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Amazon announced a raft of new products at its launch event earlier this week, including the Fire TV Recast, a box that connects to a US digital antenna, providing the ability to watch and record live TV and stream to other devices, either via the user’s home network or capable cellular networks. The device comes … Read more
Nvidia will host a webinar at 9 am PST on October 9th to introduce its new Turing architecture and line-up of Quadro RTX GPUs. Attendees will also get a behind-the-scenes look into the creation of a cinematic real-time ray-traced demo using Unreal Engine 4 and the Quadro RTX 6000. Viewers can learn how the new … Read more
Sony’s PlayStation Vita handheld console will be officially discontinued in Japan next year. The company has also gone on the record to say that it currently has no plans to launch a new handheld system in the future. The Vita launched in 2011 as the most powerful handheld console ever made, capable of providing console-quality … Read more
Following recent hirings from companies including Google and Microsoft, Facebook has posted at least four additional job openings seeking embedded software, digital design and silicon prototyping and emulation engineers to help develop custom chips for AR hardware. The posts say: “Our chips will enable AR devices where our real and virtual world will mix and … Read more
Walmart will officially launch its VR training programme next month, having ordered 17,000 Oculus Go headsets, which it will distribute to its stores across the US. Staff will use the hardware to studycustomer service skills, compliance and the technology they will be using in their role. Ten stores took part in a pilot test earlier … Read more
Vuzix Corporation (NASDAQ :VUZI ), (“Vuzix” or, the “Company”), a leading supplier of Smart Glasses, Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products for the consumer and enterprise markets, is pleased to announce that the Company has signed an agreement with a new global Tier-1 Aerospace firm to build a customized commercial avionics waveguide-based head mounted display … Read more
Vuzix, a supplier of smart glasses, AR technology and products for the consumer and enterprise markets, has signed an agreement with a new global tier-1 aerospace firm to build a customised commercial avionics waveguide-based head mounted display system. Under the terms of this agreement, Vuzix and its new customer have embarked on a multi-stage development … Read more
Insight Media has released more details about the extra Samsung LED Cinema session being added on to this year’s Display Summit. A morning session of HDR and SDR demos, audio demos, presentations and commentary will take place at the Winnetka Pacific Theatre on the morning of October 4th. This is the first commercial theatre in … Read more
Pay-per-view movie service Vudu has rolled out Ultra HD and HDR capabilities to 2016 and 2017 Sony TVs. Owners of these devices can now access content in UHD, HDR10 and Dolby Vision. Users who don’t have auto-update switched on can update their Vudu app to version 4.2.52 via the Google Play Store. Sony’s 2016 and … Read more
Samsung has relaunched its Evolution Kit initiative for 2018. The programme, designed to allow users to upgrade their Smart TV technology every year, originally kicked off in 2012, but it was phased out a few years later. Following a number of consumer complaints, where many users were able to obtain full refunds on their purchases, … Read more
UEFA, the administrative body behind Champions League and Europa League, has announced it is developing its own streaming service. Marketing director of football’s European governing body, Guy-Laurent Epstein, made the announcement in an interview with Spanish newspaper Palco23 but said that the OTT platform isn’t ready yet. Epstein also reiterated that the platform isn’t being … Read more
Lang Baranday AG will become one of NEC’s Swiss distribution partners from October 1st, expanding Lang’s portfolio in the AV sector and strengthening its position as a partner for rental and staging, system integration and retail solutions. At last week’s Integrated Media Solutions expo in Lucerne, the two companies jointly presented a selection of products … Read more
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