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Facebook Looks at Snapchat for AR Ideas

by Norbert Hildebrand

During the Facebook’s F8 developers conference Mark Zuckerberg announced the closed beta release of an AR platform that seems to be modeled on the Snapchat augmented reality app, ‘Lenses’. Facebook admits that it wrongly …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Cameras| | Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 15

DSC Sales Dropped in 2016

by Bob Raikes

The digital camera market continues to decline rapidly and the Japan-based Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA) said that in 2016, Japanese vendors shipped 24.19 million cameras, a drop of 31.7% from 2015. Consumer …

Tags:Cameras| Japan| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 14

UltraHD Action Camera with 60fps Available

by Bob Raikes

Yi Technology said that it has made a 60fps version of its UltraHD Yi 4K+ Action Camera available (4K Action Camera Available Now in the UK) and it’s now being sold on Amazon and …

Tags:4k| Cameras| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 12

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Positive Huawei P10 Review by DxOMark

by Alan Spencer

Huawei’s P10 phone was unveiled at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona (Huawei Promotes Dual Cameras – Shows Watch 2). DxOMark’s engineers tested the phone’s camera and gave it an overall DxOMark Mobile …

Tags:Cameras| Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 10

Largan Precision Sees Revenues up on Year

by Alan Spencer

Largan Precision, a manufacturer of smartphone lens modules, reported February revenues of $112 million, down 9.22% on month, mainly due to fewer working days in the month, but up 69.46% on year. In the …

Tags:Cameras| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 09

Panasonic still in CE – If not in US TV

by Bob Raikes

Panasonic held its regular press event and, as it has done at the last several that we have attended, it started with discussions about smart cities. The “Smart cities” topic is a big story …

Tags:Automotive| Cameras| CES 2017| Large Display Monitor| Li-Fi| Mobile Display Monitor| Panasonic| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Samsung to Upgrade Galaxy A Series with 12-Mp Front Camera

by Bob Raikes

ET News of Korea said that Samsung’s Galaxy A series (models A5 and A7) will be upgraded to include 12 megapixel front cameras and that the cameras will be significantly better. The A3 will …

Tags:Cameras| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 01

Generic Stabiliser Developed in France

by Bob Raikes

It’s not a display, but knowing that readers are interested in ‘visual things’, I thought that it was worth reporting on a new device developed by a “top 5 French Kickstarter” project to develop …

Tags:Back Panel| Cameras| Mobile Display Monitor| Video Quality| Vol 23 - Issue 50

RealD Develops Synthetic Shutter Solution for HFR

by Chris Chinnock

RealD has turned to signal processing techniques to create a novel way of processing frames of video. Called a synthetic shutter, the technique can be used with high frame rate capture and a shutter …

Tags:Cameras| HFR - High Frame Rate| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 43

Google In Trouble with Pixel Camera

by Bob Raikes

Google got a lot of praise for its Pixel phones and quoted DxOMark ratings as the highest ever received for the quality of the camera, but buyers have been complaining of lens flare seen …

Tags:Cameras| Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 42

MMD Secures Monitor With Hidden Camera

by Tom Allen

The B2B Philips monitor that MMD previewed last week, and will appear at IFA 2016, is officially known as the 272B7QPTKEB. This 27″ display features a pop-up webcam that is usually hidden in the …

Tags:Cameras| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| MMD (AOC Philips)| Security| Vol 23 - Issue 31