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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
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
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
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
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
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, 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
Holograms is a recording of two or three dimensional medium of an interference pattern formed by interaction of monochromatic sourced light beam with the beam of similar wavelength coming from the object. When it is illuminated by the source light beam the interference pattern regenerates the wave fronts from the original object as a result … Read more
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
Ahead of the release of the new Ghostbusters film in July, Sony Pictures has worked with Madame Tussauds New York, Ghost Corps and The Void (The Void Creates VR War Games…And Dragons) to create an immersive VR experience. With a combination of a dedicated area, props and virtual reality, visitors will be able to “answer … Read more
Image: The IndependentAmimon is a company specialising in latency-free wireless HD video transmission (the technology is called Connex), and has now unveiled an HDMI product. The Connex ProSight HD Vision Kit is intended for the growing drone racing market, and consists of an HD camera, transmitter and receiver. The camera-to-receiver link has a maximum (wireless) … Read more
IAdea’s AnyTiles video wall engine is being used in a 10m-wide installation in the Shanghai Hongqiao Commercial Business District, in China. 36 narrow-bezel LCD displays are being used in a 4 x 9 configuration (10m x 3m), with a total resolution of 17280 x 7680. AnyTiles stitches together the output of several media players (in … Read more
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