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Panono’s New Owner Makes Offer to Backers

by Bob Raikes

Panano was a developer of 360º cameras that was sold to pay the company’s debt. (Panono is Sold). Now the new owners (Professional360 GmbH, a subsidiary of Bryanston Group AG) have said that they …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| AR/VR| Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 01

Mobile Projector is Designed for iPhone

by Bob Raikes

Aiptek has set up a Kickstarter project for the OrbitBeam, a projector designed for use with iPhones, from 6/6 plus and up (or Android above 4.2 using Miracast). It also has a battery case …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pico Projectors| Vol 24 - Issue 42

Pimax 8K Headset Beats Oculus Rift Kickstarter Record

by Andrew Fenn

Pimax’s 8K virtual reality headset has now raised $3.22 million on Kickstarter from 4,955 backers—surpassing Oculus Rift’s previous record of $2.44 million—with four days to go. The Kickstarter campaigns for Pimax’s 8K headset and …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Zwim Developing HUD for Swimmers

by Bob Raikes

Zwim from South Korea has developed a pair of goggles for swimmers and with an integrated HUD. The group has started an Indiegogo project and had raise $12,400 from a goal of $20,000 when …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Head Up Displays HUDs| Mobile Display Monitor| Sports and Stadiums| Vol 24 - Issue 41

The MovieMask Portable Cinema HMD

by Arthur Berman

MovieMask (Oslo, Norway) is developing the next offerings in the company’s “portable cinema” line of HMD products. The original idea behind the MovieMask was the thought that “today’s media consumption is more and more …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 40

The Globe: A Spherical Volumetric Display

by Arthur Berman

Catleytech (London, UK) is developing a spherical volumetric display. It is formed from a ring of rotating LEDs and depends on the persistence of vision effect. The imaging system in the Globe includes a …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Large Display Monitor| LED| Vol 24 - Issue 39

Luxedo Fails on Kickstarter

by Matthew Brennesholtz

A month ago, I wrote an article “Projection Mapping Comes Home” about a company, Siruisly Creative LLC, that was trying to develop the Luxedo projection mapping system for homes and small businesses and finance …

Tags:Back Panel| Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Large Display Monitor| Projection Mapping| Vol 24 - Issue 29

New Ticwatch Makes the Jump to Android Wear

by Andrew Fenn

Chinese smartwatch manufacturer Mobvoi will abandon its proprietary Ticwatch OS in favour of Android Wear 2.0. The forthcoming Ticwatch S and E will run Google’s second-generation smartwatch operating system in response to consumer feedback …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 24 - Issue 27| Wearables

SunScreen Develops Sunlight Readable Companion Display

by Bob Raikes

SunScreen Display Technologies LLC of Orange County California has an Indiegogo launch that is promoting a sunlight-readable display that can be used to display content from a smartphone, a laptop, a camera viewfinder or …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Large Display Monitor| Sunlight Readable Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 24

RaphTime is Developing a Mixed Reality HMD

by Arthur Berman

RaphTime (Beijing, China) is developing a mixed reality HMD product called the RT Fusion. Similar to the more prominent HoloLens HMD from Microsoft, the RaphTime device is see-through, overlaying video imagery on a view …

Tags:AR/VR| Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mixed Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 23

Introducing the Exchimp AI1 All-in-One VR Headset

by Arthur Berman

As one of the first steps in developing the concept for their Virtual Reality headset, the team at Exchimp considered the products currently on the market. On the one hand, it was possible to …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 19

MyKronoz Hits Top 50 Kickstarter Projects

by Bob Raikes

We reported on MyKronoz when we saw them at CES. The company told us that time that it has sold around two million smartwatches since 2013. Now the company has said that its ZeTime …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 24 - Issue 16