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Universal Display Corporation Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021 Financial Results

Universal Display Corporation, enabling energy-efficient displays and lighting with its UniversalPHOLED® technology and materials, reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2021. “2021 was a year of growth, R&D milestone achievements, new customer agreements, continued market recognition, and diversification and expansion of our global manufacturing footprint with PPG,” said … Read more

Omdia: Sharp Drop in 2021 Amazon Alexa Shipments Drove Smart Speaker Market “Correction”

A sharp drop in shipments of the Amazon Alexa drove a “correction” in the U.S. smart speaker market in 2021, with sales resuming a more normalized growth rate after record shipments in 2020, according to Omdia’s Smart Speaker Quarter Report – 4Q21. Further analysis from the report show the U.S. smart speaker market ended 2021 … Read more

India PC Market Shipped a Record 14.8 Million Units in 2021, According to IDC

The India traditional PC market, inclusive of desktops, notebooks, and workstations, delivered a strong year with shipment growth of 44.5% year-over-year (YoY) in 2021 (Jan-Dec), according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. While the notebook category was the volume driver with shipments reaching 11.6 million units, … Read more

Mercedes-Benz, Turkey Selects RealWear for Large Scale Deployment Across All 56 Service Centres with Microsoft Teams

RealWear, the world’s leading provider of assisted reality solutions for frontline industrial workers, announced that Mercedes-Benz Otomotiv, based in Turkey, has selected and deployed RealWear’s rugged wearable devices across all of its 56 authorised service centres. Prior to its countrywide enterprise wearable deployment, the process included hundreds of in-person trips, emails, shared photos and videos … Read more

Allente Launches Next-gen Android TV Service on Satellite, IPTV and OTT Thanks to Hybrid KAON STB and 3SS UX

3 Screen Solutions (3SS) and KAONMEDIA announce that Nordic pay-TV giant has launched its next-generation super-aggregated TV services for Scandinavia on an Android TV STB, supporting direct-to-home (DTH) satellite, IPTV and OTT. Powerful hybrid KAON BCM72180 PVR STBs (set-top box) will be available to Allente’s over 1 million subscribers, enabled by KAON middleware, NAGRA Media … Read more

DSCC Highlights Glass Growth

What They Say DSCC published a blog post (free registration needed) that included extracts from its latest display glass report and reported that glass shipments increased by 13% in 2021 to a record level of 687 million m², with 174.5 million m² shipped in Q4. Capacity was flat in Q4 2021 at 180 million m². … Read more

Analyst: Are the console wars over?

What They Say Market researcher Dataxis released its estimates of console sales by Sony and Microsoft in the ‘console wars’, with the result (17 million for Sony, 12 million for Microsoft) suggesting that Sony is pulling ahead of its US rival. The firm also said that the PlayStation 5 also overtook its competitor in two … Read more

Links Week Ending 25th February 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. (Apologies – this should have been published last Friday, but slipped through the net!) Motion capture rig removes the need to wear a suit ViewSonic XG250: Gaming … Read more

Researchers Taken Facial Recognition in VR to a New Level

What They Say Researchers from Australia, New Zealand and India have used facial recognition technology to use users’ expressions to trigger actions in virtual environments, potentially reducing the need for hand-held controllers. Smiling, frowning and jaw clenching can trigger specific actions. The expressions are detected using an EEG headset. Professor Billinghurst of the University of … Read more

BOE Develops 8K 120 Hz Panel

What They Say The 8K Association contacted BOE to get more information about a 110″ 8K 120Hz LCD that had been developed. The article points out that the panel uses the same technology as a recent demo of a 27″ 500Hz panel. (World’s Fastest Gaming Monitor Hits 500 Hz Refresh Rate). The backplane is IGZO … Read more