Soliddd: Macular Degeneration Smart Glasses
by Jon Peddie
Helping vision-impaired people with the first true vision correction.
Tags:Health and Safety| smart glasses
Samsung Unveils Health Stack 1.0 to Streamline Research Using Wearable Devices
by Artem Alekseenko
Enhances digital health research by enabling researchers to build apps, backend servers, and analysis tools for wearable devices running on Android and Wear OS operating systems.
Tags:Health and Safety| HIMSS| Samsung
Bausch + Lomb and Heidelberg Engineering Launch SeeLuma Digital Surgical Visualization Platform for Ophthalmic Surgeons
by Artem Alekseenko
3D heads up monitor for complex procedures with enhanced visualization, ergonomics, and workflow.
Tags:Education| Head Up Displays HUDs| Health and Safety| Medical
Fire protection layer for LED displays
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Invidis reports that Screen Experts of Münster in Germany has developed a patented coating process for making LED displays fireproof and called, imaginitively enough ‘Screen Fire Protectio’ or SFP. No details of …
Tags:Health and Safety| LED| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP
Researchers explore how people adapt to cybersickness from virtual reality
by Bob Raikes
What They Say A group of researchers from Iowa State University has undertaken research into ‘cybersickness’ which can cause a number of discomfort feelings in users within just a few minutes of trying it. …
Tags:Health and Safety| Human Visual System (HVS)| Virtual Reality
Will the Schemes for the Metaverse ‘Gang Agley’?
by Bob Raikes
‘The best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley’* seems an appropriate start to an article in Burns Week when it applies to the production as well as the topic of today’s …
Tags:Augmented Reality| Health and Safety| | Virtual Reality
LED TVs Bad for the Eyes?
by Bob Raikes
What They Say The IT Chosun reported an interview with Oh Chang-ho of LG Display who said that miniLED TVs are bad for eye health compared to OLEDs. However, he welcomed the introduction of …
Tags:Health and Safety| LG Displays (LGD)| OLED Materials
Links Week Starting 10th 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 first part of this week. CES 2022: In-Person Observations (DSCC’s Bob O …
Tags:Digital Photography| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Glass| Health and Safety| Italy| Oculus VR| Perovskite| QD OLEDs| Sky| | UltraHD & 4K
Vuzix Upgrades the Shield Safety Glasses and Updates M-Series
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Vuzix introduced its newest Vuzix Shield Smart Glasses that are intended for enterprise customers. The headset is based on a Snapdragon XR1 platform and used dual monochrome green microLED stereo displays …
Tags:Augmented Reality| Health and Safety| Microdisplays| MicroLED| Vuzix
LGD & Eyesafe Push Low Blue Light for OLED
by Bob Raikes
What They Say LG Display and Eyesafe have collaborated on a free to download whitepaper that highlights the advantages of OLED in reducing the level of the blue light that is seen by some …
Tags:Blue Light| Health and Safety
No More Burning Displays – At Least in DACH
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Invidis reported a talk at the Best Medientechnik 2021 event that highlighted the issues of fireproofing of digital signage. The integration supplier, Ben Hur, collaborated with Lang AG and the Job …
Tags:Digital Signage| Health and Safety
An Interesting Upgrade to an Interesting AR Headset
by Arthur Berman
The X-Craft headset launched by Rokid Inc. (Redwood City, CA) last December does not look quite like other AR glasses products. Nor do the specifications to which the X-Craft was designed read like those …
Tags:Augmented Reality| Health and Safety| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Rugged Displays
