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In their recent shareholder meeting the Nintendo management was asked about their plans for AR, VR and Mixed Reality technology. The answers were relatively vague. It seems that, for now, the upcoming Nintendo game console may not support AR / VR / MR technology. Nintendo stated that they are researching the topic, but still see … Read more
Casio America, Inc., a leading innovator in the world of data projection, is proud to announce that its LampFree® XJ-F210WN Advanced Series Projector has received two “Best of Show Awards” from NewBay Media publications Tech & Learning and Digital Signage, at InfoComm 2016, which took place in Las Vegas, Nevada earlier this month. Products that … Read more
The latest builds of Google Chrome Beta and Google Chrome Dev on Android show that Google is working to bring virtual reality to the web. Chrome Beta now contains a WebVR setting, which enables enhanced VR device compatibility for websites built with WebVR. In addition, Chrome Dev now contains a ‘VR Shell’ setting; this enables … Read more
Netflix is the EU’s SVoD market leader, with a 52% shareData from the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) shows that SVoD subscribers in the region rose 56% between 2014 and 2015. The organisation expects subscriptions to reach 50 million homes by 2020 (roughly double today’s figure). The largest adoption was seen in the UK, Ireland, Netherlands … Read more
Swisscom is using Cisco’s UltraHD live encoding solution to run its new UltraHD TV service, which was launched on the 14th April. Swisscom wanted to focus on picture quality and stability.
NEC has signed a distribution agreement with Metra Group in Egypt. Metra will distribute NEC’s display products, and will focus on adding new government and public sector customers.
A British prime minister of the 1960s, Harold Wilson, is famous for saying once that “A week is a long time in politics”. Frankly, in my home country of the UK, a day seems a long time at the moment. As I said last week, I generally try to avoid politics in my editorials as … Read more
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) have formally agreed to merge their businesses. An agreement was reached on the 26th May and announced on the 30th June. The merger is expected to be complete by Q4’17. A holding company (ASE and SPIL Discuss Holding Company) will be established to own both firms. … Read more
Nvidia has released a firmware update for its Shield set-top box, which adds HDR support for Netflix video. YouTube videos can be viewed in UltraHD at 60fps, and Vudu UltraHD is also supported. In addition, Nvidia has added Plex media server support and voice search for Netflix, Spotify and Vudu.
In the early years of mass projector purchasing by schools and universities (I have floated some very large tenders myself), the key “look for” was brightness or lumens. That made particular sense in K-12 (primary & secondary schooling), because most classrooms were built with no understanding of projectors in mind. School architects built classrooms with … Read more
As an educational technology director for 25 years, with a significant track record in large educational technology and AV purchases, I have a keen eye for the application of emerging technologies that might transform the ed market landscape. Enter virtual reality. It’s a red hot topic. Given the recent hubbub that is usually associated with … Read more
Imagination Technologies and China-based 3Glasses announce they are collaborating to promote ray tracing technology in mass-market consumer virtual reality (VR) devices. 3Glasses, product brand of Virtual Reality (VR) Technology Ltd., is a provider of innovative VR devices. Imagination, whose PowerVR graphics IP leads the market in technological capability, provides hardware ray tracing technology that raises … Read more
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