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Apple is reported to have acquired German virtual reality start-up Metaio. The company currently makes a number of SDKs and toolkits that help to create augmented reality apps and has created a holodeck-style game with an iPad. Metaio’s software is used in applications in retail, industrial and automotive markets. Apple has not confirmed the acquisition, … Read more
Intel has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Altera in an all-cash transaction which values the deal at $16.7 billion. This is the second major semiconductor acquisition in days, following the sale of Broadcom to Avago last Friday (Avago to Buy Broadcom for $37 Billion). The acquisition will couple Intel’s products and manufacturing processes with … Read more
Sources in Asia say that CSOT began manufacturing at its second G8.5 factory, in southern China, in April. In early May, the company began to mass-produce 55″ (1920 x 1080) LCD TV panels, with a yield rate of 80%. Later, 49″ and 55″ UltraHD panels will be produced. Panels will initially be supplied to TCL, … Read more
Japan’s NHK showed a 50″ LCD display with a laser backlight and ‘very wide’ colour gamut at its Open House event last month, says the Nikkei. According to NHK’s Science & Technology Research Laboratories (STRL), the display ‘has the widest colour gamut in the world at this point’: 98% of Rec.2020. Left: BT.2020 coverage. Right: … Read more
The new Ultra HD Blu-ray specs have been approved and new players and content are expected by the end of the year. But authoring UHD Blu-ray content is more complex than HD, so a new focus group has been formed to share information to help accelerate the learning curve to enable as much content to … Read more
It seems there is no let up in the rain here in Colorado during our ‘monsoon’ season, but at least the landscape is in full bloom with beautiful hues of green. Events and developments in educational 3D also seem to be blooming at a healthy pace. Here’s some rapid-fire news from the educational 3D world: … Read more
Worldwide PC shipments are expected to fall by -6.2% in 2015 according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. This will be the fourth consecutive year of declining volume as the PC market continues to struggle with competition from tablets and smartphones and generally low demand. The market almost saw stable shipments … Read more
FlexEnable, the leader in the development and industrialisation of flexible electronics, is announcing a technology breakthrough for the manufacture of full colour, organic liquid crystal displays (OLCD), making the manufacture of glass-free LCDs both practical and cost-effective for the first time. FlexEnable has developed the only technology that enables the manufacture of a TFT array … Read more
The smart augmented reality (AR) glasses market is a combination of different technologies, from simple head-up displays (HUDs) like Google Glass that act as a second screen, readily accessible with a glance, displaying text or images, to more complex holographic display technologies like the Microsoft HoloLens or Magic Leap that provide immersive and tangible experiences. … Read more
“There’s nothing on!” – it’s a common complaint. But how many times did you stop and think about your poor pooch, sitting there as you veg out on re-runs of Gossip Girl for the nth time? Worry no more, Fido – now you have a TV channel just for you. Dog TV, intended to entertain … Read more
AMD has revealed that the massive digital sign unveiled in Times Square last year (New Times Square LED Sign Could Be Largest in the World) is driven by its own Firepro professional graphics cards. The LED screen, which has 10048 x 2368 resolution, uses three graphics cards: each responsible for six sections of the display. … Read more
Volfoni is really gunning for RealD, having officially welcomed a patent invalidation in China. China’s Patent Re-Examination Board declared that RealD’s UM patent CN 203433207U did not bring enough novelty and innovation to the market. The move follows another patent invalidation in Russia earlier this year, for the same reasons. Comment This goes completely against … Read more
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