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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
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
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
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 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
Despite extensive media coverage, as many as two-thirds of US consumers are unaware of virtual reality as a technology, according to Horizon Media. Although awareness is low, more than a third (36%) of the 3,000 consumers surveyed by Horizon said that they were interested in owning a VR device. Excitement was higher than it was … Read more
Microsoft announced that it will implement HDR support in the DirectX 12 API at GDC 2016. A timescale was not provided or details of what will be included.
Notorious tipster Evan Blass has tweeted (@EVLeaks) that the upcoming HTC 10 smartphone will have what he terms a ‘Super LCD 5’ display, rather than AMOLED. The phone will also feature a 3,000mAh battery. Other leaks suggest a Snapdragon 820 processor, 4GB of RAM and 32GB of storage.
eMagin reported a Q4 net loss of $2.1 million, up 31% YoY from $1.6 million. Turnover was $6.7 million: flat on a YoY basis. For the full year 2015, net loss was $4.1 million, down 23% YoY from $5.3 million. Turnover was $25.1 million, down 2.3% YoY from $25.7 million.
LG Display and Bang & Olugfsen have entered into a strategic partnership to develop and produce an OLED TV, which will be launched in 2017. Through the agreement, B&O will achieve the technological capabilities and scale needed to improve its long-term profitability. The company will focus on its core competencies of acoustics and design, while … Read more
Iiyama will once again exhibit at the Digital Signage Summit Europe, which will take place in Munich from the 23rd – 24th June. The firm has not announced what it will show, but has said that some of the solutions will be procap B2B products.
Prolific rumour mill, Kotaku, claims that Sony is developing a Playstation 4 that can support UltraHD games. The ‘PS4.5’ may be a new device or a simple addon, and will include a new GPU to enable the higher resolutions. Analyst Comment Although Kotaku often misses the mark, in this case we’re hoping that it’s on … Read more
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