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HTC Vive Falling Behind Oculus Rift and Windows VR on Steam

The results of the latest survey from Steam reveal that HTC Vive is losing more market share to Oculus Rift and Windows VR headsets. Last month’s numbers put Oculus Rift at 47.1%, a sequential growth of 0.9% and the device’s seventh consecutive month of growth. Meanwhile, HTC Vive lost another 1.8% of its market share, … Read more

Deutsche Telekom EntertainTV OTT Package Coming Soon

Later this year, Deutsche Telekom’s EntertainTV will be made available as an OTT package, offering the service to customers of other internet providers for the first time. Users will also be able to access EntertainTV via iOS and Android apps. Timeshift, restart and replay functions, however, will remain reserved for the classic EntertainTV package using … Read more

Samsung and Dezeen Announce Winner of Design Competition

Samsung Electronics and Dezeen, a design and architectural magazine based in the UK, announced the grand prize winner of the co-hosted Dezeen x Samsung Ambient Mode Design Competition at IFA 2018. Kinetic Decor, designed by Matthew Cockeril, Stephen Waller and Peter Hälldahl of UK and Denmark-based Swift Creatives, received €8,000 ($9,295) prize money. The competition … Read more

US Army to Replace LCD Display with OLED in Fighter Pilot Helmet

An eMagin OLED display is to be used to fix an ongoing issue with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter helmet, according to several reports. The $400,000 Kopin helmet currently in use features an LCD microdisplay with an LED backlighting module that emits a green glow, impairing pilots’ visibility of carrier lights at nighttime. Image: Kopin … Read more

Image Said to be of Genuine Apple Watch Series 4 Leaks Online

Details and an image of the tentatively-named Apple Watch Series 4 has leaked, ahead of the company’s official launch event, scheduled for September 12th. The Apple Watch Series 3 launched in September 2017. The new smartwatch looks very similar to previous iterations of the device on the face of it, except for an edge-to-edge screen … Read more

LDM Vol 25 No 34 Roundup

Eizo Corp announced that the GX560 high brightness monitor has received FDA 510(k) Clearance for breast tomosynthesis and digital mammography. (Eizo 5 Megapixel Monitor uses LTPS). The monitor will be shown at the RSNA event at the end of November in Chicago. The Eizo GX560 is available as a single or dual monitor. iBase Technology … Read more

Is IFA a Little Quieter? What’s Next?

We managed to get this week’s issues done, despite the distraction of IFA, where press events started on Wednesday – thanks to the team for their help with this. So far, there is not a great deal of big news – TV makers are promoting OLEDs, except for Sharp and Samsung which are pushing 8K … Read more

Vision, Displays and Brownfields to Healthfields (B2H)

I suppose the first thing we need to cover is “what do we mean by brownfields and healthfields?” Let’s start with some dictionary definitions: brown·field /?broun?f?ld/1. Unused properties, such as abandoned gas stations, landfills, junkyards, blighted or vacant areas. health·field /helTH?f?ld/1. Unused brownfields that have been cleaned up, reinvested in and reinvigorated, thus becoming healthy … Read more

DisplayMate Gives Note 9 an ‘A+’

Ray Soneira of DisplayMate has conducted one of his in-depth reviews of the display on the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 which was launched globally last week (Samsung Unpacked 2018: The Galaxy Note 9 is Here). Needless to say, if you have seen his previous comments on Samsung’s displays in its flagship smartphones (he doesn’t bother … Read more

VR Improves Vision

Virtual Reality is making inroads in many areas these days, but none are as interesting as in the field of vision health. That’s because many people incorrectly suppose that healthy vision and VR are incompatible realities: we often hear that VR makes people sick, dizzy or uncomfortable. VR at Optometry’s Meeting in Denver This summer … Read more

Mirrorcle Demonstrates MEMS-based Programmable Light Source at CES and PW18

Mirrorcle Technologies demonstrates a MEMS-based Programmable Light Source prototype at CES and in Las Vegas and at the Photonics West exhibition in San Francisco. A high-power 445-450nm (wavelength) laser beam is programmably directed onto a 10 x 10mm phosphor plate where it creates a very high brightness and luminance image. This image is projected by … Read more

Vibrant Business And Classroom Presentations With Optoma’s New Entry Range

Businesses and education establishments will have brighter, more vibrant presentations across their boardrooms, meeting rooms and classrooms with Optoma’s latest range of multipurpose professional projectors. The new models S322e, S334e, X342e and W334e boast high brightness, amazing colour, long lamp life and energy-saving features for a low overall cost of ownership. The projectors can be … Read more