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Walt Disney’s film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story will be available in over 50 Dolby Cinema locations around the world when it arrives on December 15th. Dolby boasts high dynamic range and accentuates the black of space, the intense colours of different worlds and the dynamic sound effects. The number of cinemas able to … Read more
Sony said that St John’s University in New York City in the US has switched to laser phosphor projectors supplied by and with Whitlock. The college highlighted resolution and the size and accuracy of the images shown as well as brightness. Another critical point was good video and text performance. Staff also highlighted the fast … Read more
SES said that 4KUniverse will use the SES-1 satellite to deliver UltraHD content in the US, the fourth UHD channel to join the platform, which is expected to grow to eight by January. The channel will offer a range of content including entertainment and documentaries.
Amazon has started a trial of a new shop concept that it is calling “Just Walk Out” in Seattle. Customers swipe into the store using a ‘Go’ app, then the shop systems track items taken from or returned to the shelves. Once the shopper leaves the store, the charge is made. The store will focus … Read more
Thanks to sixteen.nine for pointing us to a project undertaken by ESI Design to create an area called “Main Street” at eBay’s campus in Silicon Valley. There’s a full report on ESI’s site, but the area uses a number of displays including an interactive touch video wall system and even the columns in the entry … Read more
On November 15th, Chris Ward and two of his colleagues at Lightspeed Design, Inc., were issued US Patent 9,494,805 titled “Stereoscopic Light Recycling Device.” Additional patents are either granted or pending in Canada, China, and Europe, according to the company. DepthQ CineBright compared to a DepthQ modulator that does not use polarization recycling. The two … Read more
Debuted just prior to I/ITSEC at the Autodesk University event in Las Vegas, the company was also demonstrating a content creation tool called ‘Skofield’ at I/ITSEC as well. Skofield is a cloud-based application targeting aerospace, automotive, and architecture, but is designed to be very simple to use. In the demo we had, the company described … Read more
Thales bought the tracking company InterSense awhile back and it was this group that we met with at I/ITSEC 2016. They showed us a new product, dubbed IS-1500, that is designed to help with mixed reality applications in areas where you can’t get a GPS signal. Historically, InterSense has offered opto-intertial tracking units. One example … Read more
Third Dimension Technologies showed off its projector-based light field simulator display at I/ITSEC 2016. They showed a similar demo at last year’s show, but this year they had a full fifth generation fighter cockpit to add more realism to the demo. This is the first time they have publically demonstrated this capability. But it may … Read more
In a backroom at I/ITSEC 2016, Sony was showing a comparison of its native 4K projector vs. an e-shift model from JVC. The e-Shift model use 1080p imagers and creates two sub-fields at a 120 Hz rate that are offset in the diagonal direction by a ½ pixel (using an optical shifting element). Sony wanted … Read more
High performance HMD maker SA Photonics showed their range of monocular and binocular head-mounted Displays (HMDs) at I/ITSEC 2016. Of note was their new monocular see-thru module that features a new OLED panel from eMagin. eMagin has not released any details on this new panel and Mike Brown of SA was careful not to say … Read more
Rockwell Collins showed several mixed reality (MR) and augmented reality (AR) applications at I/ITSEC 2016 that were good. In the mixed reality camp was a new product they call Coalescence. This is a commercially available Oculus rift headset and tracker system which has been enhanced with a small set of stereo cameras on the front … Read more
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