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ISE Sets New Record – and Beats It!

ISE 2016 ran from the 9th – 12th February in Amsterdam’s RAI exhibition centre: the first four-day show in in the event’s history. Although we heard differing reasons for the change (too much to see, health risk, Amsterdam becoming overcrowded…), we can say that it was definitely a positive one. Registered attendees rose 10.7% YoY, … Read more

Toshiba Uses VR to Ease MRI Anxiety

Toshiba Corporation and Toshiba Medical Systems are showcasing a virtual reality solution for the use in MRI machines. Most MRI systems include a narrow tunnel where the user’s head goes leading to anxiety in some patients. The new system adds a projection system to the MRI system and uses a projection screen in conjunction with … Read more

Aptovision Developing Plethora 10Gb End-Point Chip

We have reported on Aptovision and its BlueRiver video over IP technology nine times since last year’s ISE show (in brief, if you’ve missed it, the technology uses proprietary technology to deliver video from HDMI sources over ethernet in a low-latency, uncompressed mode to allow the use of relatively low cost 10Gb ethernet switches, rather … Read more

Mitsubishi’s ‘Aerial Display’ Projects Large Images in Mid-air

At its annual R&D Open House event in Japan, Mitsubishi presented an ‘aerial display’ that is able to project images measuring up to 56″ diagonally in mid-air. Mitsubishi describes the two key components of the technology as a beam splitter and a retro-reflective sheet. The former divides incoming light into reflected and transmitted light; the … Read more

Forth Dimension Displays to Present a Paper

Forth Dimension Displays has announced it will present a paper at this year’s Electronic Displays Conference. The event will be held in Nuremberg, Germany from the 24th – 25th February. The paper is entitled ‘2K Electronic View Finder based on QXGA Microdisplay’ in the microdisplays session. It will discuss the use of an electronic viewfinder … Read more

FPD Equipment Spend is Rising

Spending on FPD equipment will reach $11.2 billion this year, says IHS, its highest level since 2011. Two trends are driving the growth: a rush to expand high volumes of flexible AMOLED panels, for smartphone applications, in South Korea; and panel makers building new factories in China, to produce a variety of FPD panel sizes … Read more

Why the Future of Virtual Reality Isn’t Movies or Video Games

New Frontier presented almost five times as many virtual reality works at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival as it did at the 2014 show according to an interesting article from Indiewire. Viewing expanded to multiple venues, and two formats dominated: 360° video and game environments. 360° video is simply that: a fixed perspective, which the … Read more

Asahi Glass Result 05/02/2016

Asahi Glass reported full year 2015 net profit of 42.9 billion Yen ($375 million), up 105% YoY, from 15.9 Yen ($139 million). Turnover was reported at 1.32 trillion Yen ($10.7 billion), down slightly by 1.6% YoY from 1.35 trillion Yen ($11.8 billion). Turnover was dragged down by lower display sales. with the overall electronics segment … Read more

Record-Breaking Display Coming to Bristol

The Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee will see a new large-format LED display installed this year, using LEDs from DigiLED. It is DigiLED’s largest-ever project, consisting of four main screen surfaces measuring 19.2m x 9m. The screens use DigiLED’s Toura6 (6.6mm) product, with a total resolution of 11520 x 1350. The installation, by integrator GoVision … Read more