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AGC Offers Infrared Transparent Glass for Automotive and Touch Panel Applications

by Norbert Hildebrand

AGC, the Japanese glass company is offering an infrared transparent glass that would work well for automotive LiDAR and infrared touch panel applications. (Cars, Yes; Display Technology, Not So Much) As was demonstrated by …

Tags:Automotive| Infrared Touch| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 06

Audi Releases Quattro Coaster AR App for iOS

by Andrew Fenn

Audi has released a new AR app, a collaboration between Audi Norway and Norwegian creative agency POL Oslo. The Quattro Coaster app is triggered by the company’s TV adverts; when the app detects an …

Tags:Advertising| AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 06

Hella OLED Lighting Modules Featured in 2018 Audi A8

by Andrew Fenn

Hella, a lighting and electronics developer based in Germany, has revealed that it was the company behind the OLED lighting modules featured in the new 2018 edition of the Audi A8. The vehicle’s OLED …

Tags:Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 25 - Issue 05

Continental and Nvidia to Partner on Autonomous Cars

by Bob Raikes

Nvidia has signed a deal with Continental, a Tier One automotive supplier, under which Continental will use the Nvidia Drive platform to develop its autonomous car platform. The companies aim to develop systems that …

Tags:Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 25 - Issue 05

Byton e-Car Launch Exploits Next Gen Displays

by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it, at the CES 2018 press day, new kid on the block, China car maker Future Mobility Corp. (FMC), launched its new electric car brand, Byton, that features a completely …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2018| Curved Displays| Vol 25 - Issue 05

Samsung Acquires Harman and Finds Synergy

by Ken Werner

Whenever one company merges with or devours another, it predicts that a cornucopia of synergistic value will result. More often than not, it doesn’t, but since Samsung completed its acquisition of Harman in March …

Tags:Automotive| Quantum Dots| Vol 25 - Issue 04

CES Highlights Automotive Developments and Safety

by Bob Raikes

One thing that struck me at the annual technofest that is CES was the incredible speed of the push to autonomous and computing centric cars. I was particularly impressed with what Nvidia showed, although …

Tags:Automotive| Nvidia| Testing| Vol 25 - Issue 04

ICDM Sets Up Automotive Display Measurement Committee

by Andrew Fenn

The International Committee for Display Metrology has announced a new Automobile Displays Subcommittee. It will be chaired by Michael Becker of Instrument Systems. This new subcommittee will address many of the performance issues of …

Tags:Automotive| Back Panel| ICDM| Mobile Display Monitor| Testing| Vol 25 - Issue 04

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Continental: The Future of Mobility is Electric

by Ken Werner

Continental is a huge global Tier 1 supplier to automotive industry that is develops and delivers subsystems for nearly every imaginable automotive function. (A different division is the well-know tire maker.) Among the concepts …

Tags:audio| Automotive| CES 2018| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 04

CES Busy and Bigger than Ever!

by Bob Raikes

CES was a big show with more space than ever before at 2.75 million sq. ft. (255,500 m2) and the total attendance was expected to be over 170,000. The event seemed very busy this …

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Harman and Samsung Find Synergy — Really!

by Ken Werner

Whenever one company merges with or devours another, it predicts that a cornucopia of synergistic value will result. More often than not, it doesn’t, but since Samsung completed its acquisition of Harman in March …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2018| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 25 - Issue 02

Has Visteon Found a Sweet Spot?

by Ken Werner

Tier 1 automotive supplier Visteon thinks it has found a display sweet spot. While other automotive suppliers are developing clusters and cockpits with OLEDs and QLEDs, Visteon feels that exploiting the current oversupply of …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2018| Head Up Displays HUDs| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 25 - Issue 02