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Oculus CEO Hints at 2015 Rift Release

In an interview with Bloomberg, Oculus VR founder and CEO Brendan Iribe has hinted that the Oculus Rift might (finally) reach ...

Twitter Signs Agreement to Live Stream Esports Tournaments

Twitter has signed an agreement with two esports companies, ESL and DreamHack, to live stream events and original content, with all ...

Tele Columbus Announces advanceTV

Tele Columbus, Germany’s third-largest cable operator, will launch its new advanceTV product on 16 January 2017. It offers its customers a ...

DisplaySearch: Smartphone Growth Moves Out of China

NPD DisplaySearch’s Q3 smartphone results – specifically regarding top Chinese vendors – indicate the outlook for the market as a whole, ...

No UltraHD on Apple TV

The Apple TV is due to be refreshed in June, Buzzfeed said recently (Apple TV Refresh Coming in June). Now managing ...

Hisense ULED Wins Global Annual Display Technology Award

On Jan. 7, USA local time, the winner of the Annual Display Technology Award was unveiled at the world’s largest and finest consumer electronics ...

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TCL Chooses Nanosys

by Tom Allen

TCL continues to grow, said North American VP Chris Larson at the company’s press conference. TCL was the largest TV exporter in China in 2015, for the seventh year in a row, and is …

Tags:CES 2016| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nanosys| phablets| Quantum Dots| Roku| Smartphones| TCL| Vol 23 - Issue 02

TWC Adds Video Subscribers

by Tom Allen

Time Warner Cable reported that it added new 32,000 video customers in 2015 – the first time in nine years that a year has ended with an uptick in video subscribers.

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Time Warner| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 01

The Perception of Motorcycle HUDs May be About to Change

by Chris Chinnock

New motorcycle Head-up Display (HUD) technology has just been introduced at CES that may indeed begin to change the perception of the utility of such devices. Driving this is new waveguide display technology from …

Tags:Augmented Reality| CES 2016| Head Up Displays HUDs| Vol 22 - Issue 01

Peerless-AV names EMEA business development manager

by Isaac Oburu

AV technology pioneer Peerless-AV today announced the appointment of Tom Fenton as Business Development Manager, EMEA. Working alongside the UK and Export Sales Teams, Tom will be responsible for growing new business opportunities across …

Tags:Peerless AV| UK (United Kingdom)

Acer refines videoconferencing experience with new Chromebox

by Isaac Oburu

Acer has announced the new Chromebox for meetings CXV2, a total solution for videoconferencing including hardware, software, and support all in one box. Booting up in about 8 seconds and supporting up to 15 …

Tags:Acer| Display Mounts| display technology| Projectors

Samsung Electronics Introduces Advanced Smart TV User Experience

by Isaac Oburu

Samsung Electronics unveiled a new Samsung Smart TV user experience with the refreshed ‘Smart Hub’ user interface and new Samsung Smart Control remote. These Smart TV enhancements provide consumers with easy access to all …

Tags:Samsung| Smart TV

Lenovo Unveils Pioneering Modular ThinkPad X1 Tablet

by Isaac Oburu

Lenovo today unveiled its newly expanded and highly innovative X1 portfolio. Designed for forward thinkers, the series includes new additions such as the brilliantly adaptable ThinkPad X1 Tablet with its unique modular design; the …

Tags:Lenovo| tablets

SMI’s High-Speed Eye Tracking Enables ‘Realistic VR’

by Tom Allen

SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) says it has showed a system to lower the requirements of virtual reality processing. Using the ‘foveated rendering’ technique, VR performance can be between two and four times higher than is …

Tags:CES 2016| Gaze Recognition| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Power Consumption| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 02

Acer is Massively Mobile

by Tom Allen

Acer is never an official part of CES. Instead, the company just ‘happens’ to have a suite in a hotel somewhere in Las Vegas in early January! Isn’t it weird how these coincidences just …

Tags:3D Depth Cameras| Acer| All-in-ones (AIOs)| CES 2016| Convertible PCs| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 23 - Issue 02

Ultrahaptics is Coming This Year

by Tom Allen

We have covered Bristol-based Ultrahaptics before, in 2013 (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 23). The company has just completed a Series A funding round, which raised £10.1 million ($14.6 million), and says that its …

Tags:Haptics| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Touch Interfaces| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 01

Video Devices Supports DCI-4k on Field Monitor

by Tom Allen

A high-resolution 7″ field monitor has been released by Video Devices, as the largest model in the company’s PIX-E series. Although its own display resolution is 1920 x 1200, the PIX-E7 can be used …

Tags:Field Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 23 - Issue 01

Pico Sales Expected to Rise 50% in 2015

by Tom Allen

Pico projector unit sales are expected to have climbed 50% YoY in 2015, according to a forecast by PMA Research. During Q1-Q3’15, global pico and personal projector sales rose 49% YoY. Revenues were also …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pico Projectors| PMA Research| Vol 23 - Issue 01