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Holo-Gauze Creates ‘augmented reality’ Installation for Team Speedo Launch

Holo-Gauze, the renowned 3D display solution for hologram effects, has created a 20x9metre installation for an augmented reality style launch of Team Speedo, the swimwear and swim accessory manufacturer’s line-up of 200 super star swimmers from the UK, US, France and Spain. The New York launch brought together 24 Team Speedo athletes to promote Speedo’s … Read more

Christie highlights at Prolight+Sound 2016: From super-bright laser phosphor projection to the latest Pandoras Box

Visitors to the Christie® booth at the Prolight+Sound show in Frankfurt, Germany April 5-8 will experience several new solutions for entertainment, integrated systems and content creation from the leader in visual display technology. 12,500 lumen laser phosphor projection Christie continues to supply long-lasting projectors with its HS Series, which tests at 12,500 centre lumens. The … Read more

Samsung and de GRISOGONO Make Baselworld Tick to Luxury Smart Time

Samsung Electronics announced their latest fashion collaboration with the renowned and glamorous jewelry and watchmaker, de GRISOGONO. The two iconic brands have come together to co-create the Samsung Gear S2 by de GRISOGONO – a limited-edition jewelry watch designed and sculpted in gold and precious jewels, boasting Samsung’s innovative Gear S2 technology. The partnership between … Read more

New Test Content Available for HDR Tone Mapping Evaluation

New HDR content clips

With the advent of High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Wide Color Gamut (WCG) displays, a new need to do conversions of color volume and gray scale has arrived. That is because there will be an increasing variety of content graded in various color gamuts and dynamic ranges (range or black to white levels) as well … Read more

Wearables Battle the Hype Cycle at WTS 2016

This was our first year attending the Wearable Technology Show in London’s ExCel Centre, which has been running since 2014. Already, the event is beginning to branch out to cover more areas, such as the IoT. Gartner’s well-known technology Hype Cycle lists five stages of a product’s development: Technology Trigger; Peak of Inflated Expectations; Trough … Read more

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 11

A company called Arovia showed a fold-out screen at South by Southwest last week. No, not a foldable OLED: a rear-projection display and projector. The Spontaneous Pop-Up Display (SPUD) is about the size of an Apple TV box when folded. Unfolding it turns it into a 24″ display, which can receive content through HDMI or … Read more

RNIB Rewards Samsung for Accessible TVs

The UK’s Royal National Institute of Blind People has presented Samsung Electronics with an Inclusive Society Award; this recognises the firm’s work in making its smart TVs accessible for blind and partially-sighted people. The RNIB worked with Samsung on the development of its smart TVs, which have text-to-speech and zoom functionality, as well as a … Read more

Value Electronics Looks for King of UHD

LG’s OLED TV won the shootout in 2015Value Electronics in the USA will host its annual TV shootout event at CE Week in New York City. The shootout (now in its 13th year) will take place on the 22nd and 23rd June, and aims to crown the ‘King of UHD TV’. Although the list is … Read more

Speedo Launches Team Speedo With Holo-Gauze AR

Holotronica, creator of a holography/projection screen technology called Holo-Gauze, created a 20m x 9m augmented reality installation for the launch of Team Speedo in New York. A film charting the success of 24 Team Speedo athletes was shown on the Holo-Gauze screen, with the athletes were hidden behind the screen. Each athlete was revealed at … Read more

Christie Brings HS to Frankfurt

Christie has revealed the products that it will showcase at Prolight+Sound 2016 (5th – 8th April, Frankfurt). The company’s new HS Series; Boxer models (including the 2K20, 2K25 and 2K30); Velvet LED tiles; and Pandora’s Box v5.9 software will be demonstrated. ID Tag Tracking, a way to auto-follow people on-stage or create trackable stage props … Read more