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Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founders of Google, announced this week a reorganisation of the company which will make Google a division of a much bigger company called Alphabet. Alphabet, the new parent company, will be run by Page and Brin as CEO and president respectively, and is mostly a collection of companies, the largest … Read more
A study by IDC (paid: http://tinyurl.com/q6q8twz) has found that retailers in Western Europe are increasingly moving towards in-store digital transformations, to gain a competitive edge. All top retailers in the region are currently evaluating how digital impacts them, and what their approach and strategy should be. Two areas are being prioritised: equipping sales assistants with … Read more
Taiwan’s main notebook ODMs reported sequential declines in sales for July, as they experienced a slowdown in notebook demand. Quanta Computer said sales were down 21.4% in July from June, to NT$83.6 billion ($2.6 billion). though this was 7.3% higher than July 2014. Total sales to date reached NT$539.8 billion ($16.7 billion), up 6.2% compared … Read more
The Virtual Reality Village opened for the first time at the Special Interest Group Graphics (SIGGRAPH for short) conference and Exhibition in Los Angeles. A VR Village highlight included a nomadic Virtual Reality system called “Holojam” from NYU. NYU Labs Nomadic Virtual Reality Space in SIGGRAPH 2015 VR Village, Source: Sechrist The demonstration showed a … Read more
Unlike many Taiwanese component makers, TPK Holding posted a healthy 36% month on month growth in sales in July, to NT$9.5 billion ($294.9 million), though this was 10.3% lower than July 2014. For the January to July period, TPK’s sales were down 8.4% from the same period of last year, at NT$62.2 billion ($1.9 billion).
Taiwan’s major chip companies reported strong sales in July, with Mediatek achieving monthly revenue which was the highest in four months. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) saw sales rise 35% sequentially and 24.7% year on year to NT$80.9 billion ($2.5 billion), bringing sales for the year so far to NT$508.4 billion ($15.8 billion), 28.3% higher than … Read more
Gordon Wetzstein, assistant professor at the Stanford University Computational Imaging Group, and his team have developed a new virtual reality headset prototype they call “a light-field stereoscope”. They promise that their headset decreases motion sickness symptoms which some users experience when using current VR headsets for an extended period of time. The development aims to … Read more
On July 29th, the Rental and Staging Roadshow came to New York. The focus was on professional AV products as used by the rental and staging (R&S) industry. Two panel discussions at the roadshow were of interest to readers of Large Display Monitor, the first on Media Servers for the R&S industry and the second … Read more
Epson America will be demonstrating the latest consumer and enterprise applications on its Moverio® BT-200 augmented reality smart glasses at SIGGRAPH 2015 Aug. 11-13 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Additionally, Epson invites developers to stop by booth #937 to participate in live coding sessions and learn best practices for developing on the Moverio platform. … Read more
EverDisplay Optronics (EDO) announced this week the launch of the world’s first 6-inch 4K AMOLED display. Although 4K TV is already commonplace among the consumer market, replicating the same resolution onto a mere 6-inch panel, a huge PPI hike up to 734, presented a formidable, hundred-fold scale challenge in terms of both design and process. … Read more
Panasonic Corporation today announced that it will start the mass-production of the capacitive-type, highly sensitive, multi-touch capable automotive curved touch panel at the end of September 2015. The panels can enhance the design flexibility of vehicle cockpits and the operability of the panels of car navigation systems and, in addition, are suitable for the screens … Read more
Gesture-sensing control (‘gesture control’) user interface shipments are forecast to rise 10% YoY this year, to 1.8 billion units. IHS says that touchscreen technology is not suitable for some new and emerging applications, such as smartwatches, VR games and smart TVs, so gestures could fill a growing gap in the market. “Gesture-sensing control will not … Read more
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