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MDM Round Up CES 2018

by Bob Raikes

Analogix was in the South Hall at the show and was highlighting that its DisplayPort/SlimPort chips are being used in the Microsoft Mixed Reality reference design. The chips have signal conditioning so that the …

Audi A8 Will Have Three Digital Displays

by Bob Raikes

Audi’s next A8 executive car is expected to have three digital displays – the instrument panel, a centre stack console and a new display for the infotainment system. The two centre displays will be …

Tags:Automotive| Haptics| Mobile Display Monitor| Touch Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 27

VR Boosts the Haptics Industry

by Alan Spencer

A new report from IDTechEx Research, finds that the haptics industry will be worth $2.8 billion by 2027. Haptics are key technologies enhancing the user experience, such as vibrating smartphones or tension building in …

Tags:Haptics| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 16

GelTouch To Get to Market in 2018

by Bob Raikes

We reported on GelTouch Technologies from Berlin in a Display Daily (GelTouch Enabled Touchscreens May Eventually Provide “Buttons-on-Demand”) a couple of years ago and this week the company was planning to show its technology …

Tags:Haptics| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Touch| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Haptic perception: A primer

by Ed Colgate

Despite having spent my career immersed in haptics, it is still shockingly difficult to offer up a clear and concise summary of the field. This is likely due to the fact that my head …

Tags:Haptics| Ready for Publication| Vol 24 - Issue 07

Redux Wants to Bring Display Surfaces to Life

by Bob Raikes

We met with Redux, a company that is based in the UK, in Cambridge and is working on sound and haptics. It describes its technology as ‘bringing surfaces to life’. The company was set …

TanvasTouch Adds Haptic Capability to Touchscreen Displays

by Arthur Berman

Tanvas (Chicago, IL), a startup out of the Neuroscience and Robotics Laboratory at Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering (Evanston, IL), is developing a novel means to add haptic capability to touchscreen displays. The technology …

Tags:Haptics| R&D (Research & Development)| Touch| Vol 24 - Issue 03

Post CES 2017 Round-Up

by Bob Raikes

We do our best to cover all we should at CES, but it’s always ‘drinking from the firehose’. So here are some items that we missed but saw reported elsewhere, or that for some …

VR Touch Will be at CES

by Bob Raikes

VRTouch is a new haptic wearable device that is designed to complement a VR headset. VRTouch is fully wireless, and has the size of a ring. The scalability of the concept involving one, two, …

Tags:Back Panel| Haptics| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 50

Sony to Launch Haptic-Projection Experience

by Chris Chinnock

If a ‘haptic-projection experience’ sounds new and a little different, it is. But that is what Sony focused on at the recent CineAsia event. The idea is similar to some of the VR experiences …

Kyocera Experiments with Haptics & Gesture for Autos

by Bob Raikes

Kyocera started by showing us a demonstration of an ASIC that it has developed to allow haptic feedback, using piezoelectric actuators. Especially in automotive and industrial applications, it is important that the user has …

4D Cinema

by Matthew Brennesholtz

The SMPTE educational webcast on October 20th was titled “From 4D Cinema to Haptic Cinematography: Challenges & Issues.” It was presented by two researchers from Technicolor Research & Innovation, Philippe Guillotel (who did most …

Tags:Cinema| Haptics| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 43