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Links Week Commencing 15th November 2021

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. One UI 4 Update Delivers an Elevated Mobile Experience Centered Around You LG 27GP700: gaming monitor with 240 Hz and 1 ms G2G Amazon releases Prime Video app … Read more

India’s Smartphone Market to Exit 2021 with a Low Single-digit Annual Growth, says IDC

What They Say IDC forecast that after dropping 12% year on year in Q3 2021 to 48 million units, the market for smartphones in India will be below 160 million in 2021. The firm is forecasting challenging conditions for 2022. The country was the third largest 5G smartphone market with 7% of worldwide 5G shipments … Read more

Emerging Display Technologies for the AR/VR Market

The AR/VR Display Forum, the virtual conference by DSCC on November 3rd and 4th focused on emerging display trends that are shaping the market. There is a surge of interest in AR (Augmented Reality)/VR (Virtual Realty) market due to the recent focus on the Metaverse by industry leaders such as Meta (the new name for … Read more

Where are all the OLED monitors?

What They Say PC World magazine published an article lamenting the relative scarcity of OLEDs in IT devices (other than smartphones and tablets). The article included quotes from Ross Young of DSCC who said, among other things, that “There are a number of near-term advances expected in reducing power […]. These developments combined could reduce … Read more

RealView Debuts Interference-based Volumetric Holography for Medical Applications

Israeli start-up RealView Imaging has now confirmed that their medical imaging device, called the Holoscope-i, has received FDA clearance. This is a big milestone for the company which has been working on its holographic-based device for over seven years. To be clear, this is not an eyeglasses-style device but rather a boom-mounted head-up display (HUD) … Read more

Samsung Explains Premiere UST Projector

What They Say Samsung’s website carried a blog article about the concept behind and industrial design of its Premiere UST projector. What We Think I still haven’t quite got my head around why Samsung would have gone back into the projector market at this time other than a generic Borg-like ‘Assimilate’ strategy on TV devices. … Read more

Netflix Rolls Out AV1 Streaming Codec on PS4 Pro, Select Android-Powered Smart TVs

What They Say Next TV reported that Netflix has added support for the AV1 codec to its PlayStation 4 Pro console app and is also rolling it out to some Android TVs that support AV1. The provider said that the lower bitrate requirement for AV1 means that switching to lower quality video modes to maintain … Read more

Nuclear Fusion Is Close Enough to Start Dreaming

What They Say Bloomberg published an interesting article that suggested that nuclear fusion is showing a lot of signs that the technology, which has been ‘promising’ for decades is ‘getting ready for prime time’. It pointed out that a start-up, Helion, has won $500 million in funding to develop its technology to generate net electricity … Read more

Blackmagic Design Announces New Blackmagic URSA Studio Viewfinder G2

Blackmagic Design announced a new studio viewfinder model, Blackmagic URSA Viewfinder G2, with a super bright 2,000 nit display, ideal for use in bright sunlight. The new URSA Studio Viewfinder G2 is also available at a new lower price of US$1,495, a reduction of $300 which will help to make it even more affordable for … Read more