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UHD Blu-ray Players Will Appear at IFA

The UltraHD Blu-ray standard was announced this month (BDA Completes UltraHD Blu-ray), and Panasonic has wasted no time in talking about pricing, with a promise of ‘No thousand-dollar machines’. Ron Martin, of Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory, has told What Hi-Fi that Panasonic – and most other manufacturers – will be showing UltraHD Blu-ray players by IFA, … Read more

Tablet Processors to Shrink for First Time

The global tablet processor market will continue to slow this year, says Taiwan’s MIC, based on a saturated market; phablet competition; and low-cost notebook popularity. The market will reach the point of stagnation ‘in the next few years’. Following three years of growth, tablet processor shipments only rose 1.3% YoY in 2014, MIC’s data shows. … Read more

Wistron Forecasts Positive Second Half

Wistron expects its notebook shipments to be flat in this quarter, from last quarter’s 4.7 million units. However, the company has told the Taipei Times that it is optimistic for the second half of the year, when Windows 10 and Intel’s new Skylake microarchitecure will be launched. Shipments of smart devices are expected to fall … Read more

BAE Focuses on Augmented Reality

BAE has announced a partnership with the University of Birmingham with the goal of developing augmented reality systems. The new “augmented reality systems could revolutionize complex emergency response and military battlefield operations, by drastically improving the situational awareness, decision-making and asset management of operators”, as BAE stated in its press release. The company also released … Read more

OTOY Developing Means for Light Field Capture of Real World Environments

OTOY Inc. (Los Angeles, CA), is developing a camera system that can capture a spherical light field of a real world environment. Such imagery can be transformed into a virtual world scene that is viewable by a user wearing 3D VR goggles. Most significantly, the new system will eventually allow the user to move freely … Read more

Fujitsu Works on Smartglasses in Different Forms

Fujitsu AR headset

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona we had a chance to see a smartglass device that was developed by Fujitsu for the vertical markets(Fujitsu Looks to Industrial Apps and Iris Recognition). Now Fujitsu has announced that the device is going into actual supply status. According to the press release, the device will be available … Read more

Exhibition Highlights from Streaming Media East

SRI test generator

Streaming Media East also had a small exhibition area with 47 companies showing off their offering related to content creation and streaming video. While there were some acquisition-related exhibitors, most exhibitors offered management and monetization solutions for streamed content. These refer to software solutions that make it easier for companies to create streaming solutions. Most … Read more