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Mobile Displays, User Interface – Recent announcements by Immersion Corporation and Apple show that haptic feedback will continue to play a role in mobile and wearable devices. Haptic enhancements of mobile handset user interfaces that provide users with tactile feedback when operating their devices have been a feature of Android OS based devices for some … Read more
Beyond HD – At CES earlier this year, Vizio announced its new P-series of UltraHD Smart TVs. On September 23rd, the product line was launched, with the TVs starting to ship immediately. I had a chance to see these products at an event Vizio held in New York City. The P-series of TVs have a … Read more
Mobile – In our last instalment on Apple Hybrid iBeacon and NFC (Near Field Communications) we said the company is once again demonstrating a canny sense of identifying Gateway Technologies that can empower (and further enrich) its army of code developers who in turn empower us with the unintended consequences of amazing creativity – all over again”. At … Read more
Wearables – A new Information Week Reader Survey is flying in the face of more traditional market research firms stating that by its reckoning, more than two-thirds (66.8% from the 585 sample pool) responded Nix to the idea of an Apple or any other brand of Smart Watch. Of that group, the magazine’s ad hoc survey said about … Read more
Broadcast and Distribution – Think of this as Part 3 of my recent series of Display Dailys on expanded color gamuts and the future of video encoding. The series started, innocently enough, with Canon’s support of the BT.2020 standard and continued with how Nanosys quantum dots can almost meet the BT.2020 color gamut standard. In that second article, I mentioned … Read more
4K – Direct TV has announced that they are planning on starting 4K or UltraHD TV broadcasts this year. Via Satellite, a publication focusing completely on the satellite broadcast sector, interviewed Michael White, chairman, president and CEO of Direct TV about the support of UltraHD TV. Direct TV stated that they are looking into supporting UltraHD transmissions in … Read more
PC – Max Smolaks from the Tech Week Europe reports on the highlights of Michael Dell’s speech at Dell’s Solutions Summit in Brussels. Just a year after Dell delisted from the stock market, many wondered which direction Dell would take going forward. With the company still offering PCs to consumers, it seems that little has … Read more
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
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