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Apple Working on AR/VR V2 – Kuo

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Patently Apple quoted Ming-Chi Kuo, who has something of a reputation as an analyst on all things Apple (significant enough to have his own category on the website!), has said that …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Virtual Reality

Links Week Ending 10th December 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. Vodafone TV launches on LG smart TVs …

LG Reveals New ‘Art’ OLED TV with Moving Cover and Speakers

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG has announced a new TV in Korea in its “LG OLED Evo TV Object Collection” that has a cover that hides the TV under motor control. The 65″ set costs …

Tags:Korea| LG Electronics (LGE)| TVs (TV Sets)

Samsung Hits the Top for Chips Again

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Omdia put out a press release that highlighted the results of Q3 in the semiconductor market and ranked Samsung as the top supplier with revenue of $20.96 billion, up 13% on …

Tags:Financial Data| Intel| Samsung| Semiconductor Market

Arena sets Hungarian and central European LED records

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A new arena in Budapest will include a 216 m² LED-based centre scoreboard (the Cube). It will also have an LED video wall that will cover 800 m², believed to be …

Tags:LED| Sports and Stadiums

Roku & Google Make Up

by Bob Raikes

What They Say NextTV reports that Roku and Google have finally resolved their dispute over the carriage of YouTube and YouTube TV in a multi-year agreement. The dispute had gone on since April and …

Tags:Google| Roku| Smart TV| Streaming Video| YouTube

Panasonic Adds Apple TV to 2017-21 Sets

by Bob Raikes

What They Say FlatPanelsHD reported that Panasonic has added support for Apple TV+ on 2017-2021 OLED and LCD TVs that have the ‘My Home Screen’ platform in Europe. What We Think It’s unusual to …

Tags:Apple| Panasonic| Streaming Video| SVOD

Solas OLED files patent infringement lawsuit over Nintendo Switch OLED

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Solas OLED put out a press release saying that it has filed a legal claim in the US over four claimed patent infringements in the OLEDs used in the Nintendo Switch. …

Tags:Litigation| OLEDs| Patents| Samsung

Sony Showcases VR Headset Prototype With 4K OLED Microdisplay

by Bob Raikes

What They Say As part of its Technology Day. Sony’s R&D Division showed the video below which highlights an AR/VR headset that has been developed using dual UltraHD OLED microdisplays (4000ppi). The headset is …

Tags:R&D (Research & Development)| sony| Virtual Reality

MicroLED microdisplay developer RaySolve raises $10 million

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A Hong Kong-based microLED microdisplay developer, Raysolve Technology said that it has raised $10 million in pre-Series A funding to scale up its R&D to early production. In the last six …

Tags:China| Investment| Microdisplays| MicroLED

Canon’s New Monitor has HDR Support, WCG and Wide Viewing Angles

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We caught up today with a press release from Canon that announced a new monitor for broadcast monitoring. The 18.4″ UltraHD unit has 1,000 cd/m² or output, with 1,000,000:1 contrast and …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| Canon

Will Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 democratize 8K Smartphones?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Ben Schwarz wrote an article for the 8K Association and looked at the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and whether the 4nm technology would enable 8K on smartphones. He said that the …

Tags:Qualcomm| Semiconductors| Super Hi-Vision (8K)