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What They Say Epson announced a new OLED microdisplay and an AR display engine. The engine will be used in the firm’s Moverio glasses and also sold on the merchant market. The new microdisplay has a 0.453″ diagonal, resolution of 1920 x 1080 and contrast quoted at 500K:1. What We Think In September, Epson Taiwan … Read more
What They Say Although we haven’t been able to pin down an original source, we have seen various reports that Royole has announced a $2.4 billion flexible OLED fab to be built in Qingdao, China. What We Think I can’t say that I have been impressed with any of the Royole OLEDs that I have … Read more
What They Say The Deutsche TV-Plattform has launched a support initiative for the CI-Plus V2.0 system. The key development in version 2 is to support the use of external USB keys for decryption control. What We Think For those readers not involved in European TV, the CI slot was a standard slot to allow modules … Read more
What They Say The Elec in Korea reports a forecast from Stone Partners that half of all new flexible OLED smartphones due to launch in 2021 will come from Apple, with the market representing 315 million units, up 52%. Apple’s volume of OLEDs is expected to go from 90 million to 160 million. Samsung Electronics … Read more
A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to (yet another) webinar for a new product launch in virtual reality by HP. I really wasn’t looking forward to it – just another Windows VR headset, it seemed, but it turned out to be significantly more than that. So, let’s get the basics out of the … Read more
In my previous article, “More Tales from the Pandemic (Pain Points in Education, Part I)“, I highlighted five “pain points” that educational institutions are currently enduring due to the Pandemic. These five were, of course, all hurdles that were quite predictable. Today’s article, however, focuses on some newer and less foreseeable pain points that schools … Read more
This is the second part of a short series on how wider colour gamut content is coming to the market. Yesterday , I looked at how the technology allows content with wider colour gamut than Rec. 709/P3 to get to the wider colour gamut displays that are now available using, for example, quantum dots and … Read more
What They Say Vizio said that its M-Series Quantum, P-Series Quantum, and P-Series Quantum X, which have the firm’s ProGaming Engine, will be upgraded to support AMD FreeSync, with the P-Series going to the FreeSync Premium level. On P-Series, you also can take advantage of the Nvidia RTX30, a new 4K 120fps HDMI graphics card. … Read more
The worldwide smartphone market showed signs of improvement in the third quarter of 2020 (3Q20) with shipments declining just 1.3% year over year, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. In total, 353.6 million smartphones were shipped during 3Q20 and while the market declined, the results were … Read more
The worldwide tablet market delivered solid results in the third quarter of 2020 (3Q20) with 24.9% year-over-year growth and shipments totaling 47.6 million units, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. The demand for affordable access to basic computing and larger screens to facilitate remote work, … Read more
Lenovo™ announced it has become a reseller of Varjo’s human-eye resolution VR and XR headsets. This further deepens the existing collaboration between the two enterprise-class manufacturers and allows customers to easily access a complete solution for their professional virtual and mixed reality workflows. Through the reseller agreement, users can purchase “Certified for Varjo” workstations along … Read more
Corning Incorporated, the world’s leading manufacturer of optical materials, including high-refractive index glass that enables superior image quality for augmented and mixed reality (AR/MR) wearables, and Pixelligent, a leading high-quality compound material supplier, announced a new strategic collaboration to further the development of AR/MR optics. Pixelligent’s resins, which are optically transparent polymers, paired with Corning’s … Read more
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