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Showstopper at NAB 2016 was the venue and Brother was the company showing its AR headset. It has been for sale in Japan since last November and will now be offered in the U.S. this June for $1,400. Called the AiRScouter, this is a monocular eyepiece design attached to a pair of safety glasses and … Read more
Just before NAB, Portrait Displays announced that it had purchased SpectraCal. (Portrait Displays Acquires SpectraCal) Portrait is a supplier of calibration services to OEM display customers and provides the Technicolor certification for colour performance. SpectraCal offers some of the best calibration software in the industry, including leading edge HDR capabilities. Portrait Displays provides visual enhancement … Read more
Some recent testing of 4K HDR TVs by HDTVTest suggests that as the ambient light in the room increases, the benefit of the HDR technology diminishes rapidly (http://tinyurl.com/hnlfmwr). Reviewers came to this conclusion after comparing 2K and 4K Blu-ray content on 4K TVs calibrated for SDR and HDR with the room lights on. Specifically, they … Read more
An article by Science 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/zofpwud) describes a university study that looked at how to improve the optical performance of VR headsets. The study was a combined effort between Stanford and Dartmouth University and will be presented at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in May. The electrical engineering group at Stanford … Read more
Comcast today announced the launch of the Xfinity TV Partner Program to expand the range of retail devices its customers can use to access their Xfinity TV service. Leveraging open standard technologies, such as HTML5, the Xfinity TV Partner Program provides a common framework to which smart TV, TV-connected and IP-enabled retail device manufacturers can … Read more
NEC Display Solutions of America, a leading provider of commercial LCD display and projector solutions, announced today that NEC Partner Net was named a CRN Magazine Five-Star Partner Program for 2016. The recognition marks the sixth consecutive year that NEC appears among the elite vendors in CRN’s Partner Program Guide. The yearly directory is the … Read more
Altera, now a part of Intel Corporation, is demonstrating its field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for broadcast and ProAV markets at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Conference being held at the Las Vegas Convention Center, in Las Vegas, NV, from April 18-21 (Booth #SU9817). Altera FPGAs, such as Arria® 10 and Stratix® with its … Read more
Vuzix® Corporation, (“Vuzix” or, the “Company”), a leading supplier of video eyewear and smart glasses products in the consumer, enterprise and entertainment markets, is pleased to announce that the company is one of the first developers to have access to the GoPro Developer Program toolkits. GoPro manufactures wearable cameras and enables some of the most … Read more
CinemaCon is a relatively new show in the industry, with its first iteration taking place in 2011. As well as showing off new cinema technologies and products – The Hobbit in HFR was previewed at the 2012 event – the event is a chance to see clips of upcoming films and meet the stars. This … Read more
We have plenty of news for you this week. We’ve included the items from last week’s Cinemacon and we are publishing our NAB stories as we go along on the website. We’ll have the full report next week, but it’s clear from the content side that there was some impressive video being shown. Two of … Read more
The two most hotly-anticipated virtual reality headsets – the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift – have been launched worldwide and are now shipping to (a few) lucky customers. Analysts are very excited about the technology, releasing heady predictions of millions of shipments and billions of dollars of revenue this year. Back in February, Gartner forecast … Read more
Kyocera has been honoured by the City of San Diego with a ‘2016 Recycler of the Year’ award, for its recycling and waste reduction efforts. Kyocera has received the award nine times now, and this marks the 16th consecutive year the company has received a recycling award from the City of San Diego. In total … Read more
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