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A price and release date has been shared for Acer’s S77HK 27″ UltraHD LCD monitor (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 36). It will go on sale in December, starting at £460 ($720). The Insight 4k 3DLP projector (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 25), from Digital Projection, will be launched in Q2’15. Eyevis is expanding its … Read more
Analogix Semiconductor has developed new embedded DisplayPort (eDP) mainstream timing controllers (TCONs), as well as Panel Self Refresh- (PSR) enabled TCONs supporting UltraHD. These devices enable mobile vendors to extend battery life under ‘any’ usage conditions, says Analogix, while also providing video. The ANX1701 and ANX1772 mainstream TCONs use the Analogix Gapless architecture; this enables … Read more
According to Cyberland, the Oculus Rift VR headset will (finally) be launched in February 2016. The claim follows Oculus VR founder and CEO Brendan Iribe hinting that the device would be released in 2015 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 40).
China’s Everdisplay has told OLED-Info that it has a monthly capacity of 600,000 5″ OLED panels at its G4.5 fab. Full capacity (15,000 substrates) has not yet been reached. The company expects to increase production to 1 million 5″ panels a month by the end of the year. It will also begin to produce 5.6″ … Read more
Tech Data Mobile Solutions in the UK has been appointed as exclusive distributor for HTC’s new Nexus 9 tablet.
China’s Ingenic has developed an asymmetric, dual-core MIPS-based chip for 301, as well as a 15 x 13mm development kit. The Newton2 dev kit includes the new processor (M200), eMCP memory, power management controller, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, sensors and seven micro-connectors for peripherals. The board runs both Android and Linux. As for the M200 itself, the … Read more
A tiny structure called a nanopore ‘could bring about the ultimate miniaturisation of energy storage components’. Invented by University of Maryland researchers, the nanopore is a tiny hole in a ceramic sheet. It holds an electrolyte to carry an electrical charge between nanotube electrodes at either end. Each nanoelectrode includes an outer nanotube current collector … Read more
Augmented reality headsets are typically being measured by being compared with the Google Glass device. The issue of what augmented reality can be used for is still ongoing and recent press releases favor corporate applications over consumer use. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has shown its augmented reality solution developed for the Augmented Immersive … Read more
A team of optical engineers at the the University of Connecticut has developed a way to securely display 3D images by scanning a QR code. The QR codes store compressed, encrypted images that can be scanned, decrypted and decompressed by commercial smartphones. Smartphones do not require an internet connection to receive the images, although a … Read more
The second-generation Samsung Simband wearable is now in beta testing. Unlike the first Simband, this new model acts as a smartwatch as well as a fitness tracker; it has been redesigned, with a curved 2″ AMOLED display. The band is modular and features multiple health sensors. A clever feature is the hot-swappable battery, to enable … Read more
Samsung Display is asking supply chaing members to lower component pricing by as much as 30%, as the company aims to drop its overall pricing for small- and medium-size panels. The news comes from sources in Taiwan.
Germany’s Sensomotoric Instruments (SMI) has launched an eye-tracking upgrade package for the Oculus Rift Dev Kit 2 (DK2). The package adds SMI’s eye-tracking 295 to the device; it is supplied with a C/C++ SDK and support for VR engines such as Unity and Vizard.
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