Samsung Still the World’s Largest Semiconductor Company
Despite a 10.8% decline in revenues, the Korean giant stayed on top. Growth favored Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, AMD, and MediaTek.
Smartphone Shipments Not Recovering Until 2024
After predicting a 2.8% recovery in 2023, IDC is now reducing its forecast to project a 1.1% decline in 2023 shipments to 1.19 billion units. 5G continues to grow and will account for 62% of smartphones shipped worldwide in 2023, rising to 83% by 2027. IDC believes that market momentum will continue to build around … Read more
VR/AR at FETC 2023
At the end of my conference session analysis of FETC 2023 last month, I left the reader with a tease about a surprising upsurge in AR and VR sessions. In this short piece, I will try to offer some sense-making about this unexpected development in the education conference world. For context, the ed-tech conference season … Read more
Will BOE Lose Apple’s iPhone 15 Business Because of Sanctions?
The Chinese display giant is facing problems with the yield of its panels.
Tired: VR; Wired: MR
No matter how you slice it, Meta is subsidizing every VR headset it sells to the tune of 4 to 6 times the revenue it generates. That’s so crazy that you have to think it is an act of genius that lesser mortals cannot comprehend. Or, if you are a hater, you could call it … Read more
The Future of Touch
A research team at UC Santa Barbara has discovered a new phenomenon that underlies emerging holographic haptic displays, and could lead to the creation of more compelling virtual reality experiences. The team’s findings are published in the journal Science Advances. Holographic haptic displays use phased arrays of ultrasound emitters to focus ultrasound in the air, allowing … Read more
Vuzix Reports 4Q and Full Year 2022 Results
Vuzix, the supplier of smart glasses and AR technologies and products, reported its fourth quarter and full year financial results for the year ended December 31, 2022. “In 2022, Vuzix made critical investments in staff, core technology and infrastructure to expand our capabilities and global footprint to meet the demand for our products, components and services,” … Read more
Sony Electronics Introduces 2023 Bravia XR TV Lineup
There are five new models in the 2023 Bravia XR TV Lineup: X95L and X93L Mini LED, X90L Full Array LED, A95L QD-OLED and A80L OLED. All models are equipped with features to provide consumers with an immersive experience for watching movies, streaming apps, gaming and more. They all have the updated Cognitive Processor XR, featuring the all new XR Clear Image on select models, which improves noise … Read more
Sharp/NEC Launches New 7,100 and 8,000 Lumens Professional Installation LCD Projectors
Sharp NEC Display Solutions announced the newest additions to its impressive professional installation laser projector lineup with the 7,100 lumens PV710UL and the 8,000 lumens PV800UL. The PV series is designed for higher education classrooms/lecture halls, museums, rental and staging, houses of worship, corporate conference rooms and more. Its LCD technology provides very bright, detailed … Read more
Piracy: Address the Problem, Provide a Better Option
Awhile back – quite a while – we spent frustrating days divorcing our cable bundle of hundreds of channels (we only watched a few, the rest were just “there.”). It wasn’t a messy divorce, just tough. We had begun moving to watching VOD – what we wanted, when we wanted, on the screen we wanted. Monthly … Read more
Ohio Leads Nation in VR Education
Prisms VR celebrated Ohio’s leadership in virtual reality (VR) education, at its first Prisms of Reality Conference in Marysville, Ohio. Leading the nation in scaling experiential learning, Ohio launched Prisms’ VR new world math learning design in fall 2021 to over 50+ school districts + 15,000 students; it’s the first state to drive VR adoption … Read more
UMC Introduces New 28eHV+ Platform for Wireless, VR/AR, and IoT Display Applications
United Microelectronics Corporation unveiled the 28eHV+ platform, its newest enhancement to its 28nm embedded high voltage (eHV) technology. Delivering greater power efficiency and premium visual quality, 28eHV+ is an ideal display driver solution to power next-generation displays used in smartphones, virtual and augmented reality devices, and IoT. Compared to the proven 28nm eHV process, UMC’s … Read more
