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Planar Announces Planar EverCare Lifetime Limited Warranty for LED Displays

Planar, a global leader in visualization technology, introduced the Planar® EverCare™ Lifetime Limited Warranty, a program designed to provide customers with complete confidence in their LED video wall purchase while reducing their lifetime cost-of-ownership. Included with Planar® TVF Series and Planar® TVF Complete™ LED video walls deployed in North America, Planar EverCare is unique in … Read more

Vizio starts shipping its OLED-H1 OLED TVs

Vizio OLED

What They Say Vizio has started to ship its first OLED TVs in the US and are priced at $1,199 for the 55″ and $1,999 for the 65″. Features include HDMI 2.1, eARC and FreeSync and the panels support 120Hz. What We Think I recently bought an OLED TV after a lot of soul searching … Read more

HTC VIVE Partners with PNY Technologies To Offer New Secure, Professional-Grade VR Solution

HTC and PNY Technologies partner up to distribute the new VIVE® Pro Secure™ headset in North America. The new VIVE Pro Secure system is designed to meet the specific privacy and security requirements of sensitive environments that require Authority to Operate (ATO), such as government agencies and organizations. This professional-grade VR system provides all the … Read more

Automotive Leaders Invest in UK Pioneering Holographic Technology Company Envisics

Envisics, a market leader and inventor of enabling dynamic holographic technologies for augmented reality head-up displays (AR HUDs), has received an investment of ~$50m from a number of highly complementary blue-chip automotive companies following the successful closing of its series B strategic funding round. The group of investors recognising the potential of Envisics’ revolutionary approach … Read more

Microdisplays Industry: an Explosive Ecosystem Mixing Technical Innovations, Strategy Games and Attractive Applications

For the past few years, AR headsets have been a dream, with no credible alternative but to use microdisplays. A big microdisplay development effort has been observed for such applications in the consumer market, mainly for OLED-on-Si and microLEDs. But in the meantime, LCOS and DLP have the lion’s share. For major brands, AR would … Read more

Pixelligent Launches PixClear Titania for Ultra High-Refractive Index Applications

Pixelligent, whose PixClear® high-index Designer Compounds™ deliver unparalleled brightness, clarity and operating efficiencies for a broad range of display and optoelectronic applications, announces the launch of PixClear® Titania products. The PixClear® Titania product line, which has applications for Augmented and Virtual Reality, OLED/QD Displays and Optical Sensors, among others, delivers a refractive index range of … Read more

Avixa Power Hour Now Online

What They Say We reported comments from Chris Riegel of Stratacache on a recent Avixa Power Hour presentation, MicroLED production soon also in Europe? but now the presentation has been made available on the Sixteen-Nine site as a podcast. What We Think It’s worth a listen as its a heavyweight panel. (BR)

Cooler Screens Raises Over $80M to Fuel Growth and Accelerate Technology Capabilities

Cooler Screens, the world’s first and largest in-store digital media platform, announced the close of an over $80 million Series C funding round from Verizon Ventures, Microsoft’s venture fund M12, GreatPoint Ventures, and a number of other preeminent strategic and financial investors to drive company growth and national expansion. Silicon Valley Bank also participated in … Read more