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Asia Pacific AR/VR Market for Headsets Grew by 60% in 2021, According to Latest IDC Report

What They Say IDC put out a release that highlighted that the market for AR/VR headsets grew by 60.8% in the Asia Pacific region last year and reached 2.19 million units. Chinese brands took more than 60% of the market, with dominance in the PRC market. Brand details were: DPVR led the overall AR/VR headset … Read more

TFT Central Looks at ViewSonic XG2432 – Blurbusters Certified

What They Say The TFT Central website had a look at a 240Hz 23.8″ FullHD ‘Fast IPS’ monitor, the XG2432 from ViewSonic which is reported to be the World’s first ‘Blur Busters Approved 2.0’ certified display. The monitor is based on a panel (M238FHM-NG2(+) from AUO. The monitor is certified for AMD ‘FreeSync Premium’ and … Read more

DSCC Looks at Panel Makers’ Finances

What They Say DSCC published a blog article (registration required) that highlighted the recent financial results of panel makers as it anticipates Q1 results arriving. The firm expects a continued downtrend in results. The chart showing results by maker highlighted that the higher prices of last year, ‘like a rising tide, lifted all boats’. DSCC … Read more

Innolux Ushers in the Age of the Metaverse with its Integrated Virtual and In-Person Experience

This year, Innolux Corporation will participate in one of the most highly anticipated annual events of the display industry, the 2022 Touch Taiwan Smart Display Exhibition, held from April 27 through 29 at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center. Innolux will kick off the exhibition with large-format and ultra-narrow splicing TV Wall and, in addition to … Read more

Blackmagic Design Announces New Cintel Scanner Light Source

Blackmagic Design announced a technology demonstration at NAB 2022 of a new high intensity light source for Cintel film scanners that lets customers get better quality from scanned film and much higher film scanning speeds. The new light source for Cintel Scanner will be demonstrated on the Blackmagic Design NAB 2022 booth #N302. The new … Read more

Links Week Starting 25th April 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. Pete takes an amusing dig at those that make portrait mode video – it’s worth the 75 seconds! ‘Data’ from Parks Associates about SmartTV was widely reported this … Read more

Harmonic Boosts Streaming Video Experiences with HDR10+

Harmonic announced that it has added support for HDR10+ technology to its VOS®360 cloud streaming platform and XOS software-based advanced media processing solution, enabling richer video experiences with punchier, more dynamic images. “Harmonic has always fostered innovations that fuel exceptional-quality viewing experiences,” said Shahar Bar, senior vice president, video products and corporate development, at Harmonic. … Read more

Innolux to showcase innovative display solutions at Touch Taiwan 2022

What They Say Innolux put out a press release that explained what the firm was planning to show at Touch Taiwan, but Digitimes added an item or two to that. Innolux said it would show: A ‘large size floating image displays’ A 2.08″ lightweight flagship VR with high contrast and high refresh and 2,016ppi to … Read more

Ennnostar Subsidiaries to Showcase LED Products at Touch Taiwan 2022

What They Say Digitimes said that Ennostar’s subsidiaries, Epistar, Lextar Electronics, Unikorn Semiconductor, Yenrich Technology and ProLight, will showcase LED products at Touch Taiwan 2022. Highlights will be: Epistar: COB (chip on board) and POB (package on board) miniLED backlighting for LCD TVs, automotive displays, monitors and notebooks as well as microLED chip-on-wafer technology and … Read more

Royole Still in Trouble

What They Say A report in the Chinese media suggests that flexible OLED developer Royole remains close to failing. (Flexible-screen Maker Royole Delays Employee Salaries) One of the directors has posted a blog that highlighted that it may not have enough funds and asked that government ‘at all levels’ actively helps the firm which, the … Read more

Holobricks: An Approach to Producing Large Holographic Displays

Daping Chu, within the Centre for Photonic Devices and Sensors at the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK), is leading a team that includes collaborators from Disney Research (Glendale, CA) in the development of a new method to produce large holographic displays. The approach used by the team is based on stacking so-called Holobrick devices. Two … Read more