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CCDL was showing a 6mm pitch LED stereo 3D display based on a polariser over each pixel, and these have polarising filters that are arranged to alternate in chirality. The firm told us that the approach is unique and patented. DNP was showing a number of films including new QD films. These will be available … Read more
The 2015 SID Display Week Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference hosted a session and panel discussion on the role of and limitations for wearables imposed by power consumption and battery size, type and capacity. The speakers were Andy Crump, Ascent Batteries; Giovanni Mancini, Eink; Dominic Pajak, ARM; Tim Saxe of Quicklogic; and Sam Massih of InvenSense. … Read more
Ernesto Martinez, Head of Wearable Computing at Kopin, delivered a talk entitled Wearables: Enabling Human Augmentation during the Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference at SID Display Week. The speaker noted that Kopin, the venerable microdisplay maker, is now a thirty year old company. Dr. Martinez made reference in his talk to his prior work at MIT … Read more
One of the challenges in many autostereoscopic display technologies is that of producing a smooth variation in the 3D imagery as the viewer moves in user space. That is, of producing smooth motion parallax along the horizontal axis. Recent developments on addressing this issue have been reported by a team of researchers headed by Munekazu … Read more
We had a tour of the LG Display booth that started with a look at the latest 55″, 65″ and 77″ UltraHD OLED TV panels. There is no question that the visual performance of these panels is very impressive, although we worry that the lack of volume on OLED TV will make life very hard … Read more
One of the challenges faced by participants in the Virtual Reality industry is to make creating and watching VR simpler for consumers. To that end, Google has launched a new open source VR platform called Jump. Jump can be described as an entire ecosystem for creating virtual reality videos. The system consists of three parts: … Read more
One of the more profound papers on core microdisplay (MD) technology advancement at SID Display Week came from a Columbia University start-up company, Lumiode. In Session 26.2 the team led by Dr. Brian Tull presented the paper ‘High Brightness Emissive Microdisplay by Integration of III-V LEDs with Thin Film Silicon Transistors’. The group hopes to … Read more
BOE came to the SID last year for the first time. This time, the company was back with an impressive display from the low end to the high end. As the company explained in its Business Conference keynote (Business Conference Kicks Off Display Week (BC1), it is looking for value added markets. As we reported … Read more
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
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