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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
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
What They Say Optics.org reports that scientists at CEA-LETI in Grenoble (it seems to be LETI week – probably related to a virtual open day it recently held) have developed a 6 x 6mm surface with a printed pixellated hologram. The idea is to create a coherent image on the back of the retina by … Read more
What They Say The article gives some interesting data on how (US) consumers view the sharing of data to SmartTV operators. There are also some interesting numbers on how viewers feel about video piracy. What We Think On the one hand, you would think that targeted advertising would be attractive, but I must say I … Read more
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
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
What They Say Here are three links with useful news on the smartphone market Strategy Analytics said that Samsung Captured 88 Percent Market-Share of 5G Smartphone Shipments in Western Europe in H1 2020 Report: Huawei is in talks to sell part of its Honor smartphone unit Nikkei reports that China’s Oppo makes play for European … Read more
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
What They Say The Taiwanese panel makers have put out their monthly data – see below graphics. What We Think Given the recovery in large panel prices, the boost in large panel volumes will be very welcome. The total for large panels has not been above 21.X million before, at least not in the last … Read more
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
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
JBD a leading microLED display manufacturer, will release its JBD4UM480P microLED display series extending the AmµLED™ family in November this year. This series has a display area of 0.13” (3.3 mm) in diagonal and a resolution of 640X480, possibly making it the world’s smallest and brightest VGA display panel ever made. Approaching the size of … Read more
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