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Philips Drive Lighting and Displays Together

Philips Lighting, with several recent press releases, is making it plain that the firm plans to remain an innovator in developing new higher value added solid state lighting applications. Philips’ press releases span a collaboration with Xiaomi to launch a network connected Desk lamp, to an expansion of its collaboration on connected home lighting to … Read more

More Details on Barco’s Laser Phosphor Cinema Projectors

Barco DP2K 20CLP

RGB laser projectors are the top of the pyramid in terms of image performance. These are being slated to the largest flagship venues today. But laser-phosphor based models are no poised to offer a new solution for mainstream theaters as well. Even though most exhibitors have recently upgraded to digital cinema platforms, laser phosphor solutions … Read more

Christie is on the Light Sight

Christie was taken on to provide the red carpet experience at the premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens on the 14th December. Christie pre-configured and staged much of the equipment in its California HQ ahead of time. Coolux Pandoras Box media servers were used to drive many displays, including 388 MicroTiles, forming a backdrop … Read more

AOC shows 160 Hz curved gaming monitor, Quantum Dot display and next-gen 4K monitor in Las Vegas

From 6 to 9 January 2016, display specialist AOC presents a full range of its newest display innovations at CES 2016 in Las Vegas: Visitors will find a new curved gaming model, a 4K display with HDMI 2.0, colourful images powered by Quantum Dot and unique designs at the booth. Immersive gamingBe drawn into an … Read more

Virtual Reality Leader Legend VR Announces Strategic Partnership with Littlstar

Industry-leading 3D Conversion, VFX and Virtual Reality studio Legend VR announced today its partnership with the global leader in 360-degree content distribution, Littlstar, to build the next generation of production and post-production tools for VR. The collaboration will set new standards for the creation of cinematic VR, bringing Legend’s award-winning, real-time 3D pipeline for designing … Read more

Avegant Announces Availability of Glyph

Avegant today announced the availability of its flagship product, the Glyph. Designed with lightweight portability, rich audio and incredibly precise video, the Glyph features an innovative yet familiar design. The Glyph resembles a pair of premium headphones that can also be worn over your eyes to reveal a screen-less display directly inside the headband. Avegant … Read more

Jaunt Studios and RYOT Announce Production Deal

Jaunt Studios, the leading producer and publisher of fully-immersive cinematic virtual reality experiences, and RYOT, the leading virtual reality production studio for docu-style storytelling, today announced a new production deal to produce the first documentary series created in immersive virtual reality. Filmed and directed by award-winning filmmaker and RYOT co-founder David Darg, Holy Land is … Read more

Letv to Make Highly Anticipated Debut at CES

For the first time ever, Letv, the leading global technology company that converges culture, content, innovation, lifestyle and entertainment, will showcase its line-up of high-style, high-tech products at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Jan. 5 through 9. CES attendees will be the first in the U.S. to lay eyes on Letv’s … Read more

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