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CE Week and Pepcom in New York Show Latest Systems

by Matthew Brennesholtz

CE Week was a two day event (June 20 – 21) at the Javits Center in New York, hosted by ShowStoppers in association with IFA and multiple other organizations. The CTA is not one …

NEC Display Updates Popular Professional Desktop Display for Color-Critical Uses

by Damir Lokas

NEC Display Solutions of America, Inc., a leading provider of commercial LCD displays and projectors, announced the launch of the MultiSync PA271Q, a new professional 27-inch wide color gamut monitor. “The MultiSync PA271Q replaces …

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IDC: The Fight for Smart Assistant Dominance Heats Up

by Andrew Fenn

The worldwide smart home devices market — inclusive of smart speakers, digital media adaptors, lighting, thermostats and more — is forecast to ship 549.5 million devices in 2018, growing 26.8% over the prior year, …

IDC: Worldwide IT and Telecom Spending to Slow After Last Year’s Rebound

by Andrew Fenn

Worldwide spending on traditional hardware, software, services and telecommunications is on course for growth of 3.7% this year in constant currency, slightly down from last year’s 4.2% growth, and will reach $4 trillion in …

Over 85% of U.S. Millennials Subscribe to at Least one OTT Video Service

by Damir Lokas

New video research from Parks Associates finds more than 85% of millennials in U.S. broadband households subscribe to at least one OTT video service. This research comes from Parks Associates’ OTT Video Market Tracker, …

Will VR Go the Way of 3DTV?

by Steve Sechrist

When will consumers come around to face-worn display technology? According to past forecasts, that should have already happened, yet it seems that just because a display technology can be “perfected” a great display alone …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Market Data| Oculus VR| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 25

Lumus Looking to Build Business for Waveguides

by Bob Raikes

Lumus, based in Israel, is a developer of high quality waveguides for AR that it has been making for seven or eight years, through a partnership with Thales of France (and we have been …

Tags:Augmented Reality| AWE 2018| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 25| Waveguide Display

Varjo Mixed Reality Demo is Impressive

by Bob Raikes

Varjo was in a hotel suite near the show and was showing the latest version of the headset that we first saw at MWC (We Get a Chance to Look at Varjo’s Headset) and …

Tags:Augmented Reality| AWE 2018| Mixed Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 25

ThirdEye Open to Customisation

by Bob Raikes

ThirdEye is a maker of smartglasses that is based in Princeton, New Jersey. The X1 glasses are built around a complete system based on a Snapdragon 820 with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of …

UniVet Developing AR Safety Glasses

by Bob Raikes

UniVet Optical Technologies is a maker of safety glasses from Brescia in Italy and has integrated VR technoology into the glasses which it has been developing for 20 years. The company is a Sony …

Iristick is Finalising its Hardware Specification

by Bob Raikes

Iristick is from Antwerp in Belgium and has developed its own smartglasses which are based on a display-only architecture mounted on certified safety glasses. The company has two versions, one with a 5 megapixel …

Tags:Augmented Reality| AWE 2018| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 25

Spex Concentrates on Improving Vision

by Bob Raikes

Spex, which is a division of eSight, has a very specific objective in developing VR systems and that is to help those that are suffering from visual problems and, in particular, macular degeneration. In …