Empowering display industry professionals with cutting-edge insights and analysis
Total September shipments from the Taiwanese small and medium panel makers we track were up 9.7% MoM but down 4.2% YoY to 100.31 million. AU Optronics saw September sales of NT$27.44 billion ($882 million), down 103% MoM and 5.6% YoY. This brought quarterly turnover to NT$81.04 billion ($2.6 billion), up 8% QoQ but falling 7.3% … Read more
Nikkei xTech reports that Nvidia showed off a set of augmented reality glasses at the Siggraph 2018 expo in Vancouver, Canada, manufactured using proprietary 3D printing technology that enables the company to produce prototype free-form optical parts at a much lower cost than conventional methods. Image: Nikkei xTech According to Nikkei, optical devices made of … Read more
Oculus has posted a new job opening for a producer of location-based entertainment VR, leading many to believe that the company is planning to expand its efforts in the market. At last week’s Oculus Connect event, where the company’s new Oculus Quest headset was announced, head of experiences, Colum Slevin, remarked that the allure of … Read more
Vonetize is expanding the distribution of its SmartVOD Premium movie service to seven countries in Latin America — Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Panama — in partnership with LG. SmartVOD is a rental and digital purchase service for streaming in up to Ultra HD and HDR quality and is available throughout the region … Read more
London’s National Theatre has followed in the footsteps of Japan’s Shiki Theatre and launched augmented reality smart caption glasses for the hearing-impaired, developed in collaboration with its innovation partner, Accenture. Image: National Theatre Audience members will be able to use the service for any performance from any seat of any of the three National Theatre … Read more
Facebook has announced Portal and Portal+, two new video communication devices with widescreen displays and a “smart camera” that tracks users and pans and zooms automatically to keep everyone in view, as well as AI technology powered by the company’s Spark AR platform. The standard version features a 10″ 1280 × 800 display, while the … Read more
Karen Chupka of the CTA moderated an interesting panel session on mobility and focusing largely on autonomous cars. Although there was relatively little on displays, we thought the session was worth reporting. The panel was Christophe Périllat is COO of Valeo which is working on many areas of autonmous technology including sensors. Pierre-Olivier Desmeurs is … Read more
CES used to have a ‘death by Powerpoint’-style event just before the opening of the event when they would bombard us with data about the markets. However, the CTA, which runs CES has changed the event to become less data-driven (and, as we reported from CES, that the CTA is no longer working with GfK … Read more
Optoma, a market leader in audiovisual solutions, announced it will unveil a new range of interactive flat panel displays (IFPDs) at ISE 2019. Thierry Millet, Optoma EMEA Managing Director said: “Optoma is no longer just a projection company – we are in the business of big imagery – whether that is projection, LED displays or … Read more
We don’t get a lot of comments about the topics chosen by our writers on Display Daily. However, recently I got a mail from a reader who asked “Why don’t you do an article about the definition of mini and microLEDs?”. LEDs, historically, have been pretty big chips. The first LED displays used individual LEDs … Read more
Fitbit (NYSE: FIT), the leading global wearables brand, announced the availability of Fitbit Charge 3™ at major retailers worldwide, online and at Fitbit.com for $149.95 (USD) beginning October 7. Charge 3, the latest evolution of the best-selling Charge family of devices,1 delivers a premium swimproof design with a large touchscreen display, our most advanced health … Read more
Fitbit has launched its Fitbit Charge 3 wearable fitness tracker worldwide, featuring a swim-proof design, a greyscale OLED display 40% larger than the Charge 2 and what it calls “the most advanced health and fitness features on a tracker”, with up to seven days of battery life. The device features PurePulse heart rate tracking, a … Read more
Jon Peddie Research
4 St. Gabrielle Ct.
Tiburon, California 94920
415-435-9368
© 2026 Jon Peddie Research
