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The Lowlands music festival in the Netherlands hosted the first edition of the Smartphone Orchestra this month. Attendees used their phones to collectively play a single piece of music, composed ahead of time for the occasion. Each user visited a website (smartmob.io), which tied their phone into the piece.
Bloomberg says that Xiaomi is preparing to enter the US smartphone market – a move that it has avoided until now, although it has been selling accessories like earbuds. Company VP Huge Barra, formerly of Google, said in an interview that Xiaomi can no longer afford to ignore the US, which remains the world’s largest … Read more
Facebook and Unity have announced the Facebook PC Gaming Platform: a competitor to platforms such as Steam and Origin. According to TechCrunch, it is an evolution of the Facebook Games Arcade, a beta of which was launched in May. The platform is intended as a focused place to browse games without the distraction of Facebook’s … Read more
Samsung has shown off a new curved (1,800R) monitor for gaming at Gamescom in Germany. The CFG70 is a 24″ model with a 144Hz refresh rate. Samsung claims that the monitor is the industry’s first with a 1ms (G2G) ‘moving picture response time’. It also has an OSD designed for gaming: the Gaming UX OSD, … Read more
ADI installed a new stadium screen in the UK at Norwich FC’s home, Carrow Road. Manufactured and designed by ADI, the new Epoch 400 has a 10mm pixel pitch. It is 45m². The screen can transform between portrait and landscape formats, making it a first of its kind in the football (soccer) world.
Jason Rubin, head of content at Oculus VR, said that ‘roomscale’ (360°) tracking (like that supported by the HTC Vive) may not be necessary for VR. Oculus has so far focused on front-facing VR experiences, with the trackers for its Touch controllers placed directly in front of the user. Speaking at Gamescom in Germany, Rubin … Read more
The PowerClaw is a set of haptic gloves that promise to make users feel not just touches, but wider sensations in virtual reality. Having recently launched an IndieGogo campaign, a prototype version was at Gamescom last week. According to Road to VR, the gloves uses a series of tiny motors and thermoelectric cells to replicate … Read more
As well as the mid-size panels that we covered last week, Innolux has shared news about the automotive displays that it is showing at Touch Taiwan (24th-26th August), which are designed for the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). Growing shipments of connected cars are driving demand for premium automotive displays: an area that Innolux is keen … Read more
AOC, one of the top global brands in the display market, presents its first virtual reality head-mounted display (HMD) at gamescom in Cologne from 18-21 August 2016. Virtual reality has a history of being declared “the next big thing” and failing miserably a short time after the hype was at its peak. In 2016, however, … Read more
Exertis has appointed Fabrice Pierga as its new country director in France. Pierga will manage all of Exertis’s operations in France aside from Exertis CUC, which handles cables and connectors. Pierga was CEO of CPM for eight years, before joining Exertis in January this year.
Germany’s Data Display Group has launched a new version of its 55″ LCD video wall display. This model has lower brightness and a thicker bezel than its previous screen, at 500 cd/m² (vs 700 cd/m²) and 9.2mm (vs 5.7mm). Other specifications, such as 1920 x 1080 resolution and 178° viewing angles, are the same. The … Read more
LG’s 2015 OLEDs; EF9500 (EF950V) and EG920V, can finally now stream Netflix in HDR quality thanks to an update that was released earlier this week. The update was done as a free over-the-air software update enabling the 2015 LG OLED TVs to stream select TV series and movies from Netflix in HDR10 format.
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