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Which Way for displays, OLED or MicroLED?

We caught up with quite a lot of the ‘hard news’ this week, although there seemed to be plenty going on! ...

Parks Associates: Apple and Samsung Smartphones Widen Lead Over LG and Motorola

Parks Associates announced new research today in smartphone ownership showing that Apple and Samsung have widened their brand share lead over ...

LG Lowers OLED Target – Apparently

Sources in Asia have said that LG has reduced its OLED TV sales target. The company set a target of 5 ...

Skyworth Releases One New HDR TV at IFA

Skyworth told us that they had one new HDR TV at IFA, the S9B which is part of the previously released ...

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 26

AMD has launched its RX 480 graphics card, designed to make VR more affordable (AMD Dramatically Lowers VR Cost). Prices start ...

‘Flip’ Through Pages With Active Haptic Feedback

Researcher’s from Queen’s University (Canada) have developed a prototype flexible OLED display using ‘active haptic feedback’ – that is, flexing – ...

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PTC Unlocks Vuforia for Microsoft

by Tom Allen

PTC has said that its Vuforia augmented reality platform – the standard AR tool for app developers – will support Microsoft’s Hololens. The capability was demonstrated at Build 2016 last week. Vuforia adds the …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Software| Vol 23 - Issue 13

$5 Billion Expansion Planned for New York Airports

by Tom Allen

A rendering of the new LaGuardia airport. Image: PTE.The board of commissioners for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) has approved funding for improvements to LaGuardia and Newark Liberty International …

Tags:Aviation| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 13

French IPTV Consumption Rising

by Tom Allen

A study by Médiamétrie has shown that around 3 million viewers in France aged 15+ now watch live or catch-up IPTV on a PC, tablet or smartphone every day. This is 200,000 more than …

Tags:France| IPTV| Large Display Monitor| TV Viewing| Vol 23 - Issue 13

Full Projector Support with BenQ’s Integrator’s Choice

by Tom Allen

Two new professional AV installation projectors, the SU931 and SX930, are now part of BenQ’s recent S-Series. They are part of the company’s Integrator’s Choice programme, which provides the products as well as education, …

Tags:BenQ| DLP Projectors| Installation Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Pro AV| Vol 23 - Issue 13

Analyst: Sharp OLEDs by 2020

by Tom Allen

Yasuo Nakane, an analyst at Japan’s Mizuho Securities, has said that 2020 would be “a realistic timeline” for the newly-merged Foxconn-Sharp to begin producing OLED displays. Sharp has previously researched OLEDs but has concentrated …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| IGZO| LTPS TFT| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| sharp| Supply Chain| Vol 23 - Issue 13

LCD Price Fixing Claims Ongoing

by Tom Allen

Reports of LCD price fixing between 1996 and 2006 were first covered by us in late 2006 (Display Monitor Vol 13 No 50), and while most legislation has been finalised, some is still ongoing. …

Tags:AUO| Large Display Monitor| Legislation| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| toshiba| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 13

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 13

by Tom Allen

Dell and HP have become the latest companies to build machines that are specifically certified as VR-ready, for the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. The Dell Precision workstations will have a set of minimum …

Tags:Dell| HP Inc| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Nvidia| Panasonic| Rugged Displays| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 13| Workstations

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Fujitsu Prepares for Fujitsu Forum

by Tom Allen

Fujitsu’s annual Fujitsu Forum will be held on the 19th and 20th May this year, at the Tokyo International Forum in Japan. The theme this year will be ‘Human Centric Innovation: Driving Digital Transformation’. …

Tags:Back Panel| Events| Fujitsu| Japan| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 13

Samsung’s Foldable Phone Coming in 2017

by Tom Allen

ET News claims that Samsung will release a foldable smartphone next year. The device will act as a 5″ phone when closed, and a 7″ tablet when unfolded.

Tags:Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 13

E Ink Enters Retail Partnership

by Tom Allen

Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) and E Ink have announced a strategic partnership to co-develop and market products using ePaper. DNP will use its Japanese sales network, developing products aimed at sectors of the retail, …

Tags:Digital Signage| E Ink| Japan| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NFC| Vol 23 - Issue 13

Pantomime Enables Shared VR

by Tom Allen

Before CES, we wrote about a company called Pantomime (AR and VR Due at CES 2016), which claims to add interactivity to VR without using an extra hardware. Thanks to Mark Fihn’s 3rd Dimension …

Tags:Interactive Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 13

VR Motion Sickness Countered Again – with Electrodes

by Norbert Hildebrand

One of the issues that is plaguing augmented and virtual reality solutions is the sensitivity of some people to motion sickness and related issues. Some people are more prone to experience this effect than …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 13