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Project Ara is Coming This Year

by Tom Allen

Google has announced that its Project Ara modular phone will become a reality this year. Developers will be able to buy a phone with six module slots in the autumn, with a consumer model …

Tags:Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 20

Google and IMAX Partner to Develop Groundbreaking Virtual Reality Camera

by Isaac Oburu

Google and IMAX Corporation today announced at Google’s annual developer conference, Google I/O, that the companies are working to develop a cinema-grade virtual reality (VR) camera – the IMAX® VR camera – to enable …

Tags:Cameras| Google| IMAX| Virtual Reality

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 20

by Tom Allen

Image: MekoMost of the H-series TVs from Hisense, which were introduced at CES 2016 (Hisense Begins Sharp Licensing), are now available in the USA. The H8 ($600 50H8C $700 and 55H8C), H5 ($200 – …

IMAX Plans VR Experiences

by Tom Allen

IMAX has announced a partnership with Starbreeze AB (creator of the StarVR headset) to create a location-based VR offering. Shopping centres, multiplex and other venues will be able to use this to offer immersive …

New Partners for Android TV

by Tom Allen

Google announced new Android TV partners at I/O 2016. They include Xiaomi, Grundig, Vestel, Beko and RCA. The first sets from RCA will be launched in the USA in June, while Beko and Vestel …

Tags:Android| Google| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 20

Google Sets Specs for New VR Platform

by Tom Allen

At its annual Google I/O developer conference this week, Google unveiled a new platform for virtual reality built on the next version of Android (Adroid N), known as Daydream. It will be a combination …

Tags:Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 19

NComputing Launches Chromebook CX110 and Chrome app

by Isaac Oburu

Today NComputing launches the , giving U.S. schools the ability to easily run Windows applications on their Chromebooks. More than half of all computers used in U.S. K-12 schools are Chromebooks, and now NComputing …

Tags:Chromebooks| Google| USA| Windows

Google Patents Tearable Display

by Norbert Hildebrand

According to a patent Google received in the US, the firm is envisioning a display that can be physically separated by the user to provide information on the separated display portion. The patent was …

The New York Times to Deliver 300K Google Cardboard Viewers to Digital Subscribers

by Isaac Oburu

In partnership with Google, The New York Times will distribute 300,000 Google Cardboard viewers to its most loyal digital subscribers next month in conjunction with the publication of “Seeking Pluto’s Frigid Heart,” a stereoscopic …

Tags:Google| USA

Vizio Prepares More SmartCast

by Tom Allen

Vizio has continued to expand the built-in Chromecast functionality (‘Google Cast’) of its TV sets. The P-Series was introduced in early April (Vizio Integrates Google Cast, Scraps Tuner), and now the company has described …

Google Wants to Use OTT to ‘Blow Up’ Current Model

by Tom Allen

Chris Levendos, head of network deployment at Google Fibre, has said that the company would prefer an OTT TV model to its current strategy of fibre TV. Speaking at the Incompas Show in the …

Tags:Google| Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 14

Vizio Integrates Google Cast, Scraps Tuner

by Tom Allen

In late February, Variety reported on a new Vizio TV series that would feature built-in Chromecast functionality from Google (Google Extends Cast Protocol Outside Android). The sets would also use an Android tablet as …