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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

Eizo Cares About Colour

Eizo’s newest 24.1″ ColorEdge monitors are the CG2420 and CS2420, featuring slim bezels (39% smaller than predecessors’), a carrying handle and Eizo’s own ColorNavigator 6 software. ColorNavigator is intended for users requiring a variety of calibration functionality. Users can select preset target values for photography, printing and web design. Alternatively, they can set their own … Read more

Liberty and Vodafone (Finally) Go Ahead

After some on/off speculation (Vodafone Mulling Liberty Global Acquisition and Liberty/Vodafone Deal Off the Table), Liberty Global and Vodafone have agreed to merge their operations in the Netherlands. The merger will create a joint venture with a 50% stake for both companies. It is said that the new company will be a ‘national unified communications … Read more