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3D Touch Developer Announces Completion of Series A1 Funding

Cambridge Touch Technologies (CTT) — a developer of AI-driven, 3D multi-touch sensing technologies — has announced the completion of a $5.5 million Series A1 round of investment. Existing investors Parkwalk Advisors, Cambridge Enterprise and Amadeus Capital Partners participated in the round, joined by new investors China Materialia from Shanghai and Downing Ventures, based in London, … Read more

BC12 Panel Session Covers TV Quality

The final session in the morning was a Q&A that included O’Brien, Baker, Stump and Tim Alessi, an executive from LG Electronics. Alessi agreed with Baker that getting the mix right in going to market is important for brand success. The CTA has said that there are more TVs than people in the US and … Read more

BC11 Cinematographers Have Some TV Requests

The next speaker was a ‘local’ from the TV content business in Los Angeles. David Stump is chairman of the camera committee and display committee of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC). He gave a cinematographer’s eye view on displays. Stump said that frame rates and interpolation on current TVs are the big gripes from … Read more

BC10 O’Brien Looks at Potential Tariff Issues

Bob O’Brien of DSCC then talked about the global TV market. He started by saying that in the developed world there is little chance to increase TV set sales volume, but there are opportunities in the developing world. Unfortunately, demand in those regions can be limited by high duty levels and inefficient supply chains. Panel … Read more

BC09 NPD’s Baker Stays Realistic

We have reported on talks by Stephen Baker of NPD several times of the years and he always has a very realistic view on the TV market, especially in the US, where NPD collects retail sell through data from major retailers. There have been some significant price declines in TVs in the US, but also … Read more

TADF Players on the Show Floor Ranged from C to K

TADF (thermally activated delayed fluorescence) is a clever quantum-mechanical trick that permits us to make use of the the three quarters of quantum states in fluorescent OLED emitters that are usually unavailable, thus increasing the internal quantum efficiency from 25% to 100%. Universal Display Corporation (UDC) already does this with red and green phosphorescent OLED … Read more

Denver International Airport to Increase Gate Capacity by 30%

39 new gates will be added across four concourses at Denver International Airport as part of a $1.5 billion expansion project, scheduled to conclude by spring 2021. The new capacity represents a 30% boost to gate capacity and will allow the airport to accommodate more airlines, both local and international. The expansion is part of … Read more

ROE LED Displays Chosen for 44th Annual EO Youth Day

The 44th EO Youth Day recently took place in Arnhem, The Netherlands. The stage design used over 250m² of LED screens and strips. Faber Audiovisual supplied all visuals for the event. The set design included ROE Visual’s Magic Cube MC-7 panels, which were used for the main stage screen and DJ Booth, and feature a … Read more

Sony Empowers Organisations to Display a Better, Brighter Image for their Business with a New BRAVIA 4K Professional Range

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Sony has accelerated its vision to redefine workspaces with the global launch of 6 new BZ35F BRAVIA 4K Professional Displays. The slim, energy-efficient series of Professional Displays bring improved brightness of 620 cd/m²* to produce vivid, beautiful 4K HDR image quality. Running on Android TVTM OS, they also feature 24/7** operation as standard alongside easy … Read more

Researchers Use Gaze-Tracking to Double the Size of VR Spaces

A group of researchers from Stony Brook University in New York, in collaboration with Nvidia and Adobe, have created a new eye-tracking technique designed to make virtual spaces feel more open and free. The technique, called dynamic saccadic redirection, tracks saccades — rapid, unconscious eye movements made every few seconds that are suppressed by the … Read more