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What They Say Meta appears to have made a couple of changes to its device plans, with the Portal video conferencing product moving from the consumer to be developed for the B2B market. The firm is reported to have shipped 800K units last year, but had not had the success that it has had with … Read more
A few days ago, I mentioned a really novel looking display that I saw from Innolux at Display Week, so I thought I’d dig a bit more into it Naoki Sumi from Innolux presented on the Kirameki Display that he described as having ‘Natural Texture and Natural 3D’. There was no paper presented during Display … Read more
What They Say Quoting Omdia as the source, the Elec said that display revenue in 2022 is expected to drop 15% year-on-year to US$133.18 billion with LCD revenues falling 32% from $38.3 billion to $25.8 billion, despite an increase in area shipments of 2%. The article quotes the following target TV panel shipment changes: BOE … Read more
What They Say Samsung will launch a new Microsoft Xbox application to stream 100 games on its 2022 SmartTVs at the end of June and only in some countries. Sets must be running Tizen 6.5. Streaming performance is limited to FullHD at 60P and users will have to subscribe to an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate … Read more
The I-Zone is always an interesting feature of the Display Week Exhibition. The Committee that runs the area, which is populated by research efforts and start-ups, chooses a winner and an honouree. This year’s winner was Porotech – and I’ll return to discussing its offerings, but the honouree was 6P Color Inc for a multi-primary … Read more
What They Say Despite the global gloom in the smartphone market, Germany seems to still be seeing growth. The GfU said that the re-opening of specialist retail stores had helped the sales of smartphones to grow 4.5% in Q1 to more than five million with revenues up 16.9% to more than €3 billion as ASPs … Read more
What They Say AUO reported via an email to us that it’s revenue for May 2022 was down 31.6% YoY to $743 million, but up by 8.6% on a monthly basis. Area was up to 1.76 million m² in May, an increase of 11.3% on April. That highlights the continuing pressure on LCD pricing. For … Read more
Headwinds from lockdowns, war, and inflation are the leading factors behind slowing demand for PCs and tablets. According to a new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker, global shipments of traditional PCs will fall 8.2% year over year in 2022 to 321.2 million units. Similarly, the forecast for … Read more
What They Say IDC expects PC shipments to be weak this year, falling by 8.2% from 2021 to 321.2 million units. Tablets are expected to decline by 6.2% to 158 million units. That will still leave shipments above pre-pandemic levels. Commercial demand remains robust and there is still uptake in emerging markets that will help … Read more
What They Say Atomos has a new 5″ touchscreen device, the Zato Connect, that is intended to capture and manage video from HDMI or USB UVC cameras (USB UVC cameras send video in YUV format and transmit the pixel data over USB as uncompressed YUV or as compressed MJPEG frames). The display can monitor and … Read more
What They Say The Information’s Reality Check reports that HoloLens co-creator Alex Kipman is to depart from Microsoft after allegations of misconduct. The hardware teams will be absorbed by the “Windows + Devices” organization while the software side will be integrated into the Microsoft Teams organisation. What We Think It seems that the loss of … Read more
A team of researchers headed by Jonghyun Kim along with colleagues at Nvidia Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) and collaborators at Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA) are developing a holographic display in a glasses-like form factor. A recent article by the team on this topic was entitled “Holographic Glasses for Virtual Reality.” It was published in … Read more
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