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Augmented Reality Leader Atheer Unveils AiR™ Glasses and AiR™ Enterprise Suite to Transform the Way Deskless Professionals Work and Collaborate

Atheer, the company pioneering the new AiR™ (Augmented interactive Reality™) computing platform today unveiled AiR Glasses, the world’s most interactive 3D smart glasses and the AiR Enterprise Suite, a cloud-based collaboration and task flow interaction solution for Fortune 1000 companies. Atheer AiR Glasses allow wearers to see critical work information right in their field-of-view and … Read more

ABI Research Shows Augmented Reality on the Rise with Total Market Worth to Reach $100 Billion by 2020

Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) continue to be hot topics in the technology industry. While VR continues to make waves in the press, AR will prove to be the bigger market in time, projected to reach approximately US$100 billion in total market worth by 2020, according to the latest market study by ABI … Read more

Where Does SkyQ Leave HFR?

This week’s issue got me thinking about developments in TV. I was particularly interested in the Sky announcement and I confess that is partly because I am a customer of Sky. Sky is incredibly good at getting UK (and increasingly German and Italian consumers) to dig deep for their TV services. Although I pay less … Read more

UniPixel Receives Initial Mass Production Order from Japanese PC Manufacturer

UniPixel, Inc., a provider of Performance Engineered Films™ to the touchscreen and flexible electronics markets, announced today the receipt of an initial mass production order from a leading PC manufacturing company based in Japan for a 10-inch tablet product. UniPixel expects the initial delivery of XTouch sensors to this new customer to occur in the … Read more

Fujitsu Wants “More Focused” Distribution

Fujitsu’s new UK sales director has said that the company needs to be “more focused” with its distribution strategy. Kevin Matthews said that Fujitsu currently has five distributors in the UK (Ingram Micro, Tech Data, Exertis, Arrows and Entatech), and may need to evaluate the lineup. He added, “[I]t’s too early to say whether we … Read more

Apple Looks For Second Watch Builder

Apple Daily, a Chinese source, says that Apple is seeking a second OEM to assemble the second-generation Apple Watch. The company is apparently talking to Foxconn, Inventec and Wistron, who would join current manufacturer Quanta. Quanta’s profit from the Watch has been lower than expected, says the report, which is a concern for potential new … Read more

LG to Compete With Apple Pay

Left-to-right: Wi Sung-ho, CEO of Shinhan Card; Juno Cho, president and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Company and Kim Duk-soo, CEO of KB Kookmin CardLG has launched its own mobile payment service, to compete with Apple Pay and Samsung Pay. The originally-named LG Pay is the result of work with two Korean credit card companies … Read more

LG Display Plans OLED Investment

Korea’s Digital Times says that LG Display plans to invest $4.2 billion in new OLED facilities, to meet expected market demand from 2017 onwards. The new ‘P10’ fab will be located in Paju, South Korea. Discussions will be held later this month to finalise the decision, as well as to decide the exact substrate size … Read more

Augmented Reality Will Outgrow VR

Nintendo’s proposed ‘Pokémon Go’ game is a perfect example of mobile AR. ABI Research has forecast that augmented reality will prove to be a larger market than virtual reality in time. The firm projects that the AR market will be worth $100 billion by 2020. A new report (http://tinyurl.com/pb64h6k) predicts that 21 million smart glass … Read more