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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
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
What They Say 9to5Google spotted that a plan for Chromebooks to support the Steam gaming service might be getting close as it said that Google now has timelines on the implementation. The site found a list of Chromebooks that is in a code change. Volta – Acer Chromebook 514 (CB514-1H) Volet – Acer Chromebook 515 … Read more
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
What They Say Sony continued with its continued reveals of the next PlayStation VR2 headset in a blog post. The headset will have a ‘single cord set-up’ and has an ‘orb’ look to match the controllers. There will be inside-out camera tracking and the headset is designed with vents to help to ventilate the unit … Read more
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
What They Say The Elec reports that Samsung is using the same OLED material set – described as the M11 set – on the Galaxy S22 Ultra as it used on the S21 Ultra in order to contain its costs. This set of materials is used on the iPhone 13, the paper said. Meanwhile, the … Read more
New research from Omdia has found that the average virtual pay TV user utilized 13.5 video services per month compared to the average video household* at 7.4 services during 2021. The latest outlook comes from Omdia’s TV & Online Video Intelligence Service, which provides subscription video on demand (SVOD), advertisement-based video (AVOD), and pay TV … Read more
What They Say Digitimes reported on the automotive market for displays and spoke to AUO which said that it is basing a lot of new projects in that sector on LTPS backplanes. The site quoted Sigmaintell Consulting as reporting 19 million LTPS automotive displays were shipped globally in 2021 for an on-year growth of 83.4%. … Read more
Today, I’m going to get away from the techie details that I love so much and indulge myself by talking about the Apple Mac and the way that Apple seems to have re-discovered its Mac mojo since the launch of its own silicon. Given that Apple has always been about innovation and new ideas, it’s … Read more
What They Say DSCC updated on its latest Foldable/Rollable Report and highlighted that panel shipments more than tripled to 10 million in 2021, up 207%. Smartphone shipments were 6% better than forecast at 7.98 million, up 254% because of the success of the Galaxy Z Flip 3, especially in Europe, where shipments were up 30% … Read more
The display world is full of specifications that relate to the response time of display devices. However, often it’s too easy to get fixated on one part of what is usually quite a complex system of interaction between, at the extremes, content and the photon or the ‘display pipeline’. Samsung seems to have got embroiled … Read more
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