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DD Technologies Starts Crowdfunding for its IRIS HUD

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DD Technologies, a Vancouver, Canada-based company has started its crowd funding campaign on Indiegogo. So far it has reached around 35% of its $50,000 goal in one week. The head up display (HUD) is projection based and comes with a resolution of 720p. Most interestingly there are two versions under development, Iris DLP and Iris … Read more

Infocomm 2015: Currents and Undercurrents for the Education Marketplace

I’ve been an educational technology director for 25 years, with a significant track record in large educational technology and AV purchases. I just returned from walking every aisle of Infocomm 2015, poking my head into corners it certainly didn’t belong in. Education Perspectives I was searching for promising trends, developments and products that might offer … Read more

Samsung Launches First Monitors in UHD Line to Deploy AMD’s FreeSync™ Technology

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., announced the introduction of the U24E590D and U28E590D, the first Samsung UHD monitors with AMD’s FreeSync™ technology. These UHD monitors offer unprecedented picture quality for gaming, entertainment and multi-tasking activities. The U24E590D and U28E590D are the first UHD Samsung monitors with AMD FreeSync™ capabilities. FreeSync synchronizes the monitors’ refresh rates to … Read more

ZeeVee Can Support Legacy Coax Video (DS15)

Danny Barr is from ZeeVee and he talked about extending and switching UltraHD video in mission-critical applications. His talk was entitled “The 3 Cs of Video Distribution:Complexity, Compression and Cost”. ZeeVee’s history is in video distribution and it started by delivering video over coax, while it has added IP distribution now. He started by talking … Read more

HDBaseT Needs Better Cables for UltraHD (DS14)

Micha Risling is from the HDBaseT Alliance and also works for Valens, the semiconductor company behind the technology. As had already been said, the big challenge in interfaces is how to extend for longer distance and higher bandwidth. HDMI and DisplayPort do a great job, but “how do you extend?”, he asked. The challenge is … Read more

Keep HDMI and Develop MHL Says Lattice (DS13)

Marshall Goldberg is from Lattice Semiconductor, which recently bought Silicon Image, the developer of HDMI and MHL and the owners of the SiBeam wireless technology. Goldberg went through the history of HDMI from V1.4 at 4K30 in 2009 to SuperMHL in 2014 at 8K120. He also pointed out that the specification for 4k UltraHD on … Read more

Day Two of Display Summit Looks at Connectivity to Start (DS12)

The second day of the Display Summit started with a session moderated by our own Bob Raikes that covered connectivity, especially the impact of UltraHD/4k content. The first speaker was Bob Ventresca who is from Thinklogical and he started by saying that there are challenges to getting all the ultraHD content moved around. It’s all … Read more

Kverve Has New Optics for AR (DS11b)

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Jorn Eriksen is from Kverve, a start up from Norway (Eriksen was the founder of CEO of Projection Design, so has some track record in the industry). The project that Kverve is working on started with the walkmouse – using an Oculus Rift set of VR viewers and allowing walking. Eriksen said that you quickly … Read more