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What They Say Gartner issued a press release with its forecasts for PCs, tablets and smartphones and added to the gloom by forecasting volume declines of 9.5%, 9.0% and 7.1% with an expectation of 2.065 billion units over the year, down 7.6%. Looking at smartphones alone, rather than all phones, the decline was 5.8%. Regionally, … Read more
Xvisio Technology Co. announced and demonstrated live SeerLens™ One, its first mass production AR glasses product for the enterprise for the North America market. SeerLens™ One is a USB tethered cross-platform AR glasses with on-board vSLAM* engine based on the Epson VM40 free form prism optics. It can be paired up with PC, mobile phone … Read more
What They Say ARtillery Intelligence still remains positive about the potential and growth of AR markets and published its ‘cautiously optimistic’ forecast with 33% revenue growth forecast for 2022 and 27% in 2023 as the market for all revenue heads towards $36 billion by 2026. What We Think This positive view was slightly against the … Read more
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
What They Say AR contact lens developer, Mojo Vision, has demonstrated its contact lens in use and the firm’s CEO is reported to have worn the device for around an hour. This is said to have been one of the first actual tests of a device. The wearer said it felt ‘very similar to a … Read more
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
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
Do you wonder what’s trending these days in the education arena? My next four articles will spotlight some of the most recent post-pandemic trends now taking shape in K-12 and/or university settings. Some of these might be a real surprise to our readers, so to tantalize your curiosity, allow me to tease each of these … Read more
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
What They Say The Elec reports that Samsung Display (SDC) and Ulvac have different views over the likely price for a deposition machine with SDC wanting to pay $307 million while Ulvac is said to want $540 to $615 million. SDC has been considering building a G8.5 fab for some time, although a decision on … Read more
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
Okay, so we’re halfway through the year and movie house ticket sales have continued to rise, but no analyst we’ve heard from thinks the US box office numbers will surpass – or even get close to – 2019’s $11.4 billion. Maybe $8-$9 billion if the stars align … perfectly. “We are seeing a globalization of … Read more
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