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What They Say ARtillery Intelligence has published its forecast for VR revenues, with a view that it will more than triple from $8.3 billion in 2021 to $28.8 billion in 2026, a 28.3% compound annual growth rate. Consumer spending (hardware and software) holds a leading share of VR revenues with an estimated $7.25 billion in 2022. This is driven by gaming’s dominance as … Read more
What They Say TCL has launched a new series of TVs based on Amazon’s Fire TV OS. The 55″ and 65″ sets will be sold in Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK. What We Think Protocol Entertainment has an interesting article on how TCL tried getting around Android licensing restrictions by Google including setting up a … Read more
What They Say According to The Information, Apple is developing a 16″ iPad that could be released at the end of 2023. There were no details of the display that might be used. What We Think At the end of 2023, it seems unlikely to me that Apple would use an OLED. However, there is … Read more
What They Say LG Display released its Q3 financials and held its earnings call. Revenues were up 21% QoQ, but down 6% YoY at $4.75 billion and income was 11% down with an operating loss of $530 million and a net loss of $543 million. ASP was up from $566/m² in Q2 to $675/m² but … Read more
Portrait Displays, global leader in color calibration solutions and advanced display control, has acquired Patterns™, the premiere video test pattern generator for macOS. As pioneers in color accuracy, Portrait Displays is always in pursuit of forward-thinking innovations to aid creatives in their storytelling processes. Developed by world-class providers of calibration services to studios, post-production facilities, … Read more
Yesterday, I introduced AR and its applications and today I’ll look some other aspects of AR and VR. The VR/AR category was expanded to include “MR” (Mixed Reality) also called “MX” (or passthrough AR – editor). It is differentiated from the other two by replacing optical see-through with video see-through which has lower luminance requirements than … Read more
With the slowdown in smartphone, IT and TV demand, VR/AR/MR is gaining center stage in the display industry, especially now that Apple has committed to its first two products. Through 2022, Meta’s Quest VR headset had more than a 70% share of the VR headset market and they recently introduced the Meta Quest Pro. OLED displays … Read more
What They Say Sony has released its latest A7 series mirrorless camera that has a 60MP sensor and, for the first time in the series, can capture 8K video. However, our attention was drawn to the new electronic viewfinder (EVF) that has a 2048 x 1536 (4:3) resolution OLED. The display in the EVF also has … Read more
What They Say Samsung announced its Q2 2022 result and saw profits decline 23% but still came out at $7.65 billion and revenues were $54.15 billion. The company still expects record revenues for the year because of the strong first half. The strength in the U.S. dollar against the Korean won benefited the Company’s component businesses, … Read more
Nex Computer LLC announced the launch of NexPad: a portable monitor with built-in magnets that can attach to laptops for vertical dual-screen setup. Research shows that using dual monitors boosts productivity. However, using side-by-side monitors isn’t always optimal because of the large gap between the monitors, diminishing the view. The side-by-side setup also spans outside of … Read more
Looking at Apple’s 2022 sales, the company began adjusting the proportion of new products after the initial wave of pre-orders. The market response after the release of the iPhone 14 Plus was lukewarm, escalating Apple’s product adjustment process. The iPhone 14 Pro series boasts improved specifications yet unit prices are the same as last year’s … Read more
What They Say TrendForce released its latest smartphone forecast and said that it expects that the ratio of iPhone 14 Pro to Plus models could reach 65%, having got to 60%. It said that the Apple target for 2022 is 240 million units, up 2.8%. However, economic headwinds mean that its initial plan of 56 … Read more
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