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What They Say Tianma announced that it is to proceed with a plan to invest $5.18 billion in a new G8.6 LCD fab in Xiamen, China. The company itself said that it would start construction later this year with production starting and Phase 1 mass production by the second half of 2024. Final capacity will … Read more
DispelixTM (Espoo), the acknowledged leader in see-through waveguide displays for AR and MR wearables, announced it is partnering with Avegant (San Mateo), developers of miniaturized LED-based LCoS light engine technologies for Augmented Reality (AR) glasses. The results of this partnership will see Dispelix’s nanotech-enhanced LED waveguides optimized at both a materials- and manufacturing-level for ideal … Read more
ViewSonic Corp., a leading global provider of visual solutions, launches the award-winning ColorPro™ professional-grade VP2776 monitor. Crafted with precise color in mind, it features an exclusive ColorPro Wheel™, which includes a built-in color calibrator for long-term color accuracy, and a wide Mac-compatible color gamut. “When it comes to design, color is king, and calibration is … Read more
SmallHD announces the launch of the Cine 18 4K High-Bright Monitor, a lightweight, rugged, daylight-viewable production monitor featuring everything needed for the modern 4K workflow. SmallHD’s Cine 18 fills that critical size gap between the Cine 13 and Cine 24 in the SmallHD 4K monitor line-up, providing a highly portable, daylight-viewable, 4K monitoring solution in … Read more
Pixotope Technologies AS, the leader in live augmented reality and virtual production solutions, announced the acquisition of Cologne, Germany-based TrackMen Gmbh, the expert one-stop-shop for real-time 3D camera and talent tracking in the media industry for 25 years. The acquisition is a major step forward for the media industry, bringing together a complete Virtual Production … Read more
You’d have to have been underground helping to recover pot-holers or trapped miners not to have seen the flood of news this week following a plummet in the stock price of Netflix after it announced that it’s subscriber base had dropped. It looks like an inflection point. Netflix has had a long history of success … Read more
What They Say BMW has unveiled its 2023 i7 top-of-the-range electric vehicle and revealed a drop down 30.9″ ‘8k’ touch-enabled OLED display. You can buy the car for only €135,900 ($147,384) and it will be delivered in November (although the display is an optional extra). The BMW Theater Screen has resolution of 7680 x 2160. … Read more
What They Say Although it’s promoted as a TV, TFT Central reviewed (subscription required) the LG 42C2 as a desktop monitor. The first challenge was that the stand does not allow any tilt and can be hard to use close up without this. Although it’s wide, the stand doesn’t take up much space on the … Read more
Just in case you don’t know it, I live in Silicon Valley and have worked in the technology industry like forever. It’s good because you get to see new things born and grow rapidly or die … “quickly.” It’s bad because you’ve lived with the stuff “forever” (O.K., six months) and know that everyone knows … Read more
Ahead of NAB next week, Parks Associates announced the latest update of its Consumer Insights Dashboard, an ongoing service that tracks adoption of consumer electronic devices and services through its quarterly surveys of 10,000 US internet households. The firm’s Consumer Electronics Dashboard, published biannually, reveals that out of the top five brands, Sony showed clear … Read more
Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. Amazon is quietly developing a ‘new-to-world’ AR product Dayang D3-Edit 5 integrates intoPIX JPEG XS technology for ultimate performances (especially in 8K) ‘World’s tallest holograms’ bring TV … Read more
What They Say UploadVR reports a Chinese analyst, who has been a good source of information in the past, as saying that Pico (owned by ByteDance, which also owns TikTok) plans to get its next headset to market before the ‘Cambria’ from Meta. The current Pico Neo 3 is similar to Meta’s Quest 2 in … Read more
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