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Quad/Graphics has included a VR viewer (the Quad Virtual Reality Viewer, or QVR) in about 500,000 select copies of the 2016 Sportswear Illustrated swimsuit issue. The viewer can be used to watch the magazine’s first-ever VR videos.
Data traffic on mobile networks will reach 367 exabytes – that’s 367×10^18 bytes or 367 billion gigabytes – in 2020, up from 44 exabytes in 2015, according to Cisco Systems’ recently released Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast, 2015-2020. A lot of that is video, which accounted for 55% of all mobile data … Read more
Last year Microsoft launched a new accessory (Microsoft Works With Miracast) that allowed users to wirelessly display anything from a Miracast-enabled device. The new adaptor is identical, but latency has been reduced. Customers in the US and Canada can pre-order the new version for $50, beginning on the 1st March.
Researcher’s from Queen’s University (Canada) have developed a prototype flexible OLED display using ‘active haptic feedback’ – that is, flexing – for control. The 6″ display is a full-colour unit (1280 x 720) from LG Display. It is mounted on a flexible substrate, which extends 5cm beyond the screen to the left and right. These … Read more
At its European Forum (Samsung Highlights CES Products in Monaco), Samsung showed off its newest LCD TVs, including the SUHD sets. These had some minor differences to the models shown at CES last month (Samsung Uses LED in Modular TV Concept). The most significant change was made to the curved KS9500 SUHD TV. The US … Read more
Germany’s SR System-Elektronik has developed and tested a 47″ outdoor display. Designed to shrug off both heat and cold, the screen’s enclosure is IP65-compliant and features a UV filter. Ventilation was developed in-house.
Best Buy has already started selling the new Blu-ray UltraHD disc format movies, several weeks before the scheduled date in March. CNET claims to have seen the following titles in Best Buy: Chappie, The Martian, Fantastic Four, Exodus: Gods and Kings, and The Maze Runner. All the movies come with HDR and retail at a … Read more
Sony has released a universal remote that uses an electronic paper display and can show buttons chosen by the user. The remote is based on a concept called “Huis Remote Controller Huis-100RC.” ¥24.35 million ($3.7 million) was raised for the development of the control, which has already been delivered to product supporters.
Writing about augmented and virtual reality is kind of fun, as it describes a new technology that is developing incredibly fast, where nobody knows what will happen each day. There’s anticipation before the computer is warmed up and the first news from development companies starts trickling in. We have to look at these technology fields … Read more
Meta has been making AR hardware for quite some time now. They are in this market for an astounding two and a half years (based on the successful Kickstarter campaign closing) as an augmented reality headset maker. Meanwhile the firm has closed a more substantial funding of $23 million in its Series A round of … Read more
On the evening before the start of the main event, ISE kicked off with a panel session entitled “IT in AV: Interconnecting for Smart Solutions”. There were five panelists and the session was moderated by David Rowan of Wired (UK) magazine. Mike Blackburn, the man behind ISE, started by saying that this year sees the … Read more
InFocus was showing a new 65″ FullHD procap touch system that uses the InFocus “Edge” design and using Cima Nanotech technology (which is not surprising given the JV between Foxconn and Cima and the Foxconn’s interest in InFocus). The INF6502WB will be available in early Q2 with pricing to be decided. Also on display was … Read more
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