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Microsoft introduces ‘Designed For Xbox’ monitor licensing program

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported on the new Philips Momentum ‘Designed for XBox’, but I missed the Microsoft blog on this initative. Although the site mentions HDR, 4K at 120Hz and VRR with HDMI2.1, …

Tags:Game Playing| Microsoft| Testing| xBox

Lenovo Wireless Charger Uses USB Type-C

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Lenovo has a new wireless charging mat accessory for its notebooks. The device, using ‘Power by Contact’ technology from Energy Square uses a 3.2mm thick mat that is left on the …

Tags:Lenovo| Notebooks| Wireless Charging

Stanford Researchers Develop New Manufacturing Technique For Flexible Electronics

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Stanford University reports that its researchers have developed a technique for making ‘atomically thin’ flexible transistors that are less than 100 nanometres in length. Using CVD, the researchers put a layer …

Tags:Flexible Devices| Flexible Displays| R&D (Research & Development)

Four Ways Mass-Market Consumer AR Could Become Reality

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Protocol interviewed Qualcomm’s GM of XR Hugo Swart who set out these four ‘roads to mass-market’ adoption: VR headsets with video pass-through: Facebook’s Quest already offers a rudimentary version of this, …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Qualcomm

Varjo Wants to Develop the Metaverse

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We listened in to a webinar by Varjo last week and the company announced that it has acquired a BIM software company, Dimension10 and wants to use technology from the firm …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mergers & Acquisitions| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Samsung, LG Conservative on OLED Investment

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec in Korea reported that LG Display and Samsung Display will be conservative in their spending to boost OLED capacity. Samsung is believed to be planning to convert is L7-2 …

Tags:Investment| LG Displays (LGD)| OLED Fabs| Samsung Display

Links Week Ending 25th June 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. LG rolls out Dolby Vision 120Hz update …

Facebook filed a patent for an artificial reality hat

by Bob Raikes

What They Say FoundersLegal spotted a patent awarded to Facebook for an AR hat, that was filed originally in 2019. By moving the display away from a glasses format, weight and heat can be …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Patents

Strategy Analytics Identifies New Actionable Tech Buyer Segments

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Strategy Analytics, still my least favourite international technology analyst company, have, nevertheless, published a new segmentation concept on how consumers are now buying and has defined the following segments: Aspiring Techno …

Tags:Market Data

LG Wins Design Patent on Horizontally Rollable TV

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Dutch language version of the LetsGoDigital website has reported on a new design patent granted to LG by The Hague International Design System, part of the World Intellectual Property Office …

Tags:Flexible Displays| LG Electronics (LGE)| Patents| Rollable Displays| TVs (TV Sets)

Porotech raises £3m for InGaN RGB microLEDs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Porotech of the UK announced that it has raised £3 million ($4.2m) to find the next stage in the development of its technology (Porotech Offers Native Red LED Epiwafers for MicroLED …

Tags:Investment| MicroLED| R&D (Research & Development)

Samsung Display completes QNED structure development

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that Korean OLED specialist analyst UBI Research has said that Samsung Display has now completed the development of the structure of its QNED technology. The firm has analysed …

Tags:Patents| QNED| R&D (Research & Development)| Samsung Display