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The worldwide smart home devices market — inclusive of smart speakers, digital media adaptors, lighting, thermostats and more — is forecast to ship 549.5 million devices in 2018, growing 26.8% over the prior year, according to IDC. The hottest two categories — smart speakers and video entertainment products — are expected to represent 71% of … Read more
Worldwide spending on traditional hardware, software, services and telecommunications is on course for growth of 3.7% this year in constant currency, slightly down from last year’s 4.2% growth, and will reach $4 trillion in 2018, according to IDC. However, a weakening economy, related in part to tariffs, rising interest rates and slowing growth in China, … Read more
Korean publication ET News recently revealed that LG Display has decided to skip ahead to producing OLED panels at its forthcoming 10.5G fab in Paju, South Korea, according to Digitimes (although we couldn’t dig out the ET News report) Originally, it was said that the facility would be sticking to making LCD panels during its … Read more
New video research from Parks Associates finds more than 85% of millennials in U.S. broadband households subscribe to at least one OTT video service. This research comes from Parks Associates’ OTT Video Market Tracker, which includes an exhaustive analysis of market trends and profiles of OTT video service providers in the U.S. and Canada, such … Read more
New research from Parks Associates finds that more than 85% of millennials in US broadband households subscribe to at least one OTT video service. Senior director of research Brett Sappington commented: “Overall penetration of subscription OTT video services among millennials has topped out, suggesting that those households that want such a subscription already have one … Read more
New data from research firms NPA Conseil and Harris Interactive reveals that an average of 2.2 million people aged 15 and over in France are using an SVoD service every day. The beginning of June was particularly busy, with 2.6 million SVoD users on average each day between the 4th and 10th of June. This … Read more
A new survey from Spain’s competition and markets watchdog Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) has revealed that 33% of the country’s homes had pay TV at the end of 2017, a 5% growth over 2016, as reported by Advanced Television. According to the report, 15% of subscribers were attracted to their … Read more
When will consumers come around to face-worn display technology? According to past forecasts, that should have already happened, yet it seems that just because a display technology can be “perfected” a great display alone is not enough to ensure adoption of said technology without something else… A case in point was what happened with 3DTV … Read more
AGC was showing its Glascene diffusion glass which is available in front or rear configurations and allows the use of projectors to create AR applications for retail and other shared spaces. The glass is currently on sale in Japan and the company was at the show to get feedback. AGC was showing this front projection … Read more
Lumus, based in Israel, is a developer of high quality waveguides for AR that it has been making for seven or eight years, through a partnership with Thales of France (and we have been reporting on the company since SID in 2005!). Much of the early demand was for military and simulation use and where … Read more
Varjo was in a hotel suite near the show and was showing the latest version of the headset that we first saw at MWC (We Get a Chance to Look at Varjo’s Headset) and which combines a high resolution centre area of the display with a lower resolution wide field of view display. We thought … Read more
ThirdEye is a maker of smartglasses that is based in Princeton, New Jersey. The X1 glasses are built around a complete system based on a Snapdragon 820 with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. The system runs Android 7.0 and ThirdEye has companies including Lockheed Martin and Boeing as customers. The glasses are based … Read more
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