Leyard & Dimenco Show 110″ 3D LED
3D developer Dimenco worked with LED supplier Leyard to demonstrate a glasses-free 3D 108″ display at InfoComm 2015.
Leyard Shows Top Half of an 8K LED Display
Leyard created a large LED wall at InfoComm 2015 using 1.25mm pitch panels that had about half the vertical, but the full horizontal resolution of an 8K display.
Panasonic and NEC Showcase LED vs. LCD at Display Summit 2015
The Display Summit 2015 was the showcase for a comparison between a fine pitch (1.25mm) LED wall supplied by Panasonic and a 2×2 LCD wall supplied by NEC. Both featured the same content for attendees to really evaluate them side by side.
Digilens Creates Polymer Optics (DS11)
Jonathan Waldern is CEO of Digilens which has a new kind of material for waveguide optics. He started by asking “who has heard of Google Glass?” – who has tried it, and who would buy it? The audience clearly showed that it wasn’t ready to buy! The waveguide optics of Digilens are different from refractive … Read more
Panasonic Shows Projection Mapping
Panasonic showed a couple of interesting projection mapping solutions at InfoComm 2015. One was illuminating a car and one incorporated a tablet-based augmented reality capability.
Philips Shows Backward Compatible HDR Signal Transport at Display Summit 2015
Philips used the Display Summit to show how it can deliver an SDR (standard dynamic range) video stream with metadata that can be used to derive an HDR (high dynamic range) image for an HDR-capable display. The company can do the reverse as well – deliver an HDR image that can be used on an … Read more
NEC Shows Blended Whiteboard Application
NEC showed how it can blend multiple short throw projectors to create an interactive white board solution for corporate or education markets.
Sharma Calls for Industry to Measure with L*a*b* (DS10)
Dr Abhay Sharma is a Color Consultant from Abhay Consulting and he is also a professor from Toronto University. He started by saying that we need numbers to measure colour, and he doesn’t understand why the industry uses Yxy. Many industries use LAB which is a better colour space for understanding human colour perception. Humans … Read more
rpVisuals Shows Ribbon of Content on Multiple Display Technologies
rpVisuals had a very nice demo where the same content was shown on a number of displays all side by side. This included front and rear projection, LCD and LED.
Sony Shows First Laser Phosphor Projector Capable of HDR
Sony showed several new 3LCD projectors with laser phosphor technology, but the most interesting one is a new 4k SXRD projector that will show 80% of the 2020 gamut. It is also the first true high dynamic range projector with a native contrast of 20,000:1.
Anoto Shows Novel Pen-Display Interface with 600 dpi Resolution
Anoto has a new film for pen input that offers very fine detail reproduction – up to 600 or more dpi. (This technology was also used by Panasonic on its ToughPad 4k tablet as well as being used in the LiveScribe note taking system.)
Cumulative Wearable Device Shipments to Surpass 750 Million Units by 2020, According to Tractica
The market for wearable devices is experiencing a period of heady growth, thus far driven primarily by consumer adoption of fitness trackers, but with smart watches catching up fast and expected to eclipse fitness tracker unit volumes by the end of 2015. According to a recent report from Tractica, wearables adoption among consumers and business … Read more
