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New Study Projects Mobile AR Revenue to Reach $26.05 Billion by 2025  

ARtillery Intelligence released a new report that projects mobile AR annual revenue to grow from $6.87 billion in 2020 to $26.05 billion in 2025, a 30.5 percent compound annual growth rate. Entitled Mobile AR Global Revenue Forecast, 2020-2025, it dives deep on mobile AR revenue totals and subcategories – including consumer and enterprise spending. Enterprise … Read more

Pervasive Displays Adds Rugged EPDs to its Product Portfolio to Address Emerging Application Opportunities

Pervasive Displays, recognized specialist in the development and supply of e-paper displays (EPDs), has further expanded the range of potential use cases that its products can support through introduction of the new Armor offering. EPDs based on the company’s unique Armor technology will achieve greater mechanical robustness and improved sunlight readability characteristics. This means they … Read more

UHD Broadcast Adoption Stalling

What They Say The IBC.org site published an interesting and extended article on the limited penetration of UltraHD resolution into broadcasting. The article hightlights that both SES and Eutelsat have said that their UHD channel count is down as demo channels are closed and ‘pop-up’ channels are down from two years ago. Paul Gray of … Read more

European Wearable Market Showed Positive Growth in 1Q21, Says IDC

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In the first quarter of 2021, the wearable market in Europe grew 33.0% compared with the same period in 2020, according to the latest IDC Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. Between January and March, 22.0 million units were shipped to the region. “A year after disruptions in supply chain and consumer confidence, the wearable market … Read more

Kopin Outlines Material for Pancake Optics

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What They Say Kopin reported that it has developed an all-plastic ‘pancake’ optical lens system for VR, AR and MR applications. The lens system provides an image equivalent to a 250″ (635cm) diagonal display viewed at 10′ (3m) distance when used with a Kopin 2.6K x 2.6K OLED microdisplay, but the lens is just 16mm … Read more

Kateeva Announces Strategic Partnership with Pixelligent

What They Say Ten days ago, Kateeva announced that it had made a deal with Pixelligent to support the use of PixJet high-refractive index materials in inkjet encapsulation of OLEDs with an optimised planarisation layer over microlens arrays. This enables more light to get to the output of the OLED. Given that every manufacturer’s process … Read more

Strategy Analytics: Samsung and Vivo are World’s Fastest Growing 5G Smartphone Vendors in Q1 2021  

What They Say Although Apple is dominating the 5G smartphone market, with 29.7% share in Q1 2021, Strategy Analytics said that Samsung and Vivo saw the biggest growth from Q4 at 79% and 62% in units, respectively. Apple, on the other hand, dropped by 23% after the launch of the iPhone 12 in that quarter. … Read more