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Displaymate Looks at OnePlus 8T

What They Say Dr Ray Soneira of DisplayMate Technologies reviewed the display on the OnePlus 8T smartphone and found that it is a very good display with up to 1,090 cd/m² peak brightness. Like other high end OLED smartphones based on Samsung Display OLEDs, in several ways it is ”visually indistinguishable from perfect’. Soneira awards … Read more

Pimax Receives USD$20M Series B Funding  

Pimax, a prominent VR hardware manufacturer dedicated to R&D and manufacturing of consumer and commercial Virtual Reality devices has successfully received $20M (USD) Series-B funding, announced at World Conference on VR Industry 2020 (WCVRI 2020). Pimax is most well known for their VR headsets extremely wide field of view (FOV), high resolution and high degree … Read more

OnePlus Extends Display Differentiation in Smartphone Lineup with Pixelworks Technology in the OnePlus 8T

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Pixelworks®, Inc., a leading provider of innovative video and display processing solutions, and OnePlus, a premium global smartphone manufacturer, announced that the new OnePlus 8T smartphone incorporates Pixelworks technology with unique display features, including its patented high-efficiency color calibration, color management, flesh tone correction and protection, flicker-free screen dimming and ultra-smooth adaptive brightness. The OnePlus … Read more

EL-QLED Progress Comes out of the “Blue”

It seems I’ve written a lot recently about EL-QLED progress, even though commercialization would appear to be still many years off. But it is just so interesting I can’t help myself! You may recall I lamented about the status of blue EL-QLED (electroluminescent QLED) earlier this year in Singing the EL-QLED Blues. A recent article … Read more

Netflix Develops lower bitrates and higher quality

What They Say Netflix published a blog post to say that it is to use its latest codec schemes including per-title encode optimisations and per-shot dynamic optimisation on its back catalogue to reduce the bitrate needed without losing quality. The services started with fixed bitrate encoding. The firm has been improving its codec optimisation and … Read more

MicroVision Introduces The World’s Smallest And Lightest Display Module For Smart Glasses

What They Say A post on Seeking Alpha (an investors’ site) said that MicroVision has released a very small and light display module for AR glasses. The article has quite a lot of information on the development of AR glasses. What We Think There is some useful information in the article, but it smells like … Read more

MPAI Becomes More Real

We received this information about the MPAI (Chiariglione Launches Moving Picture, Audio and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence (MPAI) Organisation). “A few weeks ago, I wrote about my idea of establishing a non-profit organisation dedicated to leverage artificial intelligence to cope with the demand of data compression in a new setting that remunerates innovation while … Read more

Aledia Accelerating microLED Execution

In 2017, we published a couple of articles about French start-up Aledia, after a talk at the SID Investor Conference and following a trip to the LETI Research Centre in Grenoble. Recently, the company was able to raise cash to accelerate the development of its nanowire-based microLED technology and I had the chance to catch … Read more