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AUO, NVIDIA, and ASUS ROG Jointly Announce the World’s Highest* Refresh Rate 500Hz Esports Monitor

AU Optronics Corp., NVIDIA, and ASUS ROG have jointly announced the release of the world’s highest* refresh rate panel, a 24.1-inch ROG Swift 500Hz Esports monitor. By combining AUO’s gaming dedicated E-TN (Esports TN) technology with NVIDIA Reflex Analyzer, the new 500Hz panel ensures that games deliver images that are clear, sharp, and smooth for … Read more

DSCC Looks at Smartphone Display Market and Technology Outlook

What They Say DSCC published a substantial blog article that summarised the smartphone session at the recent SID/DSCC Business Conference during Display Week. The blog article also covered a talk by OTI Lumionics that looked in detail at the challenges of under-display-cameras. His conclusions were: 2022 will be a challenging year OLEDs will outperform LCD … Read more

Samsung Reports Breakthrough on Blue Phosphorescent OLED Lifetime

What They Say DSCC published a blog (registration required) that dug into information from the Display Week Symposium from Samsung Display that describes “Exceptionally Stable Blue Phosphorescent OLEDs”. (paper 40.2). The blog said that “In improving efficiency and reducing power consumption, a control of out-coupling has been the greatest contributor to efficiency improvement. Samsung has … Read more

DSCC Summarises Parts of the Business Conference

What They Say DSCC reported the highlights of the TV market and emerging technologies sections of the SID/DSCC Business Conference (registration required). As well as the overall shape of what DSCC calls the ‘Advanced TV’ market, there were talks by Jason Hartlove of Nanosys and Chirag Shah of Samsung Display who covered QDs and QD-OLEDs, … Read more

Apple has Patented Several New HMD-related Technologies

What They Say PatentlyApple reported that Apple has been granted a US patent for a system to cool head-mounted displays. The aim of the patent is to get over the problem that the lightweight materials often used in HMDs (e.g. plastics) tend to have less thermally conductive properties. Separately, VRTimes has reported that Apple has … Read more

Nvidia Creates Slim VR Glasses

What They Say Nvidia has worked with scientists at Stanford University to develop holographic glasses that are just 2.5mm thick, but get over the vergence/accommodation conflict issue as they seem to be genuinely holographic. The scientists have recognised that the small current eye box is just 2.3mm, but believe that this could be increased to … Read more

Links Week Starting 23rd May 2022

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. (I’m still catching up after Display Week!) Global TV Shipments Expected to Fall This YearGlobal TV Shipments Expected to Fall This Year Almost 3,300 LED Cabinets Create Huge … Read more

Sigmaintell Research|Global TV Panel demand shrinks more than expected, Structural Production Cuts and Product Upgrades are good strategies

What They Say Sigmaintell Consulting of China confirmed the view expressed at the SID/DSCC Business Conference that the global TV industry is in a ‘cold winter’ phase with ‘the spring’ still far away. Market demand remains weak even in China, because of the impact of the epidemic and subsequent lockdowns. The Chinese market was initially … Read more