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New IDC Spending Guide Forecasts Double-Digit Growth for Investments in Edge Computing

Worldwide spending on edge computing is expected to be $176 billion in 2022, an increase of 14.8% over 2021. Enterprise and service provider spending on hardware, software, and services for edge solutions is forecast to sustain this pace of growth through 2025 when spending will reach nearly $274 billion, according to the International Data Corporation … Read more

Vizio SmartCast Now has 15M Users

What They Say At a Needham conference, Vizio said that it now has 15 million active SmartCast users up from 12 million in March 2021. The CFO, Adam Townsend, said that more than 85% to 90% of the time, Vizio users are accessing content directly via the SmartCast platform. A growing part of Vizio’s smart … Read more

Links Week Starting 17th January 2022

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. Here’s a nice VFX show reel if you like this kind of thing Colors: Where did they go? An investigation. (an interesting look at the development of colour … Read more

Next Step Towards Sustainability – Philips Monitors are Now Certified according to TCO Certified, Generation 9

MMD, the leading display specialist and brand license partner for Philips monitors, acquired the TCO Certified, generation 9 for its range of highly-sustainable products. As one of the first manufacturers that received the certification, Philips monitors has a record number of 64 certified displays on the market on the day TCO Certified, generation 9 was … Read more

Varjo Brings World’s First Human-Eye Resolution VR/XR Cloud Streaming Capability to Its Reality Cloud Platform 

Varjo, the industry-leading provider of professional-grade VR/XR hardware and software, announced the addition of cloud streaming to its Varjo Reality Cloud platform, marking progress toward the company’s vision of bringing real-life collaboration into the metaverse. With the new service, select early access users can deploy virtual and mixed reality applications and experiences entirely from the … Read more

The Green Planet AR experience opening in London

What They Say There is a new AR experience called ‘The Green Planet AR Experience’ that is due to open on February 11th in London. The event was reated by Factory 42 with BBC Studios, and inspired by the Natural History Unit landmark series and exploits EE’s 5G service. Visitors to the free to attend … Read more

Ultraleap Launches Next-Gen Camera to Complete the Transition from Touch to Gesture

Ultraleap, the world leader in hand tracking and mid-air haptics technologies, launches their 3Di camera ahead of NRF Retail’s Big Show in New York. Designed specifically for Out-of-Home (OOH) and retail use cases, this camera complements Ultraleap’s TouchFree solution and enables easy integration for both retrofits and new kiosk designs. Ultraleap’s TouchFree solution now comprises … Read more

Tuning Judder

In December, the famed video processing company Pixelworks introduced TrueCut software, and at CES 2022 announced a partnership with TCL. TCL’s 98-inch TV introduced at CES will support TrueCut. At a meeting in the company’s suite near the Las Vegas Convention Center, Pixelworks’s EVP of Technology Richard Miller called TrueCut “game breaking.” The software platform … Read more