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A team of researchers headed by Sen-Lin Pang of the College of Electronics and Information Engineering at Sichuan University (Chengdu, China) is developing an innovative integral imaging display system. First, a few words of background information on integral imaging technology paraphrased from Wikipedia. Integral imaging is an autostereoscopic 3D imaging technique that captures and then … Read more
What They Say Planar has announced a new series, the CarbonLight VX series, that is optimised for virtual production. It features 1.9mm and 2.6mm pitch and there are models with Brompton controllers. The colour performance is up to DCI-P3 for the Planar CarbonLight CLI VX1.9 model. The LED refresh rate is 3840Hz and frame rates … Read more
What They Say Barrons.com reported research from Evercore ISI analyst Mark Mahaney who said that Facebook is on track to sell more than eight million Quest 2 headsets in the the first year. He believes that the firm has sold five to six million units to date. That would mean that the headset represents around … Read more
What They Say We’ve reported a couple of times on the Illuminarium and its partnership with Panasonic. The venue uses around 50 Panasonic projectors for ‘a combined projection of more than 3 billion pixels’. Protocol reports that to meet the needs of the venue, Panasonic developed a new custom short-throw lens partly because during the … Read more
Planar, a global leader in visualization technology, introduced the Planar® CarbonLight™ VX Series, a line of LED display solutions optimized to meet the needs of the exploding virtual production (VP) and extended reality (XR) markets. Featuring a lightweight, patented carbon fiber construction, the Planar CarbonLight VX Series supports indoor fine pitch LED video wall, ceiling … Read more
What They Say TrendForce put out its view of the high end TV market, where brands will focus, and away from the small/medium set market because of supply side and profitability issues. QLED sets are forecast to reach 11.02 million units, up 22.4% on 2020 while OLED TVs will reach 7.1 million, up 80%. Samsung … Read more
After peaking at $259 billion in 2019, pro AV industry revenue dropped to $214 billion globally in 2020 due to the pandemic, according to the new 2021 AV Industry Outlook and Trends Analysis (IOTA) produced by AVIXA, the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association. IOTA forecasts revenue will reach $232 billion in 2021 and grow to … 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 second part of this week. Loewe: New 4K OLED TVs with Loewe os7 and Dolby Vision LG starts rolling out its “QNED” LCD TVs (That’s LG’s LCDs, not the Samsung QNED) Samsung Galaxy … Read more
Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd., a leading global innovator of LED products and technology, announced that the New Jersey District Court issued a consent judgment and permanent injunction for infringement of twelve Seoul Semiconductor patents against 13 automotive lighting brand LED products being sold through automotive parts’ distribution channels. WICOP is a revolutionary patented technology that … Read more
What They Say Seoul Semiconductor issued a press release saying that it has won a case in the New Jersey District Court over the use of its Wicop patent for LED lens attachment. The feature makes it popular for automotive use and the firm said that 10% of all automobiles (102 models). However the technology … Read more
Global shipments of virtual reality (VR) headsets grew 52.4% year over year in the first quarter of 2021 (1Q21), according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Augmented and Virtual Reality Headset Tracker. Standalone headsets, which feature an all-encompassing design such as the Oculus Quest 2 or the HTC Vive Focus, … Read more
What They Say YouTube will have an add-on service to allow UltraHD streaming with 5.1 Dolby surround sound at $19.99 per month on top of the regular $64.99 YouTube TV subscription, although there is a 50% early-bird discount for the add-on and there’s a 30 day trial. Another feature of the add-on is a facility … Read more
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