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Canon’s new dual-fisheye EOS R lens is for creating 3D VR content

What They Say Canon has developed a ‘dual fisheye’ lens that can shoot stereo 3D 180° video when used with its EOS R5 camera. The lens can be used with a subscription-based software utility and Adobe Premiere Pro plug-in to create video files. There will be trial periods of these available and Canon said that … Read more

Avocor Launches New One-Touch Software to Simplify Meetings & Content Access

Avocor, the fastest-growing global collaboration display company, announces Avocor GroupShare, its new subscription-based meeting user interface, to help teams easily and quickly manage video calls, which have exploded in popularity in the last 18 months. Avocor’s GroupShare enables single-button meeting start from Avocor’s interactive display, personal mobile device or a PC; access to your documents … Read more

Computex to Go Ahead in 2022

What They Say Computex in Taiwan is due to go ahead from May 24th to 27th 2022 in Taipei. What We Think As I understand it, the quarantine restrictions in Taiwan have continued to be tight for travel from anywhere. Tight regulation has kept the deaths/100K of the population to 3.6 compared to over 200 … Read more

Spend on Emerging Device Categories – including Wearables, AR/VR Headsets, and Smart Home – Will See Continued Robust Growth, According to IDC

Total value of three emerging categories of products – augmented and virtual reality headsets, smart home devices, and wearables – is expected to reach $372.1 billion by the end of this calendar year, and swell to $542.8 billion by the end of 2025 according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly … Read more

Rakuten Kobo released two new e-readers

What They Say Rakuten Kobo has two new eBooks, the 8″ Kobo Sage and the 7″ Libra 2. The Kobo Sage has an EInk Carta 1200 display with resolution of 1440 x 1920 with 300ppi. The display has a 20% faster response time than E Ink Carta 1000 and a 15% improvement in contrast ratio. … Read more

Asus ProArt PA32UCG Review: Everything AND The Kitchen Sink

What They Say Toms Hardware reviewed the Asus ProArt PA32UCG ‘Professional Gaming Monitor’. It said that the monitor is: “extreme in every respect, including its $5,000 price tag. With near-perfect out-of-box accuracy, record setting brightness and contrast, and supreme versatility, it’s a great solution for professionals and gamers seeking the ultimate display” The only downsides … Read more

Measuring HDR Displays Gets Clearer

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I’m a great believer in the saying ‘If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it’, but measuring displays is really, really tricky. However, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. More than thirty years ago, selling high end CRT-based monitors, I found that an image that was ‘good enough’ was really hard to define. CRT-based … Read more

UGC Group Chooses Sharp/NEC for Four New Cinemas in France

Sharp NEC Display Solutions Europe announces that its RB laser technology projectors have been selected by the UGC Group to be used across its four (4) new cinemas. Cinemas in Plaisir, Toulouse, Bordeaux, and Lyon in France will benefit from the unsurpassed brightness and rich colour spectrum delivered by Sharp/NEC’s cinema solutions. Laurent Rieupeyrout, Technical … Read more

Sharp/NEC Announces Two New Models to the C Series Large Format Displays Range with Full Suite of Office Functionalities

Sharp NEC Display Solutions Europe announces two new models in its innovative C Series large format displays which combine stunning UHD resolution, high reliability, and long lifetime. The C Series has become the display of choice for a wide range of applications, from business presentations to digital signage. As part of its commitment to continuous … Read more

Performance Meets Sustainability in Barco’s New LED Rear-Projection Cube

If you would list the most desired features for a rear-projection cube destined for the control room market, you would probably describe the next-generation of the OverView MVL-721. High brightness and great image quality? Check! Low power consumption and sustainability? Present! Reliability and a long lifetime? Naturally! This LED-lit RPC is another remarkable step forward … Read more

Barco Updates RPCs

What They Say Barco annouced the next generation of its LED light sourced MVL-721 FullHD rear projection cube (RPC) which is said to have an increase in brightness of 55%. There was no detail on the changes, presumably in the light source of the DLP-based unit. On-screen brightness is from 155 cd/m² (eco mode (FXS … Read more