HTC Moves Viveport out of beta
HTC has announced of Viveport at Los Angeles during a virtual reality expo – VRLA. The store will be accessible in more than 30 countries.
How to Best Use Flexible OLEDs?
This week’s issues are a little late – apologies for that, but we hope we’ve finally caught up after IFA and IBC. This week we have quite a lot of stories in Mobile Display Monitor about the developments in flexible OLEDs. Samsung has done very well with its Edge product design, which has captured buyers’ … Read more
SVoD-only households booming
Ampere Analysis of the UK, which has a number of analysts from the previous Screen Digest that was taken over by IHS, said that the number of households globally that that only have SVOD is growing in every country studied, and the number of services that those households subscribe to is also growing, to an … Read more
Blueboat and Cube Sign Distribution Deal
Bullboat is now distributing Cube’s pocket projectors in France, Germany, Spain, Sweden and the UK.
LG OLED Prices in UK Cheaper than US!
We saw that the LG G6 65″ OLED is now selling from Amazon in the US at $5,999, down from the previous price of $7,999, so we checked locally and saw that it is selling at just £3,698 in the UK on Amazon, which at the current exchange rates is $4,666, including 20% VAT ($3,888) … Read more
Sharp Commits to OLED Pilot Lines
Sharp said that $570 million, part of the money that Foxconn committed to future investment in Sharp when it took over the business, will be spent on building two pilot OLED manufacturing lines in Osaka and Mie. Production is likely to start in the summer of 2018. Analyst Comment These are relatively small investments compared … Read more
Philips HDR TV Now Released
After a delay, Philips‘ 65″ HDR TV has finally been released in Europe. The 7601 is LED-backlit with full-array local dimming, until now only on the 9 series TVs. The display has brightness of 700 cd/m² and boasts Ambilight, Android TV and UHD resolution within its aluminium frame. Although the company doesn’t quote a price, … Read more
Himax Hosts President Tsai Ing-Wen with AR/VR
During a visit by Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-Wen, Himax, a fabless supplier of display drivers, showed the latest technology that Himax is developing in AR and VR. The company claims that it has already invested more than $100 million in this area. In its second half guidance, Himax said that it continues to work with … Read more
First Study on Effects on Vision of HMDs Shows Little Impact
The Korea University College of Medicine in Seoul presented the results of the first ever study (reported by Healio Ocular Surgery News and published in the Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus) on the effects of head mounted displays on human vision. In their study they had 60 volunteers in the age group from 13 … Read more
Samsung Boosts Smartwatch Target
Samsung is widely reported to have increased its target for sales of its Galaxy S3 Watch which will start to ship in Q4. Reports have said that the company hopes to ship five million watches this year compared to 3.1 million (according to IDC) last year, and an increase of over 60%.
Note 7 to Go Back on Sale
Samsung has restarted supplying Galaxy Note 7 in Korea, from the 28th of September, although sales are not expected to resume so quickly in Europe. Reports say that 80% of the defective units affected by the battery problems it have been returned in Korea, but fewer in other regions. Samsung said that 95% of those … Read more
Learning from Successful Educational Projects
In an article published earlier this month (A 3D Success Story: The Wilson County Schools), I highlighted the efforts of the Wilson County Schools, a mid-sized district in Tennessee that was honored with one of ISTE’s highest awards, the ISTE Digital Content and Curriculum Achievement Award for 2016, for “Immersing students with 3D and Virtual … Read more
