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Vuzix Demonstrates New Waveguide Augmented Reality (AR) Technology

Vuzix® Corporation, a leading supplier of Video Eyewear and Smart Glasses products in the consumer, enterprise, and entertainment markets, announced today that it has released a short video demonstrating its new waveguide augmented reality (AR) technology at the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyxppK0sy6U&feature=youtu.be This clip shows raw video footage viewed through the waveguide at Vuzix’ New York … Read more

Epson PowerLite Named Favorite Projector Model in the rAVe Readers’ Choice Awards

Epson, the number-one selling projector brand worldwide, today announced its PowerLite® Series has been awarded the rAVe Readers’ Choice Award for Favorite Projector Model. The Epson PowerLite Pro L, Pro Z, and Pro G-Series projectors enable large venue installation with uncompromising image quality and high color brightness. rAVe received more than 81,000 votes from the … Read more

Opera TV Launches Next-Generation OTT TV App Technology

Opera TV today announced the launch of the latest update to its next-generation TV app technology, Opera TV Snap 3.0. The latest version of Opera TV Snap brings a complete end-to-end over-the-top (OTT) app generator for broadcasters, content providers, and video on demand (VOD) services. This full platform upgrade enables content providers to mix live … Read more

Industry Must Pull Together to Promote ‘Ultra Everything’

There was an introduction to the display set-up in the auditorium before the next presentation began. Chris Mullins of Sony Digital Cinema came on-stage to tell us about the projector, which was a Sony SRX-R515DS lamp-based model. Sony was also showing a laser projector, the VPL-GTZ270, in a separate area called the Innovation Zone; Mullins … Read more

Robust Tech Enables New Scenes for Pixar

The Hollywood Post Alliance Tech Retreat, co-organised by SMPTE, is dedicated to the technologies of film production. This year, for the first time, an edition of the event was held in the UK, in the cultivated wilderness of Heythrop Park in Oxfordshire – a convenient 20 minutes from your reporter’s home! The first talk we … Read more

Sony Digitises Alder Hey

The Alder Hey children’s hospital in the UK recently moved to a new facility, with 16 operating theatres – 13 of them featuring Sony monitors and room cameras. In total, Sony supplied 39 displays for the faciltiy’s ORs (26 27″ surgical displays, 13 43″ Bravia displays) and 343 screens around the hospital. These included 20 … Read more

Sharp Launches ‘Advanced Multi-Board’ to Link up Big Pads

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Sharp Europe today launches software that makes it possible to join together up to three 80” BIG PAD Pros, to create one huge interactive flat panel display. The ‘Advanced Multi-Board’ set-up, with three BIG PADs side-by-side, creates a surface that is 5.4m wide. Six people can work on the display at the same time. Christopher … Read more

Desender Replaces Peeters at Barco

Barco’s CFO, Carl Peeters, has decided to leave the company. He will be replaced by Ann Desender, currently VP of finance & control, in September. Peeters joined Barco in 1987, initially working in business development before becoming CFO of BarcoNet in 2000. He was appointed group CFO in 2010. Desender joined Barco in 2008, and … Read more

OLEDs Will Impact Mobile Phone LEDs

The market for LEDs used in phones (including for display backlights, keypad illumination and camera flash) will fall at a 2.6% CAGR between 2015 and 2021, says IHS Markit. The rising penetration of OLED display technology is given as the reason. IHS expects OLED display penetration to rise from 13% of mobile phones in 2015 … Read more

Google Scraps Headset – Or Does It?

Sources speaking to Recode have said that Google has cancelled the development of a standalone VR headset. The company declined to comment on the move, but Recode speculates that the decision comes from Google’s efforts to streamline its projects: shifting its focus to mobile VR, such as apps and services, rather than hardware. In May, … Read more

New VoD Service Scraps Geo-Locking

A new VoD service called Pantaflix will be launched in Europe and the USA on the 28th July, by Pantaleon Entertainment. Unlike rival services, Pantaflix will deal directly with producers, without involving sales companies or distributors. This means that revenues for content creators will be higher, says Pantaleon, and that content will not be geo-locked.