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LG Agrees OLED TV Promotion Deal With Google

by Tom Allen

LG has signed a marketing agreement with Google, which will see the search giant help to promote LG’s OLED TVs on its various platforms, such as YouTube. LG’s Kim Ki-wan (centre left), head of …

AR and VR Sales to Rise 10 Times by 2018

by Milos Pavlovic

CCS Insight has predicted that 2.5 million VR and AR devices will be sold this year – increasing to 24 million in 2018. CCS Insight praised the work of company’s such as Google, which …

Huawei ‘Confirmed’ as Google Partner

by Tom Allen

There have been repeated rumours that a Chinese maker would build Google’s next Nexus smartphone, and now Huawei has won that honour. A source, apparently a Huawei UK employee, has told IB Times that …

Google Jump Captures the World in 360 Degree 3D

by Arthur Berman

One of the challenges faced by participants in the Virtual Reality industry is to make creating and watching VR simpler for consumers. To that end, Google has launched a new open source VR platform …

Tags:Google| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 25

Google Smart Lens Kicks Off DAC 2015

by Tom Allen

Click to enlargeGoogle’s glucose-monitoring contact lens was a prototype a year ago (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 4), but was presented as a named product at the opening of the Design Automation Conference this …

Tags:Back Panel| Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 24| Wearables

Special Wearables Address on Android Wear and Google’s Wish List (WF1)

by Phillip Wright

The opening presentation at the Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference organized by IHS at the 2015 SID Display Week was delivered by Sidney Chang, Head of Business Development for Android Wear at Google. Chang opened …

Google Plans Chrome Players With AOpen

by Tom Allen

Sources say that Google is to launch two Chrome-based digital signage players, with AOpen, in the middle of Q3’15. Production was scheduled for Q2, but was deferred due to to certification issues. One product, …

Tags:Google| Large Display Monitor| Media Players| Vol 22 - Issue 23

Google and Qualcomm do the Tango

by Tom Allen

The next version of Google’s 3D-sensing smartphone, Project Tango (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 9), will be driven by a Qualcomm processor. It will be the Snapdragon 810.

Google Looks to Radars as Camera Replacement

by Tom Allen

Click to enlargeA new sensor, called Project Soli, which can be used to accurately track tiny hand movements has been shown off at Google I/O. The chip, for wearables, differs from other motion trackers …

Google Shows Off Android M

by Tom Allen

Android M, the next version of the popular OS, has been announced at Google I/O. Google has focused on improving the quality of the platform. However, new features have also been added, which include …

Tags:Android| Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 23

Google is Committed to Cardboard. Really.

by Tom Allen

Google Cardboard (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 26) was presumed to be a simple marketing stunt. Google, however, appears to be taking the device seriously – enough that the company has released a second …

Tags:Google| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 23| Wearables

Tech Companies Dominate Brand-Value Rankings

by Tom Allen

Millward Brown’s annual ‘Brandz’ report (http://tinyurl.com/pmmjurd) contains quite the win for technology firms: four are in the top five, and six in the top 10. Apple (the overall most valuable brand in the world), …