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In a seminar at the Canon EXPO, Embraer’s Paulo Pires described the mixed reality market and its use in aircraft design and simulation. They have been using Canon mixed reality systems and are seeing benefits, as will be described. In his presentation, Pires first gave a little history of Enbraer. It is a Brazilian company … Read more
IDC’s Ramon Llamas kicked off a special seminar session by defining mixed reality as the combination of augmented reality (virtual objects overlaid on a view of the real world), augmented virtuality (interaction with an AR environment) and virtual reality (completely immersed in video or CG content). However, in his slide showing the mixed reality landscape, … Read more
Canon has developed an augmented reality headset that they refer to as mixed reality. The currently available headset, the HMA-1, uses two OLED panels for a total resolution of 2560×1024 (dual SXGA). There are also two VGA resolution cameras built-in. There appear to be two main ways to create a mixed reality solution. One is … Read more
M-RAM stands for Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory. It is non-volatile memory, like Flash memory and uses magnetic elements like hard drives. Now, after 20 years of development, the first products are coming to market. Canon does not make the memory – they make the equipment to manufacture the memory. Companies like Arizon and Everspin offer … Read more
Canon offers two reference displays at 24 inches (DP-V2410) and 30 inches (DP-V3010). Both offer DCI-4K resolution 4096×2160) and a wide color gamut (essentially P3, not 2020). Both are targeted at broadcast and cinema production as well as medical applications. Both will apparently be offered in 200 and 2000 cd/m² versions and both support HDR … Read more
At InfoComm, Canon was showing a 4K projector but with no information available for the media. At the Canon Expo, it was in plain sight and powering several demos. In fact, according to Canon B2B Marketing manager, Scott Burkhardt, there are only 5 working units and they were all in New York being put to … Read more
Canon held their special EXPO in the Javits Center in New York last week. Over 9,000 people attended the cavernous exhibit. There were so many different aspects of Canon on display, it was a real tour de force. The event is held once every five years and is a showcase for current and future products … Read more
IBC closed with record attendance of 55,128 delegates and 1,800 companies. There were 250 speakers in many sessions, panels and keynotes and the exhibition seems to be on a positive curve. (although we found that signage and wayfinding wasn’t very good on the show floor, only offset by quite a clever app that could help … Read more
Despite Sky Deutschland initially recommending that its shareholders reject the deal, the company has now been fully acquired by BSkyB (‘Sky’) (EU Approves BSkyB Deal). Sky completed its buyout of Sky Deutschland’s remaining shares (approximately 4%) on the 15th September. The company is now due to be delisted from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The Sky … Read more
AV technology pioneer Peerless-AV® has signed a distribution agreement with FollowMe® GmbH. With immediate effect, the specialist distributor is able to offer the 42?, 47? and 55? Xtreme™ fully-sealed Outdoor Displays from Peerless-AV to resellers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. With FollowMe as a partner, Peerless-AV demonstrates its commitment to channel expansion in Europe. The … Read more
Peerless-AV has taken on FollowMe GmbH as a distributor in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. FollowMe will offer Peerless-AV’s 42″, 47″ and 55″ ‘Xtreme’ outdoor displays to its customers.
Regular readers might know that I quite enjoy my gaming. I’ve spent many nights on my PC, crossing gaps, beating down baddies and using improbably well-placed solutions to solve puzzles. At the end of a recent session, I had a pop-up appear from Steam, asking me to take part in a short survey. Steam, of … Read more
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