opened the Sansar ...

Events, Dear Boy, Events…

Famously, Harold Macmillan, a British Prime Minister of the 1950s, said once that governments were often re-directed by “Events, dear boy, ...

NHK Shows 8K VR Ride

NHK Enterprises (NEP) and NHK Media Technology showed an 8K VR ride at the recent SXSW event in Austin. The ride, ...

Xbox One X Unveiled

Microsoft’s “project Scorpio” has now been announced as the Xbox One X. It will have the Scorpio gaming processor with 6Tflops ...

The Latin American Perspective on the Display World

SID Latin Display Conference – I’m currently in Brazil for the annual Latin Display conference – an SID event that is ...

Avnet’s Q2 Sales Drop 4.6%

Avnet Technology Solutions, the enterprise technology business of Avnet Inc., reported a 4.6% year on year drop in turnover in Q2 ...

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Leak Shows ‘PS4.5’ Specs

by Tom Allen

Sources speaking to Giantbomb, and Sony documents seen by the website, have revealed more (apparent) details about the PlayStation 4.5, or ‘PlayStation 4k’ (Rumour Claims ‘PS4.5’ Will Run Games at UHD). Internally known as …

Tags:Consoles| Large Display Monitor| PlayStation| sony| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 15

Schott Glass Takes Innovation Award

by Tom Allen

Dr. Frank Heinricht, chairman of the board of Schott AG (right), with Klaus von Klitzing, Nobel Laureate in Physics (middle) and Jan Hofer, German journalist (left)Schott’s ultra-thin glass has won the 2016 German Industry …

Tags:Awards| Back Panel| Germany| Glass| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 15

Sky Takes V-Nova in Italy

by Tom Allen

Sky will use V-Nova’s Perseus codec on its IPTV platform in Italy, resulting in a halving of the average bitrate from 8Mbps to 4Mbps. One of the most important points about the news is …

Tags:Encoders| Italy| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Sky| V-Nova| Vol 23 - Issue 15

Cambrios Gets a Second Chance

by Tom Allen

John LeMoncheck will resume his position as president and CEO of CambriosCambrios has restarted its silver nanowire business, following the liquidation of the company’s assets in February. Steve Victor, a senior MD at Development …

Tags:Cambrios| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Silver Nanowire| Vol 23 - Issue 15

Display Summit to Feature Leaders from Hot Laser Projection Industry

by Isaac Oburu

The 9th – 10th May in Yixing, China, is where world leaders in solid state projection technology will gather for a symposium on this red hot market segment. Some in the industry are predicting …

Tags:Barco| China| Display Summit 2016| Dolby| Optoma| RealD| sony

Ateme Works With Technicolor on HDR

by Tom Allen

Ateme is integrating Technicolor’s HDR distribution technology into its Titan product. Titan is a multi-codec and -format video transcoding software. The use of Technicolor’s technology will extend HDR functionality available to content owners, distributors …

Tags:ATEME| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NAB 2016| Software| Technicolor| Transcoders| Vol 23 - Issue 15

VR Revenues to Rise 440%

by Tom Allen

JP Morgan has forecast that the global VR market will be worth as much as $13.5 billion by 2020, compared to just over $2.5 billion this year. Gaming and entertainment applications will see the …

Tags:Forecasts| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 15| Worldwide

Huawei Competes With Tier Ones – in VR

by Tom Allen

Huawei has shown off a VR headset that is used as a ‘bring-your-own-display’ device, like the Gear VR. The Huawei VR will be used with the flagship P9, P9 Plus and Mate 8 phones, …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 15

‘E-Skin’ AMOLED is Thinner Than Cling Film

by Tom Allen

An OLED display prototype, developed at the University of Tokyo, is more flexible than any type seen before – and less than quarter of the thickness of cling film (Saran wrap, to our American …

Tags:AMOLED| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 15| Wearables

Most Netflix Customers Still American

by Tom Allen

In the announcement of its Q1’16 finance results, Netflix has revealed that its global customer base more than 6.7 million YoY. The firm now has almost 47 million customers in the USA and 34.5 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Netflix| OTT Video| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 15