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Meta Pushes the Envelope on HMD Brightness

Meta has been working on many aspects of VR and AR display use for years. At Siggraph this year the firm showed its experiments with pushing the brightness of VR headsets to new levels. UploadVR interviewed Douglas Lanman, Display Systems Research Director at Meta about the development and one comment that he made struck home with … Read more

DCI Adds Another LG LED Cinema

What They Say DCI has approved a new LG LED Display based on a model LDAA012 display device with a Dolby Media Block. The full specification said that the display was created with 6 modules per cabinet and a total of 48 cabinets. What We Think I couldn’t find a reference online to an LG … Read more

New Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 with DisplayPort 2.1

What They Say At an AMD event to unveil the Radeon RX 7900 XT(X), Samsung teased a new Odyssey Neo G9 monitor that we expect will have a 32:9 aspect ratio monitor that will have 8K horizontal resolution. The monitor is likely to be formally announced at CES 2023 in January. According to the AMD event, … Read more

Vankyo V700W LCD Projector: Cinema Quality Image & Audio in your Living Room

Vankyo’s new entry-level projector, the “V700W 1080P Full HD”, is affordably priced yet comes with a superb performance in terms of audio as well as sharpness and brightness of its image. Vankyo is a global leader in projectors, which it both develops and manufactures in-house, with offices and warehouses in both Shenzhen (the tech capital … Read more

Superhexa Glasses Use Sony MicroOLEDs

What They Say SuperHexa, a 2020 startup based in Beijing, has new Vision smartglasses with integrated wide (50 megapixel) and telephoto (8 megapixel) cameras. The glasses are available through a funded Indiegogo project and should ship this month. They are based on a Qualcomm 8 core processor with 32GB of storage. They cost from $399. The display … Read more

Optoma Introduces Super-bright WUXGA Projectors

What They Say Optoma has three new very high brightness 1920 x 1200 DLP projectors, the ZU1700, ZU1900 and ZU2200 with 17,000 (14,500 Ansi), 19,000 (16,000 Ansi) and 22,000 (18,500 Ansi) lumens of output, respectively and based on the firm’s DuraCore MultiColor Laser light source technology. Eight different lenses are available and the connectivity includes 3G-SDI … Read more

Apple TV with Samsung Sets Gets HDR10+ Support

What They Say Up to now, the Apple TV box and the Apple TV+ service have not supported the HDR10+ dynamic metadata protocol developed by Samsung. Apple has tended to support Dolby Vision, which Samsung TVs have not supported that system. We reported that the new Apple TV box added support for HDR10+ (Apple Announces … Read more

Universal Display Corporation Announces Third Quarter 2022 Financial Results

Universal Display Corporation, enabling energy-efficient displays and lighting with its UniversalPHOLED® technology and materials, reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022. “We are pleased to report solid third quarter results, which includes record quarterly revenues. As we look ahead, we believe that the long-term growth path of the OLED industry remains strong. We … Read more