Visionect’s Joan Takes Red Dot
A meeting room scheduling solution called Joan, by Visionect, has won a Red Dot design award for Best Product Design. The Joan Meeting Room Assistant is a room booking device using an E Ink display
Acer Brings Laser to Gaming
Acer showed off an ultra-short throw laser DLP projector for gaming at CES 2016, where the product – the Predator Z850 – was named as an Innovation Award Honoree. Acer is now bringing it to market. The Z850 can throw up to 120″ images from 0.46m, and has an ultra-wide resolution of 1920 x 720 … Read more
Foxconn Result 31/03/2016
Foxconn reported 2015 net profit of NT$164.3 billion ($5 billion). Turnover was NT$4.4 trillion (US$136.4 billion). For the first two months of 2016, turnover was NT$618.3 billion ($18.8 billion), down 8.55% YoY.
ABI Research Expects Tablet Market to Sink Below 140 Million Shipments in 2021
Tablet shipment volumes are tumbling, with ABI Research, the leader in transformative technology innovation market intelligence, attributing the general decline over the past two years to two culprits. Demand for branded tablets in advanced market economies is decreasing due to saturation, slow replacement cycles, greater influence of business purchases, and substitution. China and other Asian … Read more
Deluxe Delivers UHD Over Public Internet
Deluxe Entertainment Services Group says that its MediaCloud platform has been used to broadcast live UltraHD video, at 50fps, between Europe and North America. The broadcast used the public internet and was delivered using Deluxe’s own (software-based) Broadcast Delivery Network. The broadcast signal (encoded with HEVC at 30 fps) leaves a Deluxe MediaCloud facility in … Read more
Experience Your Future Now in an HDBaseT World
The HDBaseT Alliance, the cross-industry group tasked with promoting and advancing HDBaseT technology, is once again teaming with Almo Professional A/V at the award-winning E4 AV Tour, coming to Washington DC on April 6 and Atlanta, GA on April 27, to train a new batch of HDBaseT Expert Installers. The HDBaseT Installer Expert Program is … Read more
LG Taps Popular Jason Statham to Star in First TV commercial for G5
Jason Statham, the popular high-flying, high-octane star of action movies such The Transporter and The Expendables series, will star in LG Electronics’ latest TV spot for its revolutionary G5 modular smartphone. Fredrik Bond, the creative, passionate filmmaker who has directed many global campaigns for well-known multinational brands, will be behind the camera. LG’s newest commercial … Read more
Foxconn Signs Sharp Deal At Last
Foxconn and Sharp have agreed a deal, which will see the Taiwanese firm acquire 66% of the Japanese company. The deal has been valued at ¥389 billion ($3.5 billion) – ¥100 billion ($889 million) less than Foxconn’s (reported) original offer. The total price includes the purchase of both common shares worth ¥289 billion and preferred … Read more
Qualcomm Will NOT Produce a Headset
It had been reported (but not by us) that Qualcomm was building a VR headset, following a showing of a prototype at the Game Developers Conference in March. This is not the case: Qualcomm has confirmed that it is not making a head-mounted display (HMD), and does not intend to. The model on show was … Read more
Sulon Uses OLED for Wireless HMD
AMD introduced a prototype of Sulon’s wireless HMD (Sulon Shows Cortex AR/VR Headset) at a private event at the Game Developers Conference last month, which we were alerted to be our friend Jon Peddie. Although we have seen news about the headset before, this was the first time that it had been shown to the … Read more
Pelé Not Happy With Samsung
Brazilian footballer Pelé is suing Samsung, after claiming the firm improperly used a lookalike in an advertisement for UltraHD TVs, which ran in the New York Times without his permission. Pelé is claiming at least $30 million (£21 million), according to legal papers lodged wwith the US District Court in Chicago.
Could PS VR be Made PC Compatible?
There is a “possibility” that Sony will make its Playstation VR headset compatible with PCs, not just the Playstation 4 console. The news comes from a Nikkei interview with Sony EVP Masayasu Ito, translated by Eurogamer. He said, “The possibility exists since the PlayStation 4 shares many of its parts with the PC”. The PSVR … Read more
