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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
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
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
More and more investment is taking place in the virtual reality space, triggered by Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus VR for $2 billion. In total, $800 million was invested in VR last year – $540 million of which went to Google-backed Magic Leap, alone. The remainder went to hardware makers. In the first half of 2015, … Read more
FlexEnable and CPT manufactured a flexible, colour AMOLED display back in June (CPT-FlexEnable Partnership Marks Flexible Mass-Production), and have now published a video of it in action. Watch it below or visit http://tinyurl.com/q6tjc45.
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
John Lewis is currently showing a VR experience at its Oxford Street store in London. The company is stocking the Freefly VR headset exclusively for the next four weeks, and is demonstrating it to customers.
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
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
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
As a follow on to its Cardboard viewer and associated Cardboard app, Google has developed, and is now offering, a new virtual reality content creation tool for Android smartphones. Having taken about a year to develop, it is called Cardboard Camera. The app uses computational photography and computer vision techniques to produce a 3D-like experience … Read more
One of the little secrets of the display, television and cinema industries is the “Red, Green, Blue” primary colors – aren’t. Red isn’t “Red,” it’s reddish-orange. More importantly, green isn’t “Green,” it’s yellowish-green. Only blue is what a color specialist would call “Blue.” All color specifications for electronic entertainment have used a three color primary … Read more
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