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Apple has won a patent dispute against Samsung in the USA. The Korean company will be forced to pay $548 million, as part of the $1 billion settlement in damages that Apple was awarded in 2012 (Apple Wins Patent Battle, Samsung to Pay $1 Billion, Display Monitor Vol 19 No 35). However, Samsung has reserved … Read more
Canon was at I/ITSEC 2015, but was not really disclosing much. They had a theater where they were showing a demo of their laser phosphor projector, but they did not want to let us have a look. Apparently, it is a laser phosphor model with 4K resolution. The demo was a blend of two of … Read more
Last year at I/ITSEC, General Dynamic was just starting to develop a VR application to help with fire fighter training, especially in military and commercial applications. This year, they showed the progress they have made. Over the year, the team has been working on adding a number of features and modules to the simulation and … Read more
HMD developer Sensics was at I/ITSEC to show off its high performance HMD but also to facilitate discussions about OSVR – their joint venture with game developer, Razor. OSVR stands for Open Source Virtual Reality and the idea is to create a platform of interfaces that are open source, i.e. non-proprietary or royalty-bearing, that allows … Read more
The training of Joint Terminal Attack Controllers, JTACs, is a major initiative in the US military as well as other allied militaries. JTACs coordinate close air support and are vital for making sure bombs are dropped on enemy combatants and not civilians or friendly forces. Therefore, high level training is needed. As noted in the … Read more
Over the last year, Barco has separated its defense, medical, training and simulation business, selling these businesses to Esterline. That means that Barco returns to its roots as a supplier of display solutions, leaving others to the integration task. As a result, Barco and Esterline were at I/ITSEC 2015 with separate booths. There were no … Read more
Oculus was at I/ITSEC to show offs the new GearVR from Samsung (with support from Oculus) and the new Rift headset that will be launched by Oculus in Q1’16. The exact date has not been set, nor the pricing, however. We got a chance to try the new Oculus headset. At CES they called this … Read more
SA Photonics is one of the suppliers of very high quality head mounted displays – with monocular and binocular, see through and occlusive types. They offer some of the best image quality using OLEDs and great optics – but they are expensive. Nevertheless, there remains a dedicated customer base for these products. At I/ITSEC 2015, … Read more
Epson used I/ITSEC 2015 to show offs its line of augmented reality glasses – and their applications for training and simulation. Last June, the company released an industrialized version of its consumer AR glasses called the Moverio Pro BT-2000. It features a similar optical engine as the consumer version (twin 960×540 resolution LCDs projected onto … Read more
Digital Projection was at I/ITSEC to show off its Insight 4K projectors with laser phosphor sources (Digital Projection Wows CEDIA with Insight 4K Projectors) as well as its M-Vision series with LED source. But it also showed a modified version of the Insight 4K Laser in a 4:3 aspect ratio. This offered a resolution of … Read more
Adding night vision goggle (NVG) capability to a projector is a fairly big deal. Typically, this means adding Infrared LEDs to provide the IR light output needed to stimulate the NVGs. But the NVG image typically is delivered to the projector from the image generator (IG) as a separate channel of data. That means the … Read more
New for I/ITSEC 2015 is the Sony VPL-GTZ280 projector – a 4K model with a laser-phosphor source that is purpose-built for the simulation market. It should ship in February 2016. It will be offered in two lumen levels: 2000 and 5000 lumens. The base 2000 lumen model will sell for $43K MSRP with lenses running … Read more
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