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What They Say A writer at CNET, Scott Stein, wrote an interesting article about his experiences with smartglasses in 2021. He has tried devices from Lenovo, Nreal and Ray-Ban and despite being keen on the idea of smartglasses, he found that they were not practical. For example, he had special prescription lenses for the Ray-Ban … Read more
What They Say A paper in Light:Advanced Manufacturing that looked at the development of different communication and display technologies based on their bit rates. The article highlights the challenges that need to be overcome to allow the development of holography. It reviews issues of depth perception as well as the other factors involved, including some … Read more
In what is believed to be a first-of-a-kind installation, Mechdyne and Sony have put together a 32’x9’ 8K x 2K LED curved video wall featuring Sony’s Crystal LED technology. The Government aerospace client also requested a 3D capability for stereoscopic viewing. The 3D image adjusts to the viewer’s position and orientation to enable look-around and … Read more
PMA Research, the worldwide market information experts on front projectors, has posted highlights from their most recent Projector Tracking Service results to the “Top-Selling Projectors” area of their website. For more than 25 years now, PMA Research has collected monthly sell-through data from leading U.S. projector dealers, retailers, web resellers, and distributors. Their Tracking Service … Read more
Yesterday, I looked at the ergonomics of desktop monitors and why they are shaped the way they are (The Shape of (Monitor) Things to Come (Part 1)). Today, I’m going to dig a bit more into the supply side. As we saw yesterday, once a monitor gets to a certain height on the desk, the … Read more
What They Say Reuters reported that a Japanese academic has developed a system to use a transparent rollable film over a display to create a ‘lickable display’. The system uses 10 flavour canisters that spray combinations onto the film. The idea is for those that might want to combine interactive material with flavours – for … Read more
What They Say LG Display will not be at CES next month (even if it goes ahead) but has shown some concepts for entertainment devices using curved OLEDs, one of which uses three 55″ displays, with one curved at 500mm. What We Think I have heard that some executives at LG Display get quite grumpy … Read more
What They Say The Information’s Reality Check newsletter reported that a ‘string of executives’ have left Magic Leap in the last few months, including a number that joined earlier in the year after the arrival of Peggy Johnson, once of Microsoft, as CEO. Two had worked at Microsoft and another long term employee left. In … Read more
What They Say Just before we broke for the holiday, Bloomberg reported that it had seen internal documents from Amazon that said that smart speakers are no longer in a growth phase and forecast only 1.2% growth for its Echo units. There were some interesting statistics. A quarter of U.S. households owned at least one … Read more
What They Say Nikkei reports that Luxshare of China is building a ‘massive manufacturing complex’ in eastern China to break the hold of Pegatron and Foxconn have had on iPhone assembly. The factory will cover 285,000 m² (40 football fields, Nikkei said) with an investment of $1.72 billion. The company has also leased a site … Read more
What They Say Protocol newsletter posted an article that looked at developments in streaming this year and categorised 2021 as the ‘post-cable’ year. One of the interesting snippets was that the article said that 8.5 million antennas were sold in the year, with 40 million people watching according to Scripps Network. That number is expected … Read more
What They Say Just before the holiday, The Elec in Korea reported that Apple has placed a small PO with LG Display for the supply of LTPO OLEDs for the iPhones to be launched next year, specifically the 6.68″ iPhone 14 Pro Max while Samsung (SDC) will be the sole supplier for the 6.06″ iPhone … Read more
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