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Lenovo Visuals Business Unit Cements Status as Industry Leader

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Lenovo’s exceptional monitors and messaging campaigns have cemented its status as a leader in the electronics industry. Lenovo Visuals Business Unit, a team dedicated to delivering industry-leading display solutions, recently unveiled five new halo monitors at IFA 2019. This launch exemplifies Lenovo’s dedication to becoming a customer-centric brand in every sense. The ThinkVision sub-brand and … Read more

Varjo Pushes The Envelope on VR Performance

I’m a great believer that understanding display technology is only half the story. If you don’t understand the human side of the interface, you don’t really understand the display. So, when I see companies that have used an understanding of the human visual system and are exploiting it in their display, I pay particular attention. … Read more

VividQ and Himax Enter into a New Partnership to Bring Holographic Display to the Masses

VividQ, a UK-based software company, is partnering with Himax Technologies, Inc., a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor solution provider, to create a complete solution for holographic display. In the new partnership Himax’s mass manufacturing capabilities for LCoS microdisplays and VividQ’s real-time 3D holographic software enable integration of truly holographic projections into everyday consumer devices. Holographic display enables … Read more

RealD Wins Patent Lawsuits Against Volfoni And CinemaNext

A district court in Düsseldorf, Germany ruled in favor of global visual technology leader, RealD Inc., finding infringement of three of its patents by Volfoni SmartCrystal Diamond triple-beam systems, it was announced by RealD Inc. The German court awarded injunctions, damages and costs against Volfoni, distributor CinemaNext, and Volfoni’s directors, for infringing on RealD’s two- … Read more

Silicon IP Provider Allegro DVT Acquires Amphion Semiconductor to Create a New Leader in the Video Codec IP Space

Allegro DVT, the leading provider of video codec compliance test suites and semiconductor video IPs, announced the acquisition of Amphion Semiconductor, the Belfast-based developer of video codec semiconductor IP solutions. The resulting company will operate under the Allegro DVT brand from its existing offices in Grenoble, France and Belfast, Northern Ireland. The acquisition brings together … Read more

Samsung Electronics Ranks 6th in Interbrand’s Best Global Brands 2019

Samsung Electronics announced that it has maintained the number six rank in Interbrand’s “Best Global Brands 2019” list with a brand value of $61.1 billion – achieving a two percent increase in brand value. Major factors that played a critical role in Samsung’s growth were: Continuous launches of innovative products that suit consumers’ new lifestyle, … Read more

CinemaNext Launches First ILLUCITY-Branded VR Corner at Belgium’s Kinepolis Liège Cinema

CinemaNext, the European specialist in cinema exhibitor services, announced the successful installation of its first ILLUCITY Corner virtual reality (VR) solution for cinema exhibitors at Belgium’s Kinepolis Liège cinema. The opening comes one year after the launch of the acclaimed ILLUCITY adventure park in Paris, the first VR Location Based Entertainment (LBE) centre of its … Read more

Are We There Yet?

If you ever been with children in a car on an extended road trip, you have heard these dreaded words more often than you would like to admit. On the other hand, they also apply perfectly fine to the state of VR applications. Depending on what market segment you are looking at, the answer seems … Read more

NEC Launches New MediaPlayer Powered by Raspberry Pi

NEC Display Solutions Europe has unveiled its latest MediaPlayer for its digital signage solutions. The MediaPlayer software comes pre-installed on NEC´s Raspberry Pi Compute Module at no additional charge, delivering easy set-up and operation, powerful ‘out-of-the-box’ performance and customisation that’s ideal for digital display boards in retail, digital menu boards, leisure and corporate communication applications. … Read more

Compound Photonics and Plessey Semiconductors Partner to Deliver Industry Leading MicroLED Display Solutions for AR/MR Applications

Compound Photonics US Corporation, a leading provider of compact high-resolution microdisplay solutions for Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) applications, and Plessey Semiconductors Ltd. (Plessey), an embedded technologies developer at the forefront of microLED technology for AR and MR display applications, announced a strategic partnership to develop and introduce the World’s smallest 1080p (1920×1080 … Read more

Nanosys on Track for Record Shipments of Quantum Dots for Displays in 2019

Nanosys, the Quantum Dot company, announced that it is completing the calendar year with record-setting shipments. The market for displays based on the Nanosys’ proprietary Quantum Dot technology entered a new phase of rapid growth in 2019 with shipments of the company’s Quantum Dot materials increasing by more 50% compared to the prior year. More … Read more

LG Introduces First 4K Ultra HD Hotel TVs With NanoCell Display Technology

Bringing a new level of premium quality video and audio performance to LCD hotel TVs, LG Business Solutions USA has launched the first 4K Ultra HD TVs designed specifically for the hospitality market with NanoCell display technology. LG’s UT770H series of Pro:Centric® smart hospitality TVs brings LG’s award-winning LCD TV display technology from the consumer … Read more