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LG Libero: WQHD display for hanging or standing

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG in Japan has released an unusually designed monitor that is designed for desk standing or hanging from an office screen partition. The unit is a QuadHD IPS monitor and there …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Japan| LG Electronics (LGE)

AR in eCommerce May Reduce Returns

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A survey of 4,000+ shoppers in the U.S. the U.K., Saudi Arabia, and France suggested that the use of AR technology can reduce the number of returns in ecommerce. The survey …

Tags:Augmented Reality| eCommerce| Retail

Myopia Epidemic Not Caused by Displays

by Bob Raikes

What They Say An article in the Economist’s Simply Science series looked in detail at the rising problem of myopia in parts of East Asia and found that in some parts of the region, …

Tags:Ergonomics| Human Visual System (HVS)| Medical

We Found the Source for the Meta Info

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apologies – yesterday I reported on Meta’s developments in XR displays but I missed the source of that content which is a one hour video from ‘Adam Savage’s Tested’ that includes …

Tags:Augmented Reality| | Mixed Reality| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Will Streaming Take Over?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Kagan said after a survey of US adult internet uses that it estimates that US households used 6.8 streaming video services on average in March 2022. The result showed that paid …

Tags:Advertising| Roku| Smart TV| Streaming Video| USA

Xerox Parc Developing SMPs for MicroLED Transfer

by Bob Raikes

What They Say MicroLED-Info posted a video showing a system for the mass transfer of microLED devices based on thermally induced adhesion modulation of shape memory polymers (SMP). Heated micro patches on the transfer …

Tags:MicroLED| Production Technology| R&D (Research & Development)

JBD Tops out Hefei Fab

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We missed it a couple of weeks ago, but have now seen a press release from Jade Bird Display (JBD) about the topping out of a fab facility in Hefei, China …

Tags:China| Investment| MicroLED

SDC Swapping OCA for OCR

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say The Elec reported that Samsung Display (SDC) is switching to using optically clear resin (OCR), which is a liquid, instead of optically clear adhesive (OCA), which it uses in a film …

Tags:Foldable Devices| InkJet Deposition| Optical Bonding| Rollable Displays| Samsung Display

DSCC Updates its Tablet Forecast – Good News for OLED

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC published its latest results and forecasts for tablets using OLED, miniLED and regular LCD tablets. The firm differentiates OLED and miniLED as ‘advanced tablets’. Advanced tablets were up 362% from …

Tags:Apple| MiniLED| OLEDs| Samsung| tablets

Meta shows its AR/VR work

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Meta has been talking about what its Reality Labs division is working on. The projects are: “Butterscotch” is a ‘near retina’ display with 1832 x 1920 pixels per eye, but just …

Tags:Augmented Reality| | HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mixed Reality| R&D (Research & Development)| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Tencent Holdings has Formed an XR Unit

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Reuters reports that Tencent Holdings (China’s most valuable tech company) has formed a business unit to address the opportunity for XR and the metaverse in software and hardware. It was formed …

Tags:Augmented Reality| China| Mixed Reality| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality