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Radiant Vision Systems Announces New XRE Lens Solution with Electronic Focus for Near-Eye Display Testing

March 25, 2022 by Bob Raikes

Radiant Vision Systems, a leading provider of visual test and measurement solutions for light sources and displays, announces the release of its new XRE Lens for near-eye display testing of extended reality (XR) headsets and smart glasses. Utilizing patent-pending technology that features electronic focus and configuration options, the XRE Lens offers flexibility for evaluating visual … Read more

AVOD market to reach US$260 billion annual revenue by 2025 – Omdia

March 25, 2022 by Bob Raikes

What They Say DTV Europe has forecast that the Advertising-supported streaming market will hit revenues of €259 billion by 2025, quoting Omdia as the source. The firm expects revenues of $174 billion this year, but with strong growth to the end of the period. The forecast also covers linearTV and SVOD subscription revenues as well … Read more

Strategy Analytics: OLED Drives the Smartphone Display Panel Market in 2021

March 25, 2022 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Strategy Analytics released its estimate for the revenue shares of the main panel makers in OLEDs for smartphones in 2021. It had SDC at 49% of the market which it judged at $46 billion, which was more than 5% growth. Jeffrey Mathews , Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics commented, “OLED display panels … Read more

E Ink Launches the Latest Generation of Their Full Color ePaper Module – E Ink Gallery™ Plus

March 25, 2022 by Artem Alekseenko

E Ink, the originator, pioneer, and global commercial leader in digital paper technology, announced the launch of the latest generation of their Advanced Color ePaper (ACeP) platform, E Ink Gallery Plus. This next generation, full color ePaper module, has a color gamut ideally reaching 60,000, an improvement over the earlier generations. E Ink Gallery Plus … Read more

The PS5’s Variable Refresh Rate feature is coming soon

March 25, 2022 by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Verge reported that Sony is planning to add a VRR feature “in the coming months”. The system is said to be able to support the feature even if games have not been optimised for it, although it can be disabled if it causes artefacts. What We Think This is a good … Read more

Asia Pacific OTT Revenues to Climb by $20 Billion

March 25, 2022 by Artem Alekseenko

OTT TV episodes and movies revenues for 22 Asia Pacific countries will reach $52 billion in 2027; up by 62% from the $32 billion recorded in 2021. From the $20 billion additional revenues, China will add $3 billion, India $3 billion, South Korea $3 billion and Japan $5 billion. Indian revenues will more than double. … Read more

UST Integrates Ultraleap Tech To Power Faster Checkout Experiences

March 24, 2022 by Artem Alekseenko

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

March 24, 2022 by Artem Alekseenko

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

March 24, 2022 by Bob Raikes

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

March 24, 2022 by Bob Raikes

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

March 24, 2022 by Artem Alekseenko

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

March 23, 2022 by Artem Alekseenko

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