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New Intel-Powered Retail Experiences to Hit Stores This Year

Intel Corporation today unveiled a range of technological innovations that are driving new retail experiences for consumers and enabling retailers to better understand and connect with customers. The solutions feature popular brands including Boulanger*, Brooks Brothers*, Coop*, Levi Strauss & Co.*, and Nordstrom*. The company also announced the Intel® Retail Sensor Platform, the first vertical … Read more

Durable Touchscreens Withstand Slot Machine Traditions for Global Monitor

The ritual of kissing your diamond ring and touching it to the display before you play is thought to bring luck to slot machine players in some countries – but doesn’t do much for the touchscreens on the games. Global Monitor, Mexico’s leading specialist supplier of screens to the casino game cabinet industry, has standardised … Read more

Displaydata Announces Availability of New Fully Graphic, Three-Color Electronic Shelf Label (ESL) Sizes

Displaydata, the world’s number one supplier of three-color Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs), today announced the launch of its new three-color (black, paper white and red) Chroma 16 and 74 ESLs, in addition to the new Aura 29 BLE display with Dynamic Central, the company’s enterprise-wide remote manage suite. Displaydata will demo its new solutions in … Read more

More than 200 Million Virtual Reality Head-Mounted Displays to be Sold by 2020, According to Tractica

While virtual reality (VR) is not a new technology in concept and can trace its origins back to the 1950s, the past few years have witnessed a golden era of investment and product development in the sector, and highly-capable head-mounted displays (HMDs) are now on the verge of commercial deployment. VR offerings from Oculus, HTC, … Read more

Smart Simplifies with “Classroom as a Service”

First, we heard that the firm has made a significant new initiative in the way it offers its products and services to the market. New at the show is a special “Classroom as a Service” financial package, which offers a complete package of a big display, client devices (chromebooks), software, installation and three days of … Read more

HP Updates Sprout for Professionals

HP was in the area that was centred around the Intel booth (and also included Dell and Lenovo) and was showing software and clients and had news about the Sprout. The original Sprout product was designed and marketed as a home/consumer product. However, at the show, they were positioning a new version, the Sprout Pro, … Read more

CES and The Upside of VR

Among the hottest topics at this year’s CES was virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR for short.) The technology has received much ink of late, especially for an aging technology that dates back at least to 1991 with a Sega VR headset and perhaps much earlier, when you consider pioneers like James Lanier of … Read more

Is Educational VR Content Ready for Prime Time?

I was delighted by reading TI Fellow Karl Guttag’s recent piece on Display Daily entitled VR and AR Head Mounted Displays – Sorry, but there is no Santa Claus. In this remarkable piece, Guttag brings the reader back down to earth on the readiness of VR and AR technologies for the marketplace based on the … Read more