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Swiss firm Vedavi is a medical animation studio, working with the University of Zurich to bring VR to students. The VR Human Anatomy software is similar to the zSpace tool, except that it uses VR rather than standard stereo 3D. Students can use the Oculus Touch controllers to take apart pieces of the human body … Read more
Panasonic has decided to stop producing LCD TV panels, due to high competition from firms in China, South Korea and Taiwan. Production at the Himeji plant in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan will cease by the end of September, sources told the Nikkei newspaper. Corporate clients have already been informed. The Himeji plant began production in 2010, … Read more
Exertis is now distributing smartphones, tablets and notebooks from Germany’s Medion in the UK.
Dell showed off a convertible PC, the Inspiron 17 7000, which appears to take cues from Lenovo’s Yoga products. It has a 360° hinge and touchscreen as standard. Available in 13″, 15″ and 17″ sizes, the product will be available in June, starting at $730. It is notable as the world’s first 17″ convertible. The … Read more
Nokia has closed its acquisition of Withings S.A (Nokia Plans to Acquire Withings), establishing a new Digital Health business unit. The new unit will be led by Cédric Hutchings, formerly CEO of Withings.
Over a year ago, the IOC said that it did not plan to support UltraHD broadcasts during this summer’s Olympic Games (IOC Has ‘No Plans’ for UltraHD in Rio), as broadcasters had not shown interest. Now, shortly before the event is due to start, NBC has said that it will make UltraHD content from the … Read more
Several companies worked together at the CommunicAsia 2016 show, to deliver live HDR UltraHD TV over satellite. The demonstration took place on MEASAT’s stand. It used HEVC-encoded content at 50fps, with 10-bit colour, broadcast on the DVB-S2X platform at 25Mbps. Ateme, BBright, Mstar Semiconductor and Newtec all worked on the project.
Tianma had plenty new to show us, even though we have met up with the firm at CES and MWC already this year. Automotive is a strong area for the firm and the first display we looked at was a 12.3″ curved LCD. It also had a 14.1″ LCD for centre console applications with 2560 … Read more
We reported quite a lot of new products from Mitsubishi in our Embedded World report, so we were quite surprised to see how much was new at SID. First, we looked at a 4.3″ IPS display that has 1,000 cd/m² of output. Resolution is 480 x 272. The AA035AE01 is a 3.5″ LCD with 400 … Read more
When we met Canatu at CES, the company expressed frustration at the number of design wins that it has achieved, but that which it cannot publicise for contractual reasons. However, at SID, the company showed us that it has added its 12µ film to an E ink-based smartwatch device from Wove. It uses a Polyera … Read more
The characterization of speckle is an on-going area of development and becoming more critical as laser-based projection systems expand beyond their initial deployments in digital cinema. There were four papers in session 10 on laser speckle, which we summarize below. Junichi Kinoshita of Osaka University explained their way of describing speckle as a combination of … Read more
BOE has gradually been boosting its marketing around the world and had a good array of different panels for a range of applications this year. although CSOT of China, which came to San Jose last year did not take a booth this year) . BOE has been boosting its global presence and now has an … Read more
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