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Jaunt Brings Middle East to VR

VR content producer Jaunt Studios is working with Ryot, a VR production studio, to produce a documentary series in – you guessed it – VR. Holy Land will be filmed and directed by David Darq, as a five-part series taking viewers to the Middle East to observe the confluence of Judiasm, Islam and Christianity. The … Read more

UK Footfall Trends Down in December

Ipsos Retail Performance’s Retail Traffic Index (RTI) shows that shopping footfall in the UK fell 2.6% last week (beginning 6th December), compared to last year. Ipsos believes that 2015 will be a ‘muted’ Christmas for the UK high street. December began slowly, but store traffic recovered somewhat on the 6th December week. Christmas shopping trips … Read more

Updating Agriculture for the 21st Century

Farmers Edge is a North American company that exhibits at trade shows across Canada and the USA. The company recently took on Advance Pro, of Canada, to design a modular and portable AV solution that could bring impact to these shows. Advance Pro chose to create a portable video wall using 12 NEC monitors, mounted … Read more

Iiyama’s Gold Phoenix Takes Flight

Another of Iiyama’s ‘bird of prey’ gaming monitors has been revealed, joining the Red Eagle (Iiyama is Top of the Food Chain) and Black Hawk (Hunt in the Dark With Iiyama): the slightly-more-friendly-sounding Gold Phoenix. Larger than the Eagle or Hawk monitors, the 28″ GB2888UHSU is an UltraHD display with AMD’s Freesync technology. Freesync is … Read more

Toshiba is Ready for Windows 10

Toshiba’s new Satellite notebook is the P50-C-18N: a dedicated Windows 10 model. The 15.6″ product features microphones and a dedicated Cortana button. A Core i7 Skylake processor from Intel runs Windows 10 Home, with a 2.5GHz clock speed – with the ability to boost it to 3.1GHz. 8GB of RAM are installed, and the machine … Read more

50% of Consumers Will Use Mobile Payments by 2018

Mobile payments are gaining traction in developed countries, says Gartner; half of consumers in mature markets are expected to use smartphones or wearables for mobile payments by 2018. The trend is especially prominent in North America, Japan and some countries in Western Europe. There are three types of mobile payment systems available today: smartphone/wearable-based; branded … Read more

Bloomberg: Apple Building Screens at ‘Secret’ Lab

Apple has opened its own display division to develop new screens – at least, according to Bloomberg. People with knowledge of the facility, which is based on Longtan, Taiwan, say that ‘at least’ 50 engineers and other workers are employed there. They are creating new screens for devices including the iPhone and iPad, with and … Read more

US Navy Announces BEMR Lab for the Use of Mixed Reality Technology

The military is always good for some interesting twist on new technology, and this is the case with latest news from the US Navy Research Lab (NRL) which announced a new initiative, the BEMR (Battlespace Exploitation of Mixed Reality) program. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) initiated this new program to introduce mixed … Read more