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A couple of weeks ago, I heard that there would be a trade show for the custom installation (CI), home automation and AV installation businesses, (Ei Live!) just a few kilometres from my home. Given the current issues with fuel distribution in the UK, I decided to go, as even my bike would have got … Read more
What They Say Samsung has been fined €40m for price-fixing TVs in the Netherlands. The company coordinated the prices being offered by different retailers according to the Dutch Consumer organisation, Autoriteit Consument & Markt. You can find a copy of the judgement here (in Dutch) What We Think European legislation on price fixing is very … Read more
2020 both accelerated and severely hampered the Virtual Reality (VR) market, and those impacts continue in 2021. Consumer interest in VR grew significantly, while the bubble created around location-based VR—once a significant portion of the total VR market—is now bursting. Interest is slowly returning for public usage in arcades and other experiences, while home use … Read more
What They Say ABI Research said that over the next five years, steady growth will mean shipments of 50.1 million VR headsets by 2026, a CAGR of 42% and will lead to $56 billion in VR market revenues by the same time. Stand-alone headsets will rise from 44% this year to nearly 80% of the … Read more
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. No link, but Schott has a press event next week with news on its smartphone coverglass. We’ve registered and plan to report. Extended reality goes medieval for live … Read more
RealWear, the world’s leading provider of assisted reality solutions for frontline industrial workers, announced that Autodesk and RealWear have successfully collaborated to integrate Autodesk Construction Cloud® with RealWear’s flagship HMT-1 assisted reality hands-free HMT-1 device. Global construction company Permasteelisa is adopting the solution for its teams. “Running BIM 360 on a RealWear device will be … Read more
What They Say Somehow we missed an announcement by Absen that it had launched its ‘Clear Cobalt’ LED display (which it calls ‘Micro LED’ in a virtual event last week. The display uses Chip-on-Board (COB) technology with an ‘ultra black’ coating and support for HDR10, enabled by high brightness and contrast. Absen it has been … Read more
What They Say Some iPad Mini 6 owners have been complaining that there is what is being called a ‘jelly scroll’ effect as the display ‘appears to jiggle’ when you scroll down a page with the tablet positioned vertically. There is a slow motion video showing the effect here. Ars Technica said that Apple responded … Read more
What They Say LG has produced a ‘false 3D’ display on a curved LED display in New York’s Times Square that exploits the shape of the corner-mounted display. LG has been using the display for some time What We Think This technique seems to be being called ‘forced perspective’. That’s a useful term for finding … Read more
Kongsberg Geospatial announced that it has partnered with Avalon Holographics to develop a revolutionary holographic sonar display for submarine warfare, in a project funded by the Canadian Department of National Defense IDEaS (Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security) program. The Canadian DND IDEaS project will lead to the development and testing of the world’s first … Read more
What They Say Kongsberg Geospatial announced today that it has partnered with Avalon Holographics to develop a holographic sonar display for submarine warfare in a project funded by Canadian Defence authorities. The system will show data from passive sonar tracking. There is a brief Vimeo video here. What We Think Avalon seems to break the … Read more
What They Say We reported on the new Surface Duo the other day, and a little time later we spotted a review of the display by DXOMark. However, the review was, sadly, of the 2020 version and it’s fair to say that the tester was underwhelmed by the OLEDs used. It found that it was … Read more
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