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New Study Projects VR Revenue to Reach $22.4 Billion by 2025

by Bob Raikes

What They Say ARTillery Intelligence released its forecast for VR and expects that VR revenue to grow from $4.49 billion in 2020 to $22.4 billion in 2025, a 37.9% CAGR. Consumer spending is $5.67 …

Tags:| Forecasts| Virtual Reality

Nreal ready-to-wear AR glasses prepare for US debut

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nreal is starting to sell its Nreal Light AR glasses in 20 Verizon stores in the US from the end of November (online from 2nd December) after starting sales in Korea …

Tags:Augmented Reality| USA

ExpressPlay announces integration with Hisense Smart TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Vidaa and Intertrust ExpressPlay announced that Hisense SmartTVs based on Vidaa can be preloaded with Intertrust’s ExpressPlay XCATM content security for broadcast TV protection. This allows SmartTVs to protect content without …

Tags:Broadcast| DRM & Content Protection| Piracy| Security| Smart TV

Omdia: “8K TV ownership slow, but OTT will boom”

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Advanced Television reported comments by María Rua Aguete, Senior Research Director/Media & Entertainment at Omdia from the4 K/HDR Summit in Malaga that 8K television ownership will be extremely modest. “8K will …

Tags:Forecasts| Market Data| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| TVs (TV Sets)

Vlogger Publishes 4K video of Varjo Aero

by Bob Raikes

What They Say YouTuber Sebastien Ang has got hold of a Varjo Aero headset and has uploaded a ‘through the lens’ 4K video to demonstrate the quality of the display produced. The video follows …

Tags:UltraHD & 4K| Virtual Reality

Sky Glass Gets a Review

by Bob Raikes

What They Say What HiFi in the UK has reviewed the Sky Glass streaming TV from Sky. The review starts out by pointing out that because of the extra costs for the service cost, …

Tags:Sky| Streaming Video| TVs (TV Sets)| UK (United Kingdom)

HDTVTest Shootout Looks for Best TV in 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Vincent Teoh of HDTVTest had a shootout among five TVs to decide on ‘the best TV in 2021’. He was one judge and two other professional calibrators joined him in the …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Panasonic| Samsung| sony| TVs (TV Sets)

ActiveLook announced its new “NexT” technology platform.

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The French component maker, Microoled, has announced new sports eyewear technology through its ‘NexT’ technology for AR. The technology is based on a 304 x 256 monochrome microOLED that consumes less …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Microdisplays| OLEDs| Sports and Stadiums

Apple Open to User Repairs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We have been following the Apple repair topic and now the firm has said that it will have a ‘Self Service Repair’ programme that will allow some repairs to devices at …

Tags:Apple| Right to Repair

TCL Rolls Out Technology Demos in Shenzen

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say TCL has shown at its DTC event that it hosted in Shenzen an 8K Inkjet printed OLED display that was co-developed with JOLED and TCL’s CSOT subsidiary. The article suggests that …

Tags:CSOT| InkJet Deposition| MicroLED| OLEDs| TCL

Reports: Samsung and Sony to launch QD-OLED TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Business Korea reported that Sony plans to be one of the first two TV suppliers to use QD-OLED panels from SDC, following Samsung Electronics. The paper reported that Samsung will show …

Tags:QD OLEDs| Samsung| sony