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Suppliers, customers and industry watchers gathered at OLEDs World Summit 2018 in San Francisco on Sept 18-20 to discuss industry trends. OLED display has established its strong presence in smartwatches, AR/VR as well as in the premium smartphone and TV markets. Suppliers are striving to bring in new materials, manufacturing process, solutions and production capacities … Read more
To broaden the interest globally in the CES Las Vegas event, over the last few years, the CTA has held events in Europe, well in advance of the show, to promote it. The London event does not seem to have done well and so this year, the event was again in Paris and Amsterdam. We … Read more
Integrated with the Vehicle Displays technical conference, held September 25-26, 2018 at the Burton Manor Conference Center in Livonia, Michigan, was an exhibition in which 82 companies rented 90 exhbition tables, up from 78 tables and approximately 70 companies last year. Our report includes a rather small sampling of the 82 companies that exhibited at … Read more
1. Bob O’Brien (left) and Silviu Pala (next to O’Brien) present the best booth in show award to an apparently delighted 3M team. (Photo: Ken Werner) On the second day of the exhibits, Silviu Pala, Director of the SID Metro Detroit Chapter (which sponsored the event) announced that 3M had won the award for the … Read more
TronXYZ is seeing years into the future of 3D technology, far beyond the horizon of what the industry thought possible. TronXYZ’s technology set includes stereo visual computing with stereo visual input, real-time 3D glasses free rendering, modelling, display, and other computer vision processing. One of their virtual reality products, the SuperD VR One, has an … Read more
We’ve reported several times over recent years on SuperD, a Chinese company that has been developing 3D and that quite impressed us when we saw the company’s autostereo technology at MWC in 2016. (SuperD’s 3D Box Tracks the User) The company set up a subsidiary in the US in 2014, TronXYZ, but dropped out of … Read more
Sony’s Crystal LED technology has been approved by DCI for use in commercial cinemas in a version that is 5.1m wide and 2.7m high. A test report showing the parts used in the system is available here. The display module was Sony’s ZRD-2 (78 of them). Peak brightness of the modules is 1,000 cd/m², but … Read more
Airtame of Denmark, which started in 2014, has released its second generation HDMI wireless dongle for professional applications. The dongle has a Kensington lock socket for theft prevention and the new version has five times the Wi-fi speed of the previous one, with twice the range (using a Cypress chip). With more RAM, the device … Read more
MevoFit has launched its new Bold HR Fitness Band in India. The device features a 0.96″ OLED display with smart light sensor technology and gesture support. It’s IP68 dust and waterproof, so it’s suitable for swimming, and it displays “sedentary alerts” to remind users to stay active. The device can track heart rate, sleep, steps, … Read more
Reports from China, quoted by the OLED Info blog have said that AUO of Taiwan is looking at building an OLED production line based on inkjet printer technology for monitors and automotive applications. The report identifies JOLED as the supplier of the equipment (which would be unsurprising as JOLED said recently that it wanted to … Read more
German airline Lufthansa has released an augmented reality experience in collaboration with Kolle Rebbe and Headraft, whereby customers can use the Shazam app to access “walk-in ads” — essentially, 360° videos of holiday destinations such as Hong Kong and New York City, complete with sound effects. Users can view the location from different angles using … Read more
We saw a lot of concepts at the show which we present here. It was hard or impossible to get details! This DS brand (Citroen) concept seemed to have no display and the optics for a HUD would be tricky! Image:Meko GAC of China had this concept which used a very wide display configuration. Image:Meko … Read more
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