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Meta’s Dominance in the VR Market will be Challenged in the Coming Years, According to IDC

Global shipments for virtual reality (VR) headsets jumped 241.6% during the first quarter of 2022 (1Q22) compared to the same period last year, according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Augmented and Virtual Reality Headset Tracker. Continued demand and easing supply helped drive the category forward though it is worth … Read more

iOS Tablets Chips Away at Android Dominance in Q1 22

What They Say Counterpoint Research said that Apple is ‘closing the gap’ with Android tablets as the market reaches saturation and with global uncertainty and negative purchasing intent (see Gartner Forecasts Worldwide PC Shipments to Decline 9.5% in 2022). Although Apple was down in unit terms in Q1, it rose in share to 38%, up … Read more

Global Smartphone Sales Fall Below 100Mn Units in May

The Global Smartphone Market sales declined 4% Month on Month (MoM) and 10% Year on Year (YoY) in May 2022 to 96 million units, according to Counterpoint Research’s Market Pulse Service. This was the second consecutive month of MoM decline and the 11th consecutive month of YoY sales decline. Even after a “V” shaped recovery … Read more

Etulipa Shows the First Full Color ePaper Display Designed for Outdoor Use

Etulipa, announces the start of an evaluation period, with the first full color display based on its innovative Electro Wetting Display (EWD) technique. The evaluations are conducted at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven and in Brookings, SD USA together with Daktronics Inc. world’s industry leader in designing and manufacturing of large video displays. The EWD … Read more

Arm Adds Ray Tracing to Mobile GPUs

What They Say Arm has a new GPU, the Immortalis (how modest!) that offers hardware ray-tracing for the first time in one of the firm’s designs. It also claims a 15% boost in performance from its latest GPUs. Last year’s Mali-G710 in the Mediatek Dimensity 9000 chipset had software support only. In a blog post … Read more

Links Week Ending 1st July 2022

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the end of this week. Plugable USB-C Triple 4K Display Docking Station review: The best around Rust Never Sleeps … and Neither Do Display Manufacturers (Pete Putman rounds up developments in OLED) LG launches … Read more

PMA Research Tracking Shows Top-Selling Projectors in May

PMA Research, the worldwide market information experts on front projectors, has posted highlights from their most recent Projector Tracking Service results to the “Top-Selling Projectors” area of their website. For more than 25 years now, PMA Research has collected monthly sell-through data from leading U.S. projector dealers, retailers, web resellers, and distributors. Their Tracking Service … Read more

Tencent Video Selects NetRange Smart TV Solutions to Power International Expansion of WeTV

NetRange MMH GmbH, the global provider of white-labelled, turnkey Smart TV and OTT ecosystems, announced that it has been selected by Tencent Video to power the international expansion of its WeTV service by reaching new Smart TV and connected device users through the NetRange Smart TV App Store. This agreement enables WeTV to leverage NetRange’s … Read more