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Semiconductor intellectual property provider CAST, Inc. recently introduced the newest generation in its eighteen-year-long series of IP cores for video and image compression. The new 2016 Video and Image Compression Cores Family includes encoders and decoders covering a wide range of features and capabilities. Members of the family are each optimized for today’s most in-demand … Read more
Yes, smartphones are a major part of our lives, and God knows how we got along without them in the past. But like a new relationship, it’s the unknown baggage that can often sabotage a perfect match. Case in point, We never signed up for a lifetime of wires and charger cubes living next to … Read more
Insta360 Nano is the first HD camera to shoot and live-stream high definition virtual reality and panoramic stills and videos directly from an iPhone. The Apple MFi-approved Insta360 Nano simply clips onto an iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6s or 6s Plus. Additionally, for panoramic action shots or videos the Insta360 Nano can be attached to … Read more
New data from Juniper Research has found that revenues from SVOD (subscription video on demand) services, such as Netflix and Amazon, are set to more than double from $14.6 billion this year, to $34.6 billion in 2021. Netflix now sees US subscriber numbers level with leading network providers DirecTV & Comcast (47 million and 47.7 … Read more
A new technique, developed by computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, has increased the speed of rendering some particularly tricky graphics. Rendering specular highlights, or glints (such as reflections from uneven surfaces water, metals and other materials), is very complex. Light is scattered in many directions when it hits these surfaces, producing … Read more
BrightSign, LLC®, the global market leader in digital signage media players, and Project Audio Visual today announced the successful installation of a very unusual cylindrical digital signage column at theWestfield Shopping Centre in White City, London. Steve Hudson, Sales Director of Project Audio Visual, said, “We claim to be able to fulfil any brief, but … Read more
Nanoco Group has signed a seven-year supply and licensing agreement with Wah Hong Industrial Corporation to market cadmium-free quantum dots. The agreement will see Nanoco supplying its cadmium-free quantum dot resin, which Wah Hong will process and market it to its existing customers in the display industry.
A video wall, dubbed ‘Submergence’, has been developed by MVS Audio Visual for the Caviar House and Prunier outlet in Heathrow’s T5. The 7×2 wall uses 55″ LCD displays from LG and Datapath’s x4 video wall controller.
Samsung Electronics America, Inc., the leader in home entertainment for over 10 years, today announced that the Samsung SERIF TV is coming to the U.S. this summer. A true collaboration with acclaimed Parisian design duo Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, the Samsung SERIF TV redefines the television experience. It will be available starting in August at … Read more
SensoMotoric Instruments has unveiled a developer kit for the HTC Vive headset. The head mounted display (HMD) has been modified with the addition of small cameras and IR light sources, to enable eye tracking at 250Hz, using SMI’s computer vision algorithms. The VR with eye tracking also provides features like foveated rendering, gaze interaction, personal … Read more
The SID’s International Committee on Display Metrology (ICDM) was considering hosting a meeting on the 23rd and 24th August at IMID 2016 in Korea. However, it has decided that there is no support and has thus cancelled its plans.
Imagination Technologies has agreed a partnership with OTOY, a company specialising in graphics processing in the cloud. Imagination will integrate support for its PowerVR ray tracing technology into OTOY’s upcoming OctaneRender4 rendering engine, for VR, games and cinematic content creation. OTOY says that the OctaneRender4 software, on a PowerVR GR6500 GPU, can trace more than … Read more
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