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Mobile Displays – For some time we have been talking about sapphire as the next great thing to make the next generation smartphones much better and nearly indestructible. With Apple announcing the iPhone 6 line without any sapphire cover glass, many thought that sapphire is after all only an afterthought or marketing gimmick. Of course, … Read more
Mobile Display – Apple’s new iPhone6 Plus LCD represents mobile display state of the art, in a technology that dominates mainstream mobile devices. The panel is a new 5.5″ diagonal IPS AMLCD using an LTPS backplane that matches or breaks new records in virtually every display performance category according to the recent report released yesterday. … Read more
Mobile Display – The newest Apple iPhone6 marks a shift back to a focus on display quality for the company, so says DisplayMate.com founder and resident expert Dr. Ray Soneira in his latest Shoot-out round of lab tests. The findings confirm the Apple iPhone6 marketing, touting its focus on technical display enhancements that include photo … Read more
Augmented Reality – Qualcomm has created a pretty good position for themselves in the smartphone market where they provide processors and chip sets to a wide range of manufacturers. Qualcomm wants to extend its strong market position to virtual and augmented reality smartglass solutions. With both device types looking at Android OS as the basis … Read more
Augmented Reality – The Osterhout Design Group (ODG) was in the news some time ago for selling augmented reality related IP to Microsoft. Whoever thought that this was a way for ODG to get out of AR and try to recoup its investment in augmented reality headset development, was plain wrong. ODG has announced two … Read more
Mobile Displays – Todacell is an international advertising network with offices in the US, Europe and Israel. The company found that there were some inconsistencies in advertising response which they could not explain -what worked in one part of the world would not work in another. The story was broken to a number of advertising-centric publications … Read more
Home Entertainment – Ooyala has released the Q2’2014 Global Video Index Report, indicating the rise of mobile video viewing. Ooyala is a streaming video company that combines technology solutions with data analysis to provide a more successful implementation to their customers. Their latest report looks at the video views via streaming and what portion is accessed on … Read more
We spoke with Pat Griffis (Executive Director, Technology Strategy, Office of the CTO at Dolby) and a Committee Chair of SMPTE who told us about the aims of Dolby Vision in delivering “better and faster pixels”. (apologies for the quality of the video, especially towards the end – the sheer brightness of the Dolby prototype … Read more
Large Display, Video Wall – SiliconCore a developer of LED-based video wall displays launched its 1.50 mm LED pitch, 260″ diagonal, 4K large format display for the home entertainment industry at CEDIA Expo 2014. SiliconCore’s 19ft x 11ft 4K LED display was perched above partner Crestron’s large CEDIA Expo booth as shown in the photo … Read more
Projection Displays – At CEDIA Expo 2014 in Denver, CO, USA, Digital Projection exhibited two new 4K projectors. The new Insight 4K projector models are offered in laser and LED illuminated versions offering two different projection solutions for what the firm calls the “elite home entertainment” market. The laser illuminated version of the Insight 4K … Read more
We’ve posted an interview with Frederik Zilly of Fraunhofer IIS in Erlangen, who explained how the Fraunhofer is using multiple camera arrays to capture many in focus images of a scene with deep depth of field. By calculating disparity maps, the technique yields a “cloud” of optical data points. That cloud can then be processed … Read more
Digital Cinema – Back in early May, I wrote an article about the first public debut of Doug Trumbull’s new cinema capture solution call MAGI (First Screening of 4K 3D 120 fps Content Coming to Seattle Cinerama). At the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and at IBC, Trumbull again showed his first short film, UFOTOG, … Read more
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