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Consumer — but Really Automotive — Telematics Show at CES

by Ken Werner

Kia proudly claimed it had been issued Nevada’s first autonomous vehicle license license plate (photo), while Mercedes Benz said its 2017 E-Class is the first “standard-production” vehicle to receive an autonomous license from the …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 02

More than 200 Million Virtual Reality Head-Mounted Displays to be Sold by 2020, According to Tractica

by Isaac Oburu

While virtual reality (VR) is not a new technology in concept and can trace its origins back to the 1950s, the past few years have witnessed a golden era of investment and product development …

Tags:CES 2016| HTC| Oculus VR| sony| Virtual Reality

HDR and WCG to Become Mainstream

by Chris Chinnock

I spent almost the entire time at CES looking at the High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Wide Color Gamut (WCG) ecosystem. One tutorial white paper on these technologies, along with a table of current …

Tags:CES 2016| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Vol 23 - Issue 02| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

CES and The Upside of VR

by Steve Sechrist

Among the hottest topics at this year’s CES was virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR for short.) The technology has received much ink of late, especially for an aging technology that dates back …

CTA Looks Beyond the “Magnificent Seven”

by Bob Raikes

Dubravac of the CTA. Image:Meko LtdAs usual, the CES press events kicked off with a market briefing and “Technology Trends” talk by the CTA which runs CES. This year, the event was in a …

Samsung Display Raises the Contrast Bar

by Bob Raikes

We managed to squeeze into the Samsung Display suite at the end of its sessions and we had to speed around, as the exhibition contractors started dismantling the displays at 5:30 on the dot …

USB-IF Pushes Type C

by Bob Raikes

The USB Implementors Forum (USB-IF) was in a hotel suite in the Venetian hotel and was promoting Type C connectivity. We met with Rahman Ismail who is employed by Intel, but works on the …

Tags:CES 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| USB| Vol 23 - Issue 02

ViXS Pivoting to Unlock Value and Looks to Vidity

by Bob Raikes

ViXS has been through something of a traumatic year. We met with Perry Chappell, VP of Worldwide Sales who filled us in on recent developments. The company has not been bringing in revenues in …

Cima NanoTech: Pro-cap Writ Large

by Ken Werner

In its suite in the Venetian Hotel during CES, Cima Nanotech (Singapore) showed a 65″ LCD monitor fitted with the company’s projective capacitive touch screen. Also shown was an InFocus 40″ monitor with Cima …

Tags:CES 2016| Cima Nanotech| Touch Interfaces| Vol 23 - Issue 02

Lattice Promotes MHL and Snap

by Bob Raikes

Lattice Semiconductor took over the space previously occupied by Silicon Image, which Lattice acquired earlier this year (Lattice Semiconductor Closes Acquisition of Silicon Image). The company was promoting SuperMHL (although the MHL group had …

Broadcom Pushes Wireless to Extremes

by Bob Raikes

We met up with Broadcom, which is in the process of being acquired by Avago Technologies (a deal that should be complete by 1st February). However, the setup was the same as previous years …

Intel Shows Thunderbold 3 and New Compute Sticks

by Norbert Hildebrand

While the Intel Compute Stick and Thunderbolt technologies are not completely new, they were either shown at CES for the first time or replaced with newer models. The Thunderbolt 3 is the Intel implementation …