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Iiyama Adds OPS to 24/7 Displays

Iiyama’s latest digital signage display, available in three sizes, is a slim (71mm) model for 24/7 applications. The LHxx81S displays can be mounted in portrait or landscape orientations, either solo or as part of a video wall: bezel width is 6.5mm. An integrated media player enables playback from sources such as a USB stick. An … Read more

IDC: Memory is Holding Back Chip Market

Worldwide semiconductor revenue will fall for the second consecutive year in 2016, to $324 billion: a 2.3% YoY decrease. The forecast comes from IDC, which also expects semiconductor revenues to log a CAGR of 1.9% between 2015 and 2020, ending the period at $364 billion. Global semiconductor demand will be affected by a softening of … Read more

Display Summit China Identifies Projection Industry Successes and Challenges

The Insight Media produced event, Display Summit China, has just concluded here in Yixing, China. I can’t speak for what the Chinese participants took away from the event, but I had some clear expected and not-expected take aways that I want to share below. Compound Photonics used the event to publicly describe for the first … Read more

VR Research Suggests Including Low Resolution Content in the Peripheral Vision to Decrease Nausea

A recently published article from the Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, “Augmenting the Field-of-View of Head-Mounted Displays with Sparse Peripheral Displays” by Robert Xiao, Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research and Hrvoje Banko, Microsoft Research presents some new ideas to make the VR experience less nauseating for users. … Read more

Osram Looks to Automotive for OLED

Arne Fleissner is a development engineer at Osram, and spoke about OLED lighting. Controversially, he began his discussion with the question, “Do we even need OLED any more?” OLED’s traditional advantages of large area and homogeneity can be accomplished with an LED light source and a diffuser, he argued. However, OLED still has advantages in … Read more

Sony Pictures, Madame Tussauds New York And The Void Team For “Ghostbusters”-Themed Immersive, Virtual Reality Experience

In advance of the July 15, 2016 release of Ghostbusters, one of the most highly anticipated films of the summer, Sony Pictures, Madame Tussauds New York, Ghost Corps and THE VOID have teamed up to bring Ghostbusters to life like never before. Included in the multi-sensory, all-immersive environment will be Ghostbusters: Dimension, a first-of-its-kind, virtual … Read more

TP Vision has Announced a Partnership with Leading Online Gaming Company GameFly

The new partnership with GameFly will allow existing and future owners of selected Philips, 2015 and 2016 Smart and Android TVs to play console quality gaming without the need to buy a dedicated gaming console. GameFly Streaming will join the existing huge base of gaming and video services already on the Philips Android platform all … Read more

AMOLED Narrows Gap with LTPS TFT-LCD

In a new research note, IHS has described the fast rise of AMOLED displays in smartphones, taking share from LTPS. LTPS TFT-LCD has dominated smartphone display shipments since Apple’s adoption for the iPhone in 2007. AMOLED has been used in Samsung phones for some time, but is only now beginning to see wider adoption, with … Read more

UniPixel Wins Programs with New Japanese PC OEM Customer

UniPixel, Inc., a provider of advanced touch solutions to the touchscreen and flexible electronics markets, today announced the addition of a new customer, a leading Japanese PC manufacturer, with design wins for two new notebooks. The two new notebooks will feature UniPixel’s XTouch and Diamond Guard technologies. The announcement of these two new programs brings … Read more

OLED Displays Will Dominate Printed Electronics

Raghu Das hosted the Printed Electronics keynote at the event. IDTechEx has worked in this space since 2001, and believes that it is now a $24.2 billion industry – including organic and flexible electronics. OLED displays will be the largest sector of the market this year, with a value of $16 billion. Sensors ($6.5 billion) … Read more