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Ready Player One Meets Monopoly

So you have seen Ready Player One and wonder when our current VR attempts will rival such complexity and immersion. While it is up to you if you see Ready Player One as a pinnacle of VR technology or a sociological nightmare, the pure technological requirements may be available in the few years from now. … Read more

Synchronicity In the Dirt

It’s funny how, sometimes, two or three news stories just pop up together that seem to be related. Synchronicity is, I think, the technical term! However, the trigger of this little cluster of news was something slightly revolting… A hat-tip to Dave Haynes and his excellent Sixteen:Nine blog for the first item. He picked up … Read more

EDGE Technologies Selects Sony’s Crystal LED to Bring Vision of Smart and Sustainable Buildings to Life

EDGE Technologies, pioneer in sustainable intelligent buildings, is one of the first customers in Europe to install Sony’s state-of-the-art Crystal LED technology at its landmark office at the EDGE Olympic in Amsterdam. As part of the development of its brand-new HQ, EDGE Technologies has invested in the ultimate big-screen display solution from Sony to deliver … Read more

Zytronic to Demo Hybrid Touch for the First Time at ISE

Zytronic, a leader in custom designed, durable Projected Capacitive Technology (PCT and MPCT) touch sensors will demonstrate a new Hybrid Touch technology that enables full integration of physical controls within an active touchscreen at ISE (Hall 8, stand G351), 5-8 February 2019, using a 55” touch table with their take on a classic board game … Read more

OLED Panel Revenues to Grow 19% in 2019

Revenues from the sales of OLED display panels will increase 19% in 2019 to $31 billion, according to the latest update of DSCC’s Quarterly OLED Shipment and Fab Utilization Report. OLED panel units in all applications will grow 22% to 610 million, and shipment area will grow 35% to exceed 9 million square meters. ?With … Read more

Samsung Electronics Announces New Premiere Partnerships for ‘The Frame’

Samsung Electronics announced that it has partnered with three prominent global museums and art galleries, Uffizi Galleries (Italy), Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, and The Van Gogh Museum (Netherlands), to bring world-renowned masterpieces directly to consumers’ homes through Samsung’s lifestyle TV ‘The Frame’. Through these premiere museums art galleries partnerships and concession, Samsung … Read more

Samsung Unveils World’s Largest Onyx Cinema LED Screen at Beijing Capital Cinema

Samsung Electronics unveiled its largest-ever 3D-ready Onyx screen at Capital Cinema located in the Xicheng district in Beijing, China at a grand opening ceremony on December 7. Samsung’s latest 14-meter Onyx Cinema LED screen is now available in the market for movie theaters across the globe. “Our new Onyx display reflects a momentous step for … Read more

Worldwide Spending on Augmented and Virtual Reality Expected to Surpass $20 Billion in 2019, According to IDC

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Worldwide spending on augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) is forecast to be nearly $20.4 billion in 2019, an increase of 68.8% over the $12.1 billion International Data Corporation (IDC) expects will be spent this year. The latest update to IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Augmented and Virtual Reality Spending Guide also shows that worldwide spending on … Read more

E Ink Shows New Display Technology

One performance goal of a digital paper device is to provide the user with a reading and writing experience that is indistinguishable from that experienced with actual pen on paper. In an attempt to enable this goal, E Ink Holdings Inc. (headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan) presented the company’s latest digital paper during Breakout Session 2 … Read more

C3Nano Announces the Opening of its First Mass Production Factory in China

C3Nano, Inc. (“C3Nano”), the leader in silver nanowire-based transparent conductive technologies for the touch sensor, display, and flexible electronics industry, today announced the grand opening of its mass production factory in Changzhou, China. Built in partnership with the National High-Tech District of Changzhou, China, the 14,373 square foot facility will serve as C3Nano’s Asian manufacturing … Read more