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SID Reveals Display Week 2021 I-Zone And People’s Choice Award Winners, Attended By 10,000+ Display Enthusiasts

The Society for Information Display (SID) announced the winners of the I-Zone (Innovation Zone) at its 58th International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition, known as Display Week 2021. In addition, thousands of display enthusiasts across the world voted in the first-ever virtual People’s Choice Awards at SID’s second all-virtual event, May 17-21. “Display Week attendance exceeded … Read more

Nanosys Acquires Leading MicroLED Company glō

Nanosys, the industry pioneer and leading supplier of quantum dot light emitting materials and technology, announced the acquisition of gl?, the leading technology company for microLED displays. The transaction significantly expands Nanosys’ capabilities and technology offerings, accelerating the company’s development and progress toward the widespread adoption of microLED and nanoLED display technology for future displays. … Read more

HP Omen 25i: New IPS monitor with FreeSync Premium Pro

What They Say Tom’s Hardware has reviewed the HP Omen 25i gaming monitor which by coincidence has just become available for pre-order in Europe at €249 according to Prad.de. Tom’s gave the monitor an Editor’s Choice award. Features that Tom’s liked included the Game Remaster mode which scales graphics in low resolution games (below 1080P) … Read more

Display Week Coverage

What We Think Just to let you know that I’m going to try to collate my coverage of Display Week rather than simply putting all the items I see from the event as we go. (BR)

Samsung Display Moves its Language in SID Keynote

JS Choi, CEO of Samsung Display (SDC), gave the first keynote that I watched from the SID Display Week, although it wasn’t the first keynote published. Over the years, I have attended many keynotes and sometimes Samsung has made some major technology announcements about direction. Not so much these days, it seems. There are a … Read more

DigiLens launches developer prototype for extended reality glasses

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What They Say VentureBeat interviewed DigiLens, the maker of waveguides for AR/VR and HUDs about a new version of its smartglasses that is intended as a development system, based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 platform with the firm’s Crystal50 Waveguide. DigiLens CEO Chris Pickett said: “We believe it’s the most advanced set of XR glasses … Read more

12.9-inch iPad Pro Review Round-up

What They Say MacWorld has created a round-up of reviews of the iPad Pro which has a ‘Liquid Retina XDR Display’. The Verge said “the best thing for watching movies that isn’t a high-end television” MacStories said “the best display I’ve ever seen in a portable computer”. CNBC said that the display “looked brighter outside … Read more

V-Nova LCEVC Licensing Terms Announced

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V-Nova, a leading provider of video compression solutions announced licensing terms for V-Nova LCEVC, a software development kit and a wide range of reference integrations that add MPEG-5 Part 2 LCEVC (Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding) ISO/IEC 23094-2 encoding and decoding to any existing video delivery workflow, device or application. The licensing terms have been … Read more

V-Nova LCEVC Licensing Will Be Free for Chipmakers

What They Say We’ve run it as a press release (V-Nova LCEVC Licensing Terms Announced, but we thought it was highlighting that V-Nova has announced that its LCEVC licence is free for companies that want to use it in devices, chipsets, browser and encoder/players. The licensing will be based on licenses to service providers on … Read more