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My Etendue Story

Etendue is a familiar word among optical engineers especially projection engine designers. It represents how “spread out” the light from a ...

Opera Adds 360° VR Video Playback Support

Opera has integrated support for up to 360° video playback for OpenVR-compatible headsets such as the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive ...

Publitec Invests in Christie Products

German AV distributor Publitec has invested in Christie’s new Boxer 4K30 projectors, taking 40 units from the company before it was ...

OLED-Info Updates OLED Reports

OLED-Info has published a new version of its market reports on microdisplays and flexible OLEDs. Find them (paid) at http://tinyurl.com/k8hsu25 (microdisplays) ...

Google Patents MicroLED Glasses Concept

Google applied for a patent relating to the use of MicroLEDs in AR glasses in March 2016, and that has now ...

Sony’s DVD and Blu-ray Business Sees Q3 Fall

Sony has issued its third quarter results (for last quarter of 2016) for the Home Entertainment and Sound division The division, ...

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Scanning the Horizon at SXSWedu

by Len Scrogan

My purpose in today’s article is to conduct a speedy reconnoiter of some happenings in the area of technology in the predictive education bazaar that we know as SXSWedu. The SXSWedu® Conference & Festival …

Tags:display technology| Education| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 13

Atomos Brings HDR to Field Monitors

by Tom Allen

Atomos has shown off two new 7.1″ field monitors prior to NAB, which display 10 stops of luminance detail, with 10-bit HDR post production colour accuracy (8-bit + FRC); said to be the first …

Tags:Cameras| Field Monitors| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NAB 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 12

Toshiba Pushes Two Signals At Once

by Tom Allen

Toshiba’s semiconductor division has developed a dual-picture video processor, for high-resolution automotive displays. Mass production of the TC90195XBG chip is scheduled to begin in June. The processor supports a single 1920 x 720 display. …

Tags:Automotive| Chips| Mobile Display Monitor| toshiba| Vol 23 - Issue 12

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 12

by Tom Allen

AOC has brought its C2783FQ monitor, launched in Australia last year (Australia is First With AOC Monitor), to the USA. It costs $350. The RP750, a large-format IR multitouch display from BenQ, was first …

Tags:BenQ| China| Desktop Monitors| Europe| Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| LFD - Large Format Display| Microsoft| MMD (AOC Philips)| Pricing| Roku| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| TCL| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 12

Panasonic to Bring Taste of Moscow to Prolight + Sound

by Isaac Oburu

Panasonic will recreate the world’s largest-ever projected image at the forthcoming Prolight + Sound 2016 exhibition from 5-8 April in Frankfurt, Germany. The highlight of the Panasonic stand will be a reproduction of the …

Tags:Events| Germany| Panasonic| Projection

Global Payments Announces Full Support for Android Pay in the UK

by Isaac Oburu

Global Payments Inc., a leading worldwide provider of payment technology services, is pleased to offer merchants in the UK the ability to accept Android Pay™, which will offer a range of choices for Android …

Tags:Android| Mobile Apps| Payment Systems| UK (United Kingdom)

Slowing Down Light with a Twist

by Isaac Oburu

Researchers at the University of Ottawa observed that twisted light in a vacuum travels slower than the universal physical constant established as the speed of light by Einstein’s theory of relativity. Twisted light, which …

Tags:Lighting| OLETs (Organic Light Emitting Transistors)| Optical Bonding

Asbis Brings Alcatel to Eastern Europe

by Isaac Oburu

Asbis is distributing Alcatel’s smartphone, tablets and smartwatches in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Tags:Asbis (Prestigio)| Distribution| Europe| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 12

Rift – Finally – Reaches Customers

by Tom Allen

It’s been a long wait – four years since the Kickstarter campaign began! – but the Oculus Rift headset is finally being shipped. Those customers who were able to pre-order the consumer model of …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus Rift| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 12

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Acer Splits to Focus on Recovery

by Tom Allen

Following the split of HP into two separate units, Acer has announced that it is taking the same path, in order to turn around its poor finances (revenue was down 20% YoY last year). …

Tags:Acer| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Vol 23 - Issue 12