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What They Say The Information’s Reality Check reported that Apple’s anticipated augmented reality headset will rely on connecting to an iPhone (or other device) to work, rather than being a stand-alone device. The article quoted Bloomberg as saying last year that there had been a battle within Apple on this topic. The chip for the … Read more
What They Say Protocol newsletter reported that Facebook has acquired the patent portfolio from the failed Daqri venture. (Behind the Daqri Failure) The rights were initially sold to RPX Corp which sold them on to Facebook. The article reports that Daqri sold ‘over 700 units’ of its headset. What We Think Protocol thinks that the … Read more
The MIPI Alliance, an international organization that develops interface specifications for mobile and mobile-influenced industries, announced a major update to its MIPI D-PHY specification for connecting megapixel cameras and high-resolution displays to application processors. Version 3.0 doubles the data rate of D-PHY’s standard channel to 9 Gigabits per second (Gbps), while extending the power efficiency … Read more
What They Say Reuters reported that the Vietnam government has licensed LG Display to invest $1/4 billion in the city of Hai Phong for OLED module assembly. The report said that 10,000 new jobs would be created with export revenue of $6.5 billion. Capacity is reported to be expanding from 9.6 to 10.1 million units … Read more
What They Say Somehow I missed last week that in its set of product releases, it included the ZenScreen MQ13AH which uses a 13.3″ FullHD OLED to create a 500g and 5mm thick USB monitor designed for acting as a second screen for notebooks. There is also a 15.6″ version, the MQ16AH. 10 bit colour … Read more
The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA®) announced that it has added a new 600 performance level to its DisplayHDR True Black high dynamic range (HDR) specification and standard. Based on VESA’s widely adopted High-Performance Monitor and Display Compliance Test Specification (DisplayHDR), the DisplayHDR True Black standard is optimized for emissive display technologies, such as organic … Read more
What They Say VESA has announced a new True Black 600 level to its DisplayHDR certification, raising the brightness level to 600 cd/m² from the previous 400 and 500 levels. There are three products that have met the specification so far. the ASUS Vivobook Pro 14, Vivobook Pro 14X and Vivobook 15 laptops VESA said … Read more
What They Say The GfU pointed out that it is 20 years since LCDs were first introduced in Germany as TVs, starting with sales of 8,000 12″ units (priced at DM4,500/€2,300). Since then, the market has seen sales of 100 million units. OLED TVs, in contrast, have sold 2.5 million units to the end of … Read more
What They Say Samsung announced new image sensors, a 200 megapixel sensor (HP1) with 0.64?m pixels and a ‘Dual Pixel Pro’ device (GN5) with two photodiodes in a single 1.0?m pixel. The higher resolution HP1 has a technology that combines up to 16 pixels to a single one that allows a 12.5 megapixel resolution for … Read more
Kramer has unveiled the VP-427X2, a 4K receiver /scaler tool that features dual HDBaseT inputs and a local HDMI to facilitate multiple device connectivity for automatic signal switching in meeting and conference spaces. The VP-427X2 ensures superb 4K picture quality is delivered through up, down and cross-scaling to the display’s native resolution, or any resolution … Read more
Large panel capacity is up 5.7% Y/Y, due to the growth in China, offset somewhat by Samsung’s partial exit from LCD production. Samsung’s large area display capacity share has dropped from 11% in Q120 to 0.6% in Q221. A major part of the change was Samsung sale of a majority interest in their Gen 8.5 … 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
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