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The Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference organized by IHS at SID’s 2015 Display Week featured a presentation by Andrew Witte, Founder and CTO, Pebble Technology. The Pebble smartwatch (pictured below) initially funded through crowd funding platform Kickstarter, was the first smartwatch to reach any level of scale and more than a million of the original watch … Read more
ViewSonic Corp., a leading global provider of visual solution products, introduces its LightStream™ Full HD 1080p projector series for data projection or home entertainment. The LightStream Full HD 1080p series of projectors include the PJD7825HD (black chassis), PJD7830HDL (white chassis), and PJD7835HD (black chassis), with a brightness range from 3000 lumens to 3500 lumens. Engineered … Read more
Can’t forget the Tim Cook-alikes!Apple has a history of comedic openings for its WWDC keynotes, and this year’s was no different. Bill Hader stars as ‘director David LeGary’, who is orchestrating the most elaborate opening show in history – featuring the likes of the red Angry Bird, Danny Purdi of Community fame (in a catchy … Read more
Apple’s WWDC has been and gone again, but this year’s event was unlike those in the recent past – because there were no new product announcements. Instead, like Google at Google I/O in May, Apple looks to be focusing on building a larger, more expansive and smarter ecosystem for its products to share. A refreshed … Read more
The ISO TC130 committee, which sets global standards for the graphic arts, has adopted the X-Rite Colour Exchange Format v3 (CxF3). CxF3 has been taken on as a new standard for colour data exchange and verification. The new standard is known as ISO 17972-1:2015, providing the graphic arts industry with an accurate, efficient way to … Read more
ImagineOptix has been on our radar for a few years because of its development of a Polarization Grating – Polarization Conversion System (PG-PCS). This is a clever technology that uses liquid crystal based polymer layers to polarize light and create a polarization conversion component. This compact combination increases the efficiency of polarization-based display solutions (LCOS … Read more
Luminit is another company working on LC-based photopolymers to create optical functionality. One of the features it was showing off was the creation of lenses and gratings for use in AR/VR headsets and other applications. On display was a waveguide solution that was not used to inject an image, but only a simple beam of … Read more
6p laser projection offers many advantages for theatrical 3D such as high luminance and high contrast. 3D separation is based upon glasses that use two different sets of RGB filters to pass the 6 primaries to the left (RGB) or right eye (R’B’G’). In paper #66-1 at SID, RealD exposed some real performance problems with … Read more
Following a report by the Dutch Data Protection Authority (CBP), Ziggo has stopped collecting its customers’ personal data. The company was collecting data using interactive services to learn about customers’ TV viewing habits. Such collection is only allowed on an opt-in basis. Ziggo has since introduced measures to make the collected data anonymous.
Yesterday (June 10) at a Lower West Side exhibit space in New York, Sharp showed media people its line-up of Aquos UHD-TVs now hitting retailer’s floors and websites in the US. Sets were exhibited in five mini-areas, each focused on one of the five themes Sharp was highlighting: Aquos 4k Ultra HD AquoDimming 4k UHD … Read more
Vestel, one of the leading enterprises in Consumer Electronics Technology and Innovation, announces the adoption of the Android TV™ platform for its UHD TVs and Set Top Boxes. The new powerful TV and Set Top Box platforms powered by Android TV combine user friendly TV Middleware with the Android Ecosystem while delivering an excellent 4K/UHD … Read more
Click to enlargeGoogle’s glucose-monitoring contact lens was a prototype a year ago (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 4), but was presented as a named product at the opening of the Design Automation Conference this month. Now known as the Google Smart Lens, it is a non-invasive smart glucose monitor in a disposable contact lens. RFID … Read more
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