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Foxconn Hit by Covid Restrictions in China

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Foxconn has shutdown its facility in Shenzen after Chinese authorities imposed a partial lockdown due to a rise in Covid-19 cases, Nikkei reported. There were reported to be 60 new infections …

Tags:China| Covid-19| Foxconn (Honhai)

Fatigue, Techlash, and the Great Escape in Education

by Len Scrogan

I never wanted to write this article. Or maybe I really did intend to write it all along, having predicted this all would happen exactly a year ago. I predicted a techlash coming from …

Tags:Covid-19| Education

AR Lags VR a Lot in Volume

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Counterpoint Research put out an interesting chart that showed the split of market shipments of XR (AR and VR) by type. The chart doesn’t show anything that we haven’t already reported, …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Covid-19| Market Data| Virtual Reality

Links Week Ending 21st January 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. (quite a few this week as we …

Tags:Advertising| Automotive| Blu-ray| Covid-19| CPUs| Events| Mediatek| Mergers & Acquisitions| PCs| Roku| Smart TV| Streaming Video| Vizio| Wi-Fi

Compal halts Taiwan production Because of Omicron

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reported that Compal Electronics, a supplier to Dell and Amazon among others and the 2nd largest contract maker of notebooks , is halting production at its factory in Pingzhen in …

Tags:Compal| Covid-19| Dell| Foxconn (Honhai)| Quanta| Taiwan

ISE Postponed to May

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Given the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of Covid, it’s no surprise that ISE has decided to postpone the event, which was due to take place in Barcelona at the …

Tags:CES 2022| Covid-19| ISE 2022

Links Week Commencing 13th December 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. https://youtu.be/WU0gvPcc3jQ – check out this 10 minute …

Tags:Android| BenQ| Consoles| Covid-19| Desktop Monitors| Graphics Software| LG Electronics (LGE)| The Metaverse| TVs (TV Sets)| Virtual Reality

Location-based VR studios are growing in popularity.

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Forbes magazine spoke to the CEO of an LBE VR company, Spree Interactive at AWE in Santa Clara. The firm makes ‘free roam’ attractions and others such as VR Bumper Car …

Tags:Covid-19| Location-based Entertainment (LBE)| Virtual Reality

Infocomm As Bad as You Can Imagine for Attendance

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The DailyDooh, which rarely misses the chance to ‘kick a man when he’s down’, reported that attendence at the recent Infocomm 21 event was just 7,335, below earlier estimates. There were …

Tags:Covid-19| Infocomm 2021

NAB Cancelled

by Bob Raikes

What They Say I was just looking around for my last WBS article today, when in popped a PR statement from Grass Valley lamenting the cancellation of the NAB Show. We reported a couple …

Tags:Covid-19| Events| USA

Infocomm Requires Vaccinations or Tests

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Infocomm is still planning on taking place in Orlando from 23-29th of October (exhibition from 27th to 29th). However it has updated its anti-virus precautions and all visitors must be either …

Tags:Covid-19| Infocomm 2021| USA