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Moody Chooses Christie’s Laser

Christie’s 6P laser projector has been installed at the MG3D Laser Theatre at Moody Garden, Texas. D3D Cinema and Moody Gardens say that it is the first institution in the world to feature such a system, with dual DCI-4k 3D projectors throwing images onto an 18.3m x 24.4m screen. Light levels exceed 16 foot-lamberts in … Read more

Moving Toward a New User Interface

Jonathan Josephson of Quantum Interface (Austin, Texas) presented an ambitiously titled Motion Tutorial talk at the 2014 Touch Gesture Motion Conference (October 28-30, Austin, Texas) entitled, History of the World of Interfaces and Interactions (but primarily motions). Quantum Interface (QI) describes itself in a press release concerning the firm’s participation in TGM 2014 stating: “the … Read more

Multi-function Display Shipments Rising, Says DisplaySearch

Demand for multi-function TFT-LCD displays in the automotive instrument cluster is accelerating. According to DisplaySearch, shipments of these products will grow 48% YoY in 2014, to reach 30.2 million units. Further growth will see shipments rise to 50 million units by 2018. “Formerly a concept found only in science fiction…automatic electronic control of automobiles is … Read more

NEC Calibrates With Light Illusion

NEC Display Solutions of America has entered into a collaboration with UK-based Light Illusion. The aim of the work is to enable native calibration for NEC’s colour-critical monitors, through the Lightspace CMS display calibration system. Calibration is managed differently between different markets. “Our MultiSync PA Series customers in these [TV, film and broadcast] markets will … Read more

NEC Result 05/11/2014

NEC Corporation returned to profit in the second quarter of its current fiscal year, reporting a net profit of ¥22.6 billion ($196.6 million), which compares with a net loss in the same period a year earlier of ¥4.7 billion ($40.9 million), while turnover declined 2.3% to ¥726.1 billion ($6.3 billion) from ¥743 billion ($6.5 billion). … Read more

NEC Rewards its Partners

NEC has announced the winners of the 2014/15 Display Trends Forum partner awards in Cannes. The company awarded Best Volume Distributor to Ingram Micro (Germany); Best Projector Sales to Midwich (UK); Strongest AV partner of the Year to Datavision (Germany); Best Achievement in the Education Sector to Ligraand Know K (Italy); Best Vertical Project to … Read more

New LG Mobile Devices Under Development

According to Android Authority, LG is developing a G Flex 2 smartphone to be shown at CES 2015. The handset will have a high-resolution display, using a plastic-based OLED. It will have a smaller form factor than the original, and be more flexible. A ‘self-healing’ plastic coating, a feature of the original G Flex, will … Read more

Nimble Sense Hopes to Bring Hand Gestures into Virtual Reality

Nimble VR (San Francisco, CA) is developing a depth sensing camera that captures the user’s hand and finger positions and motions such that they can be input to a virtual reality headset. Called, Nimble Sense, the system enables applications that allow the user to control and manipulate virtual objects and to do so without the … Read more

No Front Glass for Kyocera

Kyocera’s new 7″ TFT-LCD display modules both feature capacitive on-cell touch, and are only differentiated from each other in the touch interface. The TCG070W VLRPC-GD117 addresses touch via I²C, while the TCG070W VLRPC-GD118 addresses via USB. Both modules feature five touch points and shielded cables, but no front glass. They are designed for lightweight applications … Read more

November Large Panel Shipments up 5% YoY

A total of 22.3 million large panels were shipped in November, from Taiwan’s four major panel manufacturers. This was just under 1% lower than the previous month but represented a year on year improvement of 5.2%. The total number of panels shipped so far this year from Taiwan was 239.8 million, a 2% increase from … Read more

Oculus Rift: Does the Emperor Have Any Clothes?

Since 2012, Display Central has published roughly 60 articles that discuss the Oculus Rift. I’ve reviewed most of them and not one of them mentions the terrible image quality produced by the head mounted virtual reality (VR) system. A more common type of headline is “Oculus Rift at SXSW: Is Virtual Reality the Holy Grail … Read more