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Lenovo UK Names New Channel Head

Andy Bass Lenovo

Lenovo has hired Andy Bass as the company’s new director of channel and SMB in the UK and Ireland. Bass is set to take over the role from 1st September, having spent the last 10 months at CMS Distribution. He will replace Darren Phelps, who left Lenovo earlier this year (Lenovo Parts Company with UK … Read more

IHS Focuses on HD at FPD Conference

IHS will hold its annual US FPD conference at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Santa Clara, California on 14th and 15th September this year. This year’s event will focus on the latest trends in high-definition technology. As well as presentations on topics ranging from mobile displays to digital signage, participants will include representatives from companies … Read more

IHS US FPD 2015 Conference to Focus on HD Technologies

IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical information and insight, today announced the preliminary agenda for the company’s upcoming US FPD 2015 conference to be held at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara, California from September 14 – 15, 2015. Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, the conference will showcase flat panel display (FPD) technologies … Read more

Christie Claims First UST Laser Projector

Christie has introduced its ‘Captiva’ series – apparently the world’s first solid-state projectors with an ultra-short throw ratio and more than 3,000 lumens of brightness. First seen at Infocomm this year, the DHD400S (1920 x 1080) and DUW3505 (1920 x 720) are installation projectors, for medium and large venues. Because they use a laser-phosphor light … Read more

Gartner Says Worldwide Smartphone Sales Recorded Slowest Growth Rate Since 2013

Gartner, Inc. said worldwide smartphone sales recorded the slowest growth rate since 2013 in the second quarter of 2015. Worldwide sales of smartphones to end users totaled 330 million units, an increase of 13.5 percent over the same period in 2014 (see Table 1). “While demand for lower-cost 3G and 4G smartphones continued to drive … Read more

Siggraph 2015 Roundup 009

KIST hand gesture recognition softwareThe Korean Institute of Science and Technology‘s (KIST) Imaging Media Research Centre was showing off its latest generation of hand gesture recognition. This used a 3D sculpting system to create high quality 3D sculptures. The research work included development of a hand gesture library, and screen user interface. The core technology … Read more

Computer Vision With SMI

Epson’s AR Glasses at Siggraph with integrated eye-tracking from SMI. Note the (rather) large brick required to process the data. It’s fine for industry but the company will have to migrate this to a much smaller package for commercial applicationsWe visited SensoMotion Instruments (SMI), a German company with a focus on providing its eye-tracking platform … Read more

Empowerment Informatics 007

“Childhood” simulation display VR creates the child’s view of the world, from Augmented Human Technologies Design group at U of Tsukuba JapanOn the application side, one of the more unique discoveries at the show was the University of Tsukuba, Japan, PhD programme in Empowerment Informatics. The group showed ‘Childhood’, an augmented childhood experience. With the … Read more

Qualcomm Has a Mixed Reality Engine

Mattel’s new version of Viewmaster will crack open to allow a smart phone to be put inside and viewed in stereo 3D with a unique twist, support for Vuforia object recognition, triggering events by simply pointing to the circular cards shownQualcomm’s Connected Experiences group was also at Siggraph, with a booth showing off a new … Read more

New in Digital Projection – High Contrast HDR

MTT showed its High Contrast HDR projection prototype at Siggraph that truly was an impressive demonstration, The group said the technology is about 18 months out and works with existing projector heads.On the digital projection front, along with the breaking news of the Barco dual laser (DP4K60L) soft launch (Getting Totally Immersed in Ford’s Booth), … Read more

Nvidia ‘Fills in Gaps’ in TV Industry

We found a display milestone in the Nvidia booth, where the chip company is first to support 4k resolution content at 60fps in its new Shield Android TV Box (and offering so much more to the game community). This was announced last May and covered in our Display Daily articles. At Siggraph, Nvidia said that … Read more

VR Village is a Success

This was year one for the VR Village at Siggraph, but based on attendance and interest level you can bet your boot they will be back in 2016New milestones were demonstrated at Siggraph, including ‘Hologram’ from NYU. This is a fully immersive nomadic VR interaction with real-time position tracking, using only the processing power of … Read more