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Links Week Starting 14th November 2022

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week.  Interested in VFX? – BorisFX held a webinar on ‘Wendell & Wild” Samsung Rounds Up Gaming Monitor Activities Qatar’s Expanded Airport Has 1.2 Kilometers Of LED Ribbon In … Read more

KT&T developed a full-color OLED microdisplay with a brightness of 12,000 nits

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What They Say KT&T is a spin-off of INT Tech of Taiwan and is based in Taizhou, China and is commercialising INT Tech technology for use in OLED microdisplay according to OLED-info.com. The firm has now developed a 0.39″ XGA device under the iNEEDXR brand that can produce up to 12,000 cd/m² of output using … Read more

Sony cooperates with Kramer (Again)

What They Say Sony is teaming with Kramer to work on combining Kramer’s software with its own analytics to address the education market. The Bravia display will become the control processor for all the AV devices in the room. There is also the option to move away from a centralised control processor by using the Kramer … Read more

VIZIO Unveils Reimagined User Experience and Branding for WatchFree+

VIZIO has unveiled an upgraded design and user experience for WatchFree+, VIZIO’s free streaming service that comes built into millions of VIZIO Smart TVs. This latest update brings a new look and feel, intuitive Electronic Program Guide (EPG), faster and easier navigation, and personalization features to the free streaming service. WatchFree+ has grown to include more … Read more

New Vision Display Announces a New Driver for its ZBD Displays

New Vision Display, a Shenzhen-based company, has announced that their R&D teams in China and the UK, have jointly developed a custom driver for their ZBD displays. This new driver is able to support multiple ZBD displays with resolutions of up to 480 x 320, a marked improvement compared to legacy drivers that supported resolutions … Read more

Varjo Adds Support for Leading 3D Engines to Its Varjo Reality Cloud Platform

Varjo, maker of professional-grade VR/XR hardware and software, announced support for Unity and Unreal Engine projects for its Varjo Reality Cloud platform. This ready-to-use enterprise software as a service (SaaS), allows real-time VR/XR cloud streaming capabilities, anywhere and at any time to supported devices for professional users. Earlier this year, Varjo Reality Cloud streaming for human-eye resolution VR/XR content became available, … Read more

Optoma Expands ProAV Interchangeable Lens Range With New High Brightness WUXGA Laser Projectors, ZU1300 and ZU1100

Optoma, a world-leading manufacturer of large display products and the #1 DLP® brand worldwide and in the Americas, launched the newest additions to its lineup of high brightness laser ProAV projectors – the ZU1300 and ZU1100. With an incredible 14,400 and 11,500 lumens respectively, the Optoma ZU1300 and ZU1100 deliver stunning, high brightness images with razor … Read more

Apple’s AR/VR headset will reportedly begin mass production in March.

What They Say Digitimes said that its sources have ‘hinted’ that Apple’s new headset will be made exclusively by Pegatron with planned sales of 750K units in 2023 and with production starting at the end of the quarter. Separately, Mark Gurman of Bloomberg has said that it will have the Apple M2 chip, 10 cameras … Read more

Sharp to Restructure SDP

What They Say Sharp reported its quarterly and half year result to the end of September. Overall sales were up 3.3% year on year for the first half at $9.02 billion with profits down 75.7% to $72 million. The display device business was down 6.9% to $2.92 billion with losses of $86 million. The second … Read more

Bright, efficient and stable LEDs made using nanocrystals of perovskite material

What They Say Nature has published a paper that describes new perovskite LEDs (PeLEDs) made from perovskite nanocrystals (around 10nm) that have a coating of benzylphosphonic acid (BPA) via a ‘simple reaction’. The article said: The BPA shell passivates the undercoordinated lead atoms by forming covalent bonds, and thereby greatly reduces the trap density while maintaining … Read more