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Innovative DLP Demos in the TI Suite

In addition to the HUD technology described in a separate article, TI showed a number of products using DLP chips – mostly the newest TRP chip set. One very cool new product from HP is called the Sprout (HP’s PC Unit Sprouts Anew). This is an all-in-one PC with a 23″ monitor and pico-projector built-in … Read more

TI Prepares DLP-based HUDs for Automotive Integration

At CES 2014, TI was showing the first demos of a new DLP chip set designed for HUDs. Today, we are aware of only a couple of production cars that feature microdisplay-based HUDs, but that could change this year. In the TI suite this year, the HUD was shown again. The HUD creates a 12 … Read more

Osram and Luminus Show Display and Other LED Applications

We took the opportunity to visit with LED makers Osram and Luminus in the Westgate at CES 2015. These two companies supply many of the high power LEDs used in LED projectors. But the LEDs have other uses as well, which we learned a little more about at CES. In projection, all-LED devices now top … Read more

Peraso Demos 60 GHz USB 3.0 Adaptor and LAN at CES 2015

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Peraso (Toronto, Canada) is a fabless semiconductor company focused on the development of 60 GHz chip sets and solutions compliant with the IEEE 802.11ad specification. 60 GHz has been adopted for interoperability certification by the WiFi Alliance under the WiGig brand, which has seen strong industry endorsement by tech giants such as Samsung, Qualcomm and Intel. … Read more

Altia Offers Panoramic Video Conferencing Solution at CES 2015

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 to Bring Advanced Features to Monitors and TVs at a Value Price

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 Shows Floating Image and Virtual Image Concepts at CES 2015

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

IEEE Adopts HDBaseT Standard for 4K Connectivity

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

SuperMHL Spec Allows One-Cable Connection for 8K content

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

The Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) Effort Aims to Speed Adoption

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