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The annual ISTE conference, the largest ed-tech conference in the U.S., has certainly gone through its covidian contortions lately. Every year I provide a conference session analysis of this respected conference for our readers, but for two consecutive years now, the conference has been forced online due to the stresses of the Rona. Usually, conference … Read more
What They Say Because of the virus, the Gamescom event in Germany went virtual and this year saw 5.8 million viewers on the opening night from 180 countries, with up to two million simultaneous viewers. 118,000 people followed the congress programme and 2,000 trade visitors attended. Content will be available online until the end of … Read more
What They Say The GfU put out its data (based on GfK & GfU sources) on the German CE market in the first half of 2021. The overall electronics market was up 7.4% to almost €22 billion with all segments positive. CE was €13.9 billion, up 5.7% with consumer IT up by 9.1% to €4.1 … Read more
Studio 100 and CityCubes have joined forces to launch an innovative new experience, Studio 100 Story Studio, which uses a combination of spectacular, life-size projections and an audio story told through headphones to immerse the audience in each adventure. The Studio, which is based on the Meir in Antwerp, will be the very first time … Read more
What They Say The 8K Association reports that Blackmagic Design (BMD) has reduced the price of its 12K resolution camera from $10K to $6K. Further, the firm’s Davinci Resolve software has had a 3X speed improvement for 4K and 8K on Apple Mac models with the M1 chip. What We Think The article is worth … Read more
What They Say Bloomberg’s subscriber only Power On newsletter has forecast that the next Apple Watch (Series 7) range will have slightly larger and flatter displays. The new design will be a major part of the upgrade. There will be 41mm and 45 mm versions (up from 40mm and 44mm) and there will be new … Read more
TiVo’s latest Video Trends Report was just released, covering the second quarter of 2021, and it’s full of interesting data about how, when, and where we in North America watch video content. A little over a decade ago, the video streaming business didn’t exist. YouTube got off the ground in February of 2005 and a … Read more
What They Say Samsung Display showed a new use case with a speaker fitted with a 12.4″ flexible OLED that can open out under automatic control to make a flat(tish) display. What We Think Usually, I’m not impressed with demos of curveable displays using motors. Typically, the motors and control circuitry cost quite a lot … Read more
What They Say OLED-Info reported that Int Tech (INT is a New Player for High-Density Displays) is on track to launch production of its uNEEDXR display which has a diagonal of 0.7″ and 3147 ppi with 5,000 cd/m² of output. The company said that the direct RGB device is more power efficient than other WOLED … Read more
What They Say It’s Friday, so forgive me an indulgence that is only slightly related to displays! I spotted an interesting blog that loos in detail at the key question on everybody’s mind, “Why are hyperlinks blue”. The article looks back to Windows 1 and beyond. I won’t spoil the surprise, but it does go … Read more
What They Say Bloomberg reported that the owner of TikTok, ByteDance, is in discussion with Pico about buying the company. On the other hand, a Chinese publication, Pandaily, reported that the deal had been done for $770 million. Pico is a maker of VR headsets and is said to have the largest market share in … Read more
What They Say Details of Facebook’s Aria project have been revealed after an FCC listing of a manual. The headset will not include displays but will be focused (sorry!) on capturing information and video. It will have four cameras that are the same as those used in the Quest 2. The glasses will be built … Read more
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