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UST Integrates Ultraleap Tech To Power Faster Checkout Experiences

UST, a leading digital transformation solutions company specialising in retail, has integrated Ultraleap hand tracking to provide touchless interaction for their end-to-end retail solution – UST Vision Checkout. UST’s frictionless solution is a self-checkout POS that uses computer vision to identify SKUs. UST has integrated Ultraleap’s hand tracking hardware and award-winning TouchFree application into this … Read more

MICLEDI Microdisplays Announces Agreement with GlobalFoundries to Collaborate on MicroLED Displays for AR Glasses

MICLEDI Microdisplays, a leading developer of microLED arrays for augmented reality (AR) glasses, announced a manufacturing collaboration with GlobalFoundries (GF) to enable AR glasses to achieve the brightness, resolution, power, size, and economies of scale needed to become affordable for consumers. Under the agreement, MICLEDI’s solution will be combined with GF’s 22FDX® feature-rich platform that … Read more

Links Week Ending 25th March 2022

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. Steve Wilhite, the inventor of the moving computer images known as GIFs, died from Covid. His achievement was memorialized online by, well, GIFs (NYT) Nike Has ‘fake … Read more

Links Week Ending 1st April 2022

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. I haven’t been watching audio closely, so hadn’t noticed that HP Inc had bought Poly (Plantronics + Polycom) for $1.7 billion. Does anyone else remember the Plantronics … Read more

Africa’s Smartphone Market Sees Shipments Decline Amid Global Supply Shortages, but Growth Is Tipped for 2022

Newly released data from IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows that Africa’s overall mobile phone market suffered a year-on-year (YoY) decline of 11.3% in Q4 2021 to total 48.6 million units. The feature phone market was down 14.3% to 27.1 million units, while smartphone shipments declined 7.1% to 21.5 million units. Africa’s major smartphone … Read more

Himax Introduces Industry First 288Hz 8K TV TCON Solution

Himax Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier and fabless manufacturer of display drivers and other semiconductor products, announced the Company has made an exceptional breakthrough with the introduction of an industry first 288Hz 8K TV TCON (8K TV Timing Controller) solution for the ultra-high-resolution 8K, gaming TV market. By collaborating with major world-class TV panel makers, … Read more

Jon Peddie Research: It’s National 3D Day! Time to Celebrate Stereo 3D Technology

Did you know there is a Thank God It’s Monday Day? It was January 3. Blue Monday? January 17. No Brainer Day? February 27. National Awkward Moments Day? For many of us, that is nearly every day. Officially, it is March 18—which seems fitting as it comes the day after St. Patrick’s Day, when the … Read more

Micledi Collaborating with GlobalFoundries.

What They Say Micledi Microdisplays of Leuven in Belgium said that it has done a deal with GlobalFoundries (GF) for the chipmaker to integrate the Micledi microLED arrays with the GF 22FDX platform. The GF chips will provide image processing, driver and control functions using wafer-to-wafer hybrid bonding. The company will develop the combined devices … Read more

Finding Nimo

What They Say Wired talked to an Indian company, Nimo Planet, that is developing AR glasses that are intended to act as possible replacements for notebook displays, although they don’t need to be tethered to a system. They can support up to six virtual screens. Despite the bulky look of the displays, battery life is … Read more

Vestel Announces The Launch Of Its New Interactive IFX Series

Vestel Visual Solutions has launched its next-generation IFX Series of 4K interactive displays, designed to offer a new level of engagement from classroom to boardroom. Available in three sizes, the 65”, 75” and 86” touch enabled UHD displays meet the needs of businesses across a number of sectors. “Offering a tailored technology solution for both … Read more