Analogix is enjoying life at the moment as USB-C with the DisplayPort alt mode is helping to drive its business. At the show, the company told us about a new reference design for the integration of the new Mediatek Helio X30 and the ANX7625 to enable USB-C with DisplayPort from mobile devices. That’s ideal for attaching monitors or VR headsets. Still on the VR topic, the firm was talking about the way that its ANX7325 and ANX753X can be used to drive 8 MIPI lanes of display output for dual displays in a VR headset application.
ARM doesn’t usually make announcements at the show, leaving that to those that license its IP. At the show, the main adoptor was Mediatek with the Helios X30. However, the firm told us that it now has its cores in 100 billion devices, up from 50 billion four years ago. It expects the IoT to mean another 100 billion in the next four years!
We think this shows Chirp finger tracking. Image:Meko
We grabbed the picture above as the show as we were passing as it was closing and didn’t get any notes. However, we think that it shows Chirp of Silicon Valley which was showing how its ultrasonic gesture technology could be used to detect the finger motions of somebody interacting with a projected keyboard and may have been on the ST booth (likely at ST makes MEMs devices like the Chirp transducers and the companies collaboarted at CES, recently). Chirp’s technology can also be used for gesture tracking with ‘millimetre accuracy’ in VR applications.
ANX7325 and ANX753X can be used to drive 8 MIPI lanes of display output for dual displays in a VR headset. Image:Meko
ChaseWind is from Taiwan and is developing an augmented reality headset that is specifically designed for cycling. The company told us that it saw solutions such as the Garmin display as being problematic as they fit existing glasses and all the weight is on one side. By developing its own glasses, the firm hopes to keep the weight more balanced. The display is an 800 x 600 LCOS solution that has a 17º field of view. The glasses will have a full Android system and the battery life is estimated at 4 hours. The target price is $500.
ChaseWind had a prototype of a pair of AR cycling glasses. Image:Meko
Thin Client software company, Citrix, was at the Pepcom evening event, but had nothing to tell us about protocols or hardware and seems to be pivoting to be seen just as a supplier of cloud-based apps for enterprises.
Corning had a meeting room, but was only talking to customers and not to analysts or press.
