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LeTV, the Chinese VoD provider (similar to Netflix), is working with Immersion Corp. to bring ‘a 4D’ experiences to its videos. In cinemas, 4D refers to extra effects such as light, rain and wind. However, LeTV intends to enable the technology on smartphones, via haptics. The touch-based simulations will be enabled in film trailers, and … Read more
At the 5th African Digital TV Development Seminar, in China, it was announced that ‘most’ of Africa would miss the digital switchover deadline – which has now passed. Tanzania and Kenya are the only countries that have come close to achieving ASO – and only 70% of Kenya will be covered by August.
Scalable Display Technologies (SDT), the leading provider of software for multi-projector display systems, featured on eight partner displays on the InfoComm 2015 show floor. This widespread adoption of Scalable software for immersive displays is fueling Scalable’s growth. Scalable has OEM and marketing partnerships with many top tier projector brands, component suppliers and integrators. A partial … Read more
Christopher Pickett is CEO of Pelican Imaging which has a depth camera for mobile devices. We have previously written about the company, which uses camera arrays and use the multiple images to calculate depth. Simple patterned light sources help the process – you take the edges and the patterns and calculate the depth of objects … Read more
Ken Lee is from VanGogh Imaging and he talked about mixed reality for smartphones and wearables. The company has expertise in software and 3D computer vision. VanGogh is seven years old and the firm has worked in medical, 3D printing and has even worked on weighing cows! There are lots of AR applications and Lee … Read more
The next speaker was Shachar Oz from Intel’s RealSense software group, based in the Middle East and he gave a live demo of the technology being used in the Intel “Toyz” application, which he helped to design. (For more on RealSense see our recent report on the Intel keynote speech at SID Intel Concentrates on … Read more
A speaker from the Fraunhofer in Dresden gave a presentation on the bidirectional microdisplay that it has developed. It is said to be ideal for gaze tracking, while showing data to the user. However, we covered the technology in our SID report last week, where we got more information. See Fraunhofer Shows Bidirectional SVGA Microdisplay … Read more
The next session was on hardware and the first speaker was Matthew Clyne, from Tobii Technology, where he is a technology evangelist, working on developing partnerships and supporting developers. Tobii was founded in 2001 and claims to be the largest eye tracking hardware supplier in the world. There are a number of ways to do … Read more
Guy Bieber is from Citrix and he is from the office of the CTO. He showed a video of AR concepts – involving architecture and remote medicine. When you want to make a change, you have to have pain or gain, he said. The first question is “where is the pain?”. People these days are … Read more
Juergen Lumera of Bosch Automotive, where he is involved in technical documentation, started by saying its easier to get outsiders to introduce AR – insiders are not always trusted. To get out of “sandboxes” and into real applications, the first thing to find out “where do you waste money at the moment”. In his experience, … Read more
We moved to the AR for Enterprise track where where he heard that the Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance (AREA) is a trade association that is supporting the development of professional and corporate applications of AR/VR. Its main aim is to drive the expansion of the application and it wants to be a global, member-based … Read more
The success of mobile devices, we believe, is partly driven by the sensors that are available on them. The desktop has not had the same development in input – the keyboard and mouse remain the key input devices. We have been following Intel’s RealSense quite a lot, but we hadn’t caught up with what is … Read more
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