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Links Week Starting 3rd 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 – only a few as I have …

Tags:Advertising| Augmented Reality| Desktop Monitors| GPUs| Lenovo| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Power Consumption| Projectors| Samsung| Semiconductors| Smartphones| SVOD| tablets

Samsung 98″ Neo QLED Ups Peak Output to 5,000 cd/m²

by Bob Raikes

What They Say At Cedia in the US (the show for home cinema and high end TV), Samsung introduced its latest 98″ diagonal QN100B Neo QLED (miniLED) TV with an amazing peak brightness of …

Tags:MiniLED| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)

Tim Cook Believes in AR and the Metaverse

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple’s Tim Cook has been on a European tour and in an interview said that he doesn’t use the term ‘Metaverse’ as he is not sure that most people can tell …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality

MEMS Sensor Production Aided by LTPS Approach

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Optics.org reported on some intriguing technology research by several Fraunhofer establishments in Germany that allows the creation, effectively, of LTPS silicon layers on top of CMOS silicon wafers and circuits.  The …

Tags:LTPS TFT| R&D (Research & Development)| Semiconductors

Global XR (AR & VR Headsets) Shipments Market Share: By Quarter

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Counterpoint Research published some data on the development of the VR and AR markets. The firm said: Global XR  shipment volume grew by 4% YoY, which was underwhelming for an industry …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Market Data| Virtual Reality

Google Shutting Stadia – Logitech Goes for Cloud Gaming

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Google is shutting down its Stadia cloud gaming platform from January 2023 it said in a blog post. Specialists in gaming suggest that the service suffered from a weak selection of …

Tags:Cloud Gaming| Consoles| Google

LG Display Demos 30″ Transparent OLED at Innotrans

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG Display showed a new 30″ transparent OLED panel at Innotrans in Berlin at the end of September. The new size is shown in a YouTube video. OLED Info reported that …

Tags:Glass| LG Displays (LGD)| OLEDs| Transparent Displays| Transport

Amazon Echo Show 15 Gets FireTV

by Bob Raikes

  What They Say When Amazon released its latest set of products recently, one of the features that it updated was to add Fire TV to the Echo Show 15 smart displays, effectively turning …

Tags:Amazon| Streaming Video| TVs (TV Sets)| Voice Input

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Amazon’s Newest Kindle Comes With a Stylus for Writing

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Amazon has a new Kindle Scribe that will add stylus support with a device that will snap magnetically to the 10.2″ E Ink display in the Premium version. A basic pen …

Tags:Amazon| EPD (Electrophoretic)| eReaders

MSI Highlights QD OLED and Adds Touch Display

by Bob Raikes

What They Say MSI has again highlighted its 34″ QD-OLED panel-based gaming monitor in a global product launch. (Dell Alienware AW3423DW QD-OLED Review & MSI Joins In)  It’s base specification is similar to the Dell/Alienware …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| MSI| PCs| QD OLEDs| Touch Displays