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3D & 8K: A Marriage Made In Las Vegas

My schedule at CES can keep me so busy that I rarely venture away from the Las Vegas Convention Center. The show also occupies the Sands Expo Center, where additional exhibits fill the show floor and suites and ballrooms at the nearby Venetian are loaded up with everything from high-end audio manufacturers to all kinds … Read more

Great Things Happen When People Click: New ClickShare Conference Brings Wireless Conferencing to the Workplace

Barco, a global leader in meeting room technology, is about to expand the ClickShare family and to revolutionize conferencing with the introduction of a brand new range of ClickShares. ClickShare Conference is all about wireless conferencing and BYOM (Bring Your Own Meeting), as it allows you to join any type of video conference from your … Read more

XR for Training and Education (Part 3)

In my continued series about VR as an educational tool in today’s industries, my last article focuses on current headaches in deploying VR and a few highly anticipated educational developments that will serve to make VR a more effective instructional tool. These concerns and predictions are based on a recent webinar entitled “VR & AR/MR … Read more

Optoma to Showcase World Famous ‘Roncalli Circus’ Holographic Experience and Reveal its Latest Addition to the Multi-Award Winning ‘QUAD’ LED Display Series at ISE 2020

Optoma, number one DLP® projector brand in EMEA*, will return to ISE 2020 in hall 1, stand 1-N30. Optoma will present its expanded range of revolutionary ‘QUAD’ all-in-one LED display solutions, interactive flat panels (IFPDs), innovative real-life projection applications, professional and consumer 4K UHD projectors. Thierry Millet, Managing Director of Optoma EMEA, said: “ISE is … Read more

Matrox to Develop Embedded Graphics Cards with NVIDIA, Solutions Purpose-Built for Next-Generation Video Walls

Matrox® announced a collaboration with NVIDIA for the development of a new range of multi-display embedded graphics cards purpose-built for high-density video walls. Leveraging NVIDIA’s industry-renowned GPU technology, Matrox will design graphics innovations powered by a custom-built Quadro® embedded GPU to accelerate graphics-intensive video wall applications in commercial and 24/7 critical environments. “Matrox is thrilled … Read more

Desktop Grows for the Fourth Consecutive Quarter in EMEA as Demand for Windows 10 Refresh Remains Robust Across the Region, Says IDC

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The Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) traditional PC market (desktops, notebooks, and workstations) grew YoY in 2019Q4 (+5.7% YoY) and totaled 20.0 million units, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). Commercial demand remained strong as Windows 10 refresh continued to roll out, boosting the commercial segment despite component shortages, while consumer demand for more … Read more

XR for Training and Education (Part 2)

In my continued series on how real companies are wrestling with using VR as an educational tool, today’s article focuses on managing costs and measuring success. These notions are based on a recent webinar entitled “VR & AR/MR for Training & Education – What have we learned?”, a digital offering from (XR) Intelligence by Reuters … Read more

Smart Watch Display Shipments Total 57 Million in Q3, on Track to Total Nearly 200 Million by Year End

After a year of sustained strong growth in 2018, shipments of smart watch displays have continued to rise in 2019, reaching 57 million units in the third quarter, according to IHS Markit | Technology, now part of Informa Tech. Shipments rose by 34 percent year-on-year in the third quarter. For the entire year of 2019, … Read more

AR/VR Success – A Question of Form Factor?

The success of AR and VR technology (or the lack thereof) is a highly debated issue in the media between bloggers, analysts, journalists and all the marketing groups pushing their respective products. Besides almost ideological differences between the two groups of ‘yea’ and ‘nay’ sayers, there are few suggestions by analysts for the reasons why … Read more