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In the US PC market, shipments declined 0.4% compared with the third quarter of 2017, according to Gartner. While desktop shipments were flat, mobile PC shipments slightly declined compared with a year ago. The major driver of the market continued to be business PC demand. Principal analyst Mikako Kitigawa commented: “The third-quarter results confirmed the … Read more
Google has a new version of its Chromecast dongle that boosts the frame rate of 1080p video to 60fps and also adds support for Google Home speakers, so that voice control can be used to select programmes. The company has also added support for showing photos from Google photos. There is a promise of a … Read more
See-through light field displays are a possible building block for the next generation of augmented reality devices. There is, however, one standout problem associated with large size, see-through light field displays: the need for collimation optics. First, a few words of background information. There are a variety of approaches to implementing a see-through light field … Read more
Display Summit 2018 was held on Oct. 2-4 at two facilities: Harman International in Northridge, California and at the Pacific Winnetka theaters in Chatsworth, California. A 2-day symposium on the light field ecosystem and the HDR cinema ecosystem was held at the Harman facility. On Oct. 4th, a half-day session at Winnetka was devoted to … Read more
About 75 Display Summit attendees came to the bonus session at the Pacific Winnetka theater, home of the first commercial Samsung Onyx LED theater in the US. The session was kicked off by David Richards or Moving image Technologies (MiT) who was the overall system integrator for the installation. Their education on the product started … Read more
The afternoon session of October 3rd was dedicated to a number of other technologies and considerations around next generation cinema. Speaker Joe Kane, from Joe Kane Productions, focused on the creation of a single master, not just a single DCP as proposed by EclairColor. Kane thinks a peak luminance level of 300 cd/m² is fine … Read more
The morning of October 3rd was devoted to discussing the technology and related issues around creating an HDR solution for cinema. Dan Cryan from IHS started the session by giving an overview of the key trends and results of the cinema market. IHS analyzes the cinema market from three cultural points of view: leisure/social, media … Read more
In the afternoon session, the focus was more on advanced 3D displays. Jon Karafin from Light Field Labs started the discussion by giving a presentation most of which we have described before. It included a discussion of what he views as a light field display and what is not a light field display. Many of … Read more
Yahya Mirza from Aclertic Systems began the conference with a discussion of the computational needs for rendering light field images. His company’s goal is to “better understand what it takes to create content for future light field displays and look for opportunities to automate complicated and time consuming processes so holographic productions can be more … Read more
Vizio has enhanced the Google Assistant functionality of its SmartCast range of TVs with an expanded range of voice control features. Users with a Google Home or other Assistant-enabled device can now use voice commands for input selection as well as pausing, resuming, stopping, fast-forwarding and rewinding content. The new features will be made available … Read more
Mantis Vision, a leading provider of advanced 3D mobile sensing and 3D volumetric content acquisition and sharing technology, announced it will use the company’s AR/VR/mobile technology and AR/VR applications running on Samsung mobile devices during a demonstration at the Samsung CEO Summit 2018 on October 11th in San Francisco’sMasonic Center. The demonstration will include real-time … Read more
Mantis Vision, a provider of mobile 3D scanning technology, announced it will run its technology and applications on Samsung mobile devices during a demonstration at the Samsung CEO Summit 2018 on October 11th at San Francisco’s Masonic Center. The demonstration will include real-time 3D volumetric acquisition and real-time point cloud multicast streaming of moving people … Read more
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