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Viaccess-Orca Live Streams UHD 360° Football

Viaccess-Orca and French TV channel TF1 trialled a live UltraHD 360° VR broadcast of a football match on the 29th March. The signal was encoded using HEVC and sent to a private test audience. The intent was to provide the audience with an actual stadium ambience. Harmonic, Keepixo, VideoStitch, AmpVisual TV and Digital Immersion also … Read more

Hybrids Replace Tablets in Enterprise

Juniper Research has published a whitepaper (http://tinyurl.com/za8auhw) discussing the role of hybrid (detachable) devices in the workplace – which are gradually replacing tablets. As well as this, the firm looks at phablets’ cannibalisation of the consumer smartphone market. In the future, Juniper predicts that most tablets – aside from the specifically designed for children – … Read more

Watching Displays at Night

For over 50 years people have been watching TVs at night – often very late right before going to bed. In fact, many also have a TV in their bedroom and watch from bed, before and even after turning out the lights. Many people consider TVs a sleep aide to help them relax before falling … Read more

ProLight & Sound 2016 Round Up

Alfalite is a Spanish company from Andalucia that is specialising in the design and manufacture of LED displays. At the moment, and for the last ten years, the displays have been made in China, but designed in Spain. However, the company is planning to start manufacturing in Spain later this year. The company has indoor … Read more

Oculus Killer: A $49 DIY Portable VR Console

With mass production of Next Thing Co.’s PocketC.H.I.P. underway, gamers, hackers, and musicians hotly anticipating the device have a brand new reason to be excited: The $49 handheld superconsole now takes users into the endless grid of Virtual Reality. CES and SXSW clearly established VR as 2016’s hottest technology, and everyone in Silicon Valley is … Read more

ProLight & Sound is Foggy

This year we went along to the ProLight & Sound Event in Frankfurt, one of the key European events in the rental and staging audio visual market. Although many of the companies that we spoke to had also been at ISE, there were some differences as they re-positioned themselves to the particular needs of the … Read more

Canatu Gains Another Wearables Customer Win with its Flexible Touch Sensor

Canatu’s flexible touch sensor, using CNB™ Flex Film, is an integral part of the product. The product is a curved wearable device with a flexible OLED touch display. With the market for flexible displays evolving rapidly, and very few enablers for flexible touch existing in this still niche market, Canatu’s products are garnering a lot … Read more

And Finally… Vol 23 No 13

On the 1st April Next Thing Co. announced that its PocketC.H.I.P mini computer, launched in 2009, is set to become one of 2016’s hottest pieces of technology, thanks to the low cost of making it VR-ready. With the simple addition of 2014’s hottest technology – 3D-printing – users can create a headset that simulates the … Read more