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Ultraleap Launches its Fifth-Generation Hand Tracking Platform – Gemini

Ultraleap’s fifth-generation hand tracking platform, known as Gemini, is fully available on Windows. The most robust, flexible hand tracking ever, it’s already bringing touchless technology to self-service solutions around the world. The Gemini Windows release is the first step in making the world’s best hand tracking easier to access and more flexible for multiple platforms, … Read more

PMA Research Tracking Reveals Top-Selling Projectors in September

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

VESA Publishes Embedded DisplayPort Standard Version 1.5

The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA®) announced that it has published the Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) Standard version 1.5. Replacing eDP 1.4b, published in 2015, eDP 1.5 retains all key features of the previous specification while adding additional capabilities and performance. These include an improved panel self-refresh protocol coupled with enhancements to VESA’s Adaptive-Sync protocol, a … Read more

EMEA PC Market Maintains Growth in 2021Q3, Despite Lower Consumer Spending and Continued Supply Issues, Says IDC

The Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) traditional PC market, (desktops, notebooks, and workstations) grew 12.7% YoY in 2021Q3, for a total of 24.4 million units, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). A strong commercial performance throughout the region is the main driver of this growth, offsetting a slowdown in consumer, which could not keep … Read more

Research: 71% US homes still pay-TV subs

What They Say US analyst Leichtman Research Group said that 71% of US TV households have some form of pay TV service – down from 82% in 2016, 87% in 2011, and 86% in 2006. The penetration of pay TV increases with consumer age and goes from 64% at 18-44 to 77% at 45+ down … Read more

Why There are Supply Chain Problems

What They Say Economist Paul Kedrosky included an interesting chart on his daily feed of such things. It is from the US Bureau of Economic Activity (BEA) and highlighted the dramatic change in the balance between the sales of goods and services caused in the US by the pandemic. What We Think I became aware … Read more

Links Week Ending 29th October 2021

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. Sixteen-nine’s Dave Haynes has a look a what is going on at Infocomm Sharp’s 8K Interactive Museum Solution “A Hands-On Look at Legendary Tea Bowls” Wins 2021 Design … Read more

Best Buy stores will soon offer Samsung foldable repairs

What They Say The Verge reports that Best Buy in the US is now offering repairs for Samsung’s foldable smartphones as well as the Galaxy S and Note ranges. Some stores have done this before, but Samsung said that this was a pilot programme. What We Think I have previously successfully replaced a display in … Read more