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Oculus Streaming World Cup Matches in VR via Venues App

Oculus is streaming a small selection of matches from this year’s World Cup competition free of charge, through its new social viewing app, Venues. The first match to be streamed via the app took place last weekend, with other streams planned for June 20th, 22nd and 24th. Venues allows users to watch events such as … Read more

Cineworld to Launch 100 ScreenX Locations Across the U.S. and Europe, Marking Significant Expansion of the Immersive Movie Environment

CJ 4DPLEX has announced a partnership with Cineworld Group to open 100 ScreenX locations at its theatres in the next few years. This agreement, which marks a major milestone for both companies, will include installing the multi-projection cinematic system in 10 different countries: U.S., U.K., Israel and seven other European countries. This marks a major … Read more

Dolby Announces European Cinema Market Expansion at CineEurope 2018

Dolby Laboratories, Inc. returns to CineEurope 2018 (Expo Hall, Suite B) at the Centre de Convencions Internacional Barcelona (CCIB) to showcase global expansion momentum for Dolby Cinema and its full spectrum of industry-leading solutions, including newly available products to deliver end-to-end audio, imaging, accessibility, and post-production technology for the cinema industry. As Dolby Cinema continues … Read more

 Intel Confirms Plan for Discrete Graphics Cards

There was a flurry of activity in personnel, with staff moving between Intel and AMD some months ago and now Intel has confirmed plans to enter the discrete graphics card market in 2020, after Brian Krzanich told analysts at a private investors meeting. They will be aimed at data centre applications, but also consumer markets … Read more

EMEA Smartphone Markets Hit Record Value Despite Smartphone Slowdown

The region’s smartphone market showed some stability in the first quarter of 2018 in unit terms, while its value grew to exceed its previous first quarter peak result in the first quarter of 2015, according to IDC. The total value of smartphone sales was $29.967 billion and unit volume was 86.523 million. Program director Simon … Read more

China to Boost LED Capacity

Digitimes reports that Chinese LED makers are boosting the capacity for LED manufacture with 300 more MOCVD equipment sets coming online in the period from October 2018 to the end of March 2019. That will add 4.9 million wafers per month to capacity (1.45 million more in 2018, 3.45 million more in 2019). Production value … Read more

Report: Spain Could Actually Have 6 Million Netflix Users

IAB Spain has reported that the number of Netflix users in Spain could be four times more than regulatory body CNMC’s estimate of 1.5 million, according to Advanced Television. IAB’s survey finds that 25% of internet users aged between 16 and 65 consume content via Netflix. That equates to 6 million users — four times … Read more

The Shrek of Quantum Dots

If you buy a quantum-dot (QD) or QLED-enchanced LCD-TV, it will have quantum dots made by or licensed by Nanosys. There are other quantum dot companies playing around the edges, and some claim they sell sdots — but for some reason those dots don’t appear in products any of us buy. (see Pete’s roundups for … Read more

ePaper Roundup: E Ink and ClearInk

Last year at Display Week, there were several start-ups showing reflective displays of one sort or another. This year, the interlopers were gone, and we were free to concentrate on was now-maturing E Ink and the feisty newcomer ClearInk. E Ink E Ink Chief Strategy Officer Paul Apen told Display Monitor that the company was … Read more

MicroLEDs Raise their Epitaxial Heads at Display Week

microLED displays — displays consisting of micron-scale inorganic LED chips that are not individually packaged — have been much discussed but little seen. At Display Week, though, several microLED technology demonstrations could be seen on the show floor, at least two others were shown behind closed doors or were pulled from a briefcase, and there … Read more