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Links Week Starting 17th October 2022

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 first part of this week. For the next couple of weeks, we …

Tags:Acer| Desktop Monitors| Europe| | Game Playing| Market Data| OLED & QD-OLED Monitors| OLED Monitors| OLED Notebooks| Power Consumption| Samsung| Testing| ViewSonic| Virtual Reality

Micledi and Kura partner to develop AR glasses

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Micledi said that it is working with Kura on the development of AR glasses and said that the firms have been working together for over a year. The glasses will use …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Microdisplays

Breylon and Zmicro have partnered for Military Applications

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Display start-up Brelyon has teamed up with ZMicro to provide its ‘large display image in a small package’ systems for applications including military vehicles.  Built upon work from the MIT Media …

Tags:Military & Defence| Novel Displays

Snapdragon XR2+ Latency Impresses

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Meta has used Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR2+ chip in its new Quest Pro headset (Meta Quest Pro Revealed) and one of the key features that has enabled the passthrough AR is the …

Tags:Mixed Reality| Qualcomm| Video Processors

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Apple Adds New Supplier for miniLED SMT

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported last month on a possible move to Hybrid OLED technology for the iPad by 2024 (Apple expected to use hybrid OLED for iPad). Now Digitimes reports that Taiwan Surface Mounting …

Tags:Apple| iPad| MiniLED

EU Corrects Power Calculation Equation

by Bob Raikes

 What They Say In the discussions on the website about the issue of power consumption and 8K TVs, I found the regulations very confusing as the equation for calculation didn’t seem to make sense …

Tags:Europe| Power Consumption

Meta Quest Pro Revealed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say As expected, Meta showed off its new headset: It costs $1500 It has eye- and face-tracking and colour passthrough AR using 3 Cameras. The pancake optics are 40% slimmer and IPD …

Tags:| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

Notebook Market Consolidating Around Big Six

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We were digging around to find the source of an article by The Elec that suggested that the current LCD Panel oversupply will continue to 2023, quoting Trendforce, when we found …

Tags:Notebooks| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Pricing| Samsung

Acer Unveils the World’s Lightest 16-inch OLED Laptop

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Acer announced that it has the lightest OLED notebook with a 16″ OLED display. The 3840×2400 display has support for100% of DCI-P3, 500 cd/m² peak brightness, and <0.2ms response time. It has …

Tags:Acer| Notebooks| OLEDs

TV Panel Price Trends in Sep. 2022 (Early September Version)

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sigmaintell of China released its data for early September TV LCD panel prices and despite this normally being a ‘hot season’ for TV panel purchases, the firm said that the market …

Tags:Large LCD Supply| Pricing