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CEDIA Expo 2014 Overview

Large Displays, Projection – The 2014 edition of CEDIA Expo held September 10-13 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver CO, USA was a good example of the manner in which consumer electronics products and systems are evolving in new and sophisticated ways. CEDIA, the Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association, is focused on the … Read more

Barco Escape, a New Multi-Screen Theatrical Format, to Debut September 19

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Digital Cinema – At CinemaCon last March in Las Vegas, Barco debuted a new theatrical concept that featured three screens in the theater – a main screen and two side screens. The idea was to offer a more immersive experience, which they showed with some compelling content. Now, Barco Escape is ready to roll out … Read more

Microsoft Perceptive Pixel on the Move

perceptive pixel launch July 2012 shown running Win8, Source: AllthingsD.com

PPI Perceptive Pixel Display July 2012 shown running Win8, Source: AllthingsD.com Emerging Technology – Down Australia way it’s the end of a long winter and coming into spring, a fitting place for news of a resurgence of the somewhat dormant Perceptive Pixel Inc. (PPI) now owned by Microsoft (MS.) There we heard the recent revelation … Read more

IMID by the Numbers

EXCO waits for IMID 2014 to begin. (Photo: Ken Werner)

Technology – The Korean Information Display Society’s International Meeting on Information Display (IMID) has been held each year since 2001, mostly in Daegu, South Korea — a large commercial city known, a tour guide said, for apples, beautiful women and being the place where Samsung got its start. The venue this year, as it has … Read more

Neuroscience Altering the Way Moving Images are Produced

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Technology – One of the human factors that has always been extremely relevant to display technology is the way that images are perceived in the brain. In addition to the art and technology of producing static and moving pictures, the neuroscience of perception has slowly caught up in film and video production. Recent studies, however, … Read more