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Altia panacast cameraWe met with Altia Systems in a private suite at the Westgate at CES and learned more about the company’s PanaCast system. This is a 200-degree capture camera and image processing system that it is targeting toward video conferencing applications. The camera itself is composed of three individual cameras with the total FOV being about … Read more
Westinghouse Digital is now Westinghouse Electronics Limited, according to representatives of the company that we met with at CES 2015. The name change reflects the new ownership by a big Chinese conglomerate – an organization that owned the factories that made the Westinghouse products previously. Operationally, much will remain the same, however. Westinghouse is trying … Read more
Wavien used CES 2015 to show a different type of floating image display. A floating image display takes a real object or electronic image and using optics, creates a virtual image that appears to be floating in space. We have seen such displays for 20 years with perhaps the latest effort coming from a company … Read more
At CES 2015, the HDBaseT Alliance announced that the HDBaseT Specifications 1.1.0 and 2.0 have been approved by the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Standards Board for adoption as part of the organization’s standard portfolio. The HDBaseT standard will become IEEE 1911 standard, once the adoption process is complete. This is a significant endorsement of the … Read more
The MHL Consortium has developed a new specification and cable solution to meet an unmet need – the desire to deliver 8K content over a single cable. At CES 2015 the Consortium revealed some details of the specification and a working prototype. The MHL Consortium was organized to serve the mobile device market by using … Read more
DivX is a company I (CC) have a hard time understanding, so in our meeting at CES, I asked them to explain what they did and what their mission is. Even after their explanation, I am still a little fuzzy, but I will try to explain what is going on with this rapidly changing company. In … Read more
Major gaming peripherals provider, Razer, was at CES to promote its new program called Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR), which is a partnership of a number of companies involved in virtual reality. The idea is to offer open access to both the hardware and software for development of VR products and applications in a bid … Read more
Immersion-VRelia, Inc. has developed a VR headset that uses a smartphone as the imaging device. The “GO” product, featured at CES 2015, is a housing that holds the smartphone and includes optics to display an immersive world. While the company is developing several hardware-based VR solutions, it also recognizes that content will be the key to … Read more
We did not get a chance to try on the latest VR headset from Avegant, which is called the Glyph, although we did see the initial version at last year’s CES. This headset looks like a set of headphones wrapped around the eyes, or maybe a video visor with headphones. It does have a … Read more
In a concept that is similar to one shown by Seebright, a company called Caputer showed a prototype headset they call the SEER. They think it gives users the look of Iron Man. It is a big, bulky headset that appears to not have any counterweights added to the back for balance. It will not … Read more
TechnicaI Illusions (Woodlinville, WA) used a suite at CES 2015 to offer private demos of it CastAR headset. The company opened a Kickstarter campaign last fall with the goal of raising $400K, but got to just over $1M before the round closed. Now, the founders are working to develop the products to deliver to its … Read more
Sony used CES to showcase two new prototypes – the next versions of the devices we reported on from IFA. The SmartEyeglass device is a dual ocular eyeglasses type device for AR applications while the Attach is a monocular AR module that, as the name suggests, attaches to a pair of eyeglasses. Both require a … Read more
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