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Matterport Virtual Reality (VR) Content Now Available on Apple iPhone

Immersive media platform company Matterport today announced VR support for Apple’s iPhone. The Matterport VR app offers an easy-to-use option to publish any Matterport 3D Space in VR and is the fastest and least expensive end-to-end system for delivering a VR experience of a real-world place. This announcement represents another major leap forward for the … Read more

HTC VIVE Launches $10 Million “VR For Impact” Program At World Economic Forum 2017

HTC VIVE™, the leader in room-scale Virtual Reality (VR), today announced VR For Impact, a $10 Million program to drive VR content and technologies that will create positive impact and change in support of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Virtual Reality provides a tremendous opportunity to develop and share ideas in impactful … Read more

Siemens Awarded Emmy for Technical and Engineering Contribution to Modern-day Television

Siemens today announced that it has been awarded an Emmy for Technical/Engineering Achievement from The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) for an invention that led to the creation of modern-day television. The company was recognized in an awards presentation at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show. In … Read more

Android TV 6.0 Upgrade Starts at Philips

Philips

TV makers are running at different versions of Android and we reported that Sony is to upgrade to Android 6.0 (Android 7 Gets to Shield and (later) Sony). Now Philips is rolling out an update that includes some bug fixes to help with issues seen with the PlayStation 4 Pro as well as adding support … Read more

Barco At DistribuTech with Walls and OpSpace

We reported on new laser-based (not laser phosphor) rear projection cubes in general in our coverage of the Display Summit conference at Infocomm (DS31 Barco Happy with RP Cubes for Control Rooms). However, somehow, Barco sneaked out the ODL-721 last year, without us picking it up. The 70″ cube has brightness 940/730/364 cd/m² with lifetimes … Read more

TCA Looks for VR to Take Off in 2016

At the Taiwan Game Show, the Taipei Computer Association said that it expects the VR market to expand rapidly after growing to $1.8 billion in 2016, up 7.4% from 2015. Acer, HTC, MSI and Pegatron are all based in Taiwan and developing their business in this area. A figure of $2.8 billion (source:Superdata) was quoted … Read more

Vivitek Debuts First 4K Home Theater Projector

The new Vivitek’s HK2288 projector debuted at CES 2017 is the inaugural product for its new 4K Home Cinema Projector Product Series. A second model, the DH765Z-UST, is a Full HD ultra-short-throw laser projector boasting a 150” display with a 30.7” throw. It is aimed at the education market. The HK2288 is lamp-powered, not laser … Read more