I/ITSEC 2016 – Display Daily

Norxe Uses I/ITSEC to Soft Launch Projector Company

by Chris Chinnock

Off the show floor at I/ITSEC, a new projector company was launched called norxe (pronounced Norse). It is Norway-based and founded by Jorn Eriksen, who also founded projectiondesign, which was sold to Barco a …

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WorldViz Debuts Content Creation Tool Called Skofield

by Chris Chinnock

Debuted just prior to I/ITSEC at the Autodesk University event in Las Vegas, the company was also demonstrating a content creation tool called ‘Skofield’ at I/ITSEC as well. Skofield is a cloud-based application targeting …

Thales Shows Vision-Inertial Tracking Technology for MR

by Chris Chinnock

Thales bought the tracking company InterSense awhile back and it was this group that we met with at I/ITSEC 2016. They showed us a new product, dubbed IS-1500, that is designed to help with …

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Third Dimension Technologies Shows Light Field Simulator

by Chris Chinnock

Third Dimension Technologies showed off its projector-based light field simulator display at I/ITSEC 2016. They showed a similar demo at last year’s show, but this year they had a full fifth generation fighter cockpit …

Sony Shows 4K Native vs. e-Shift Demo

by Chris Chinnock

In a backroom at I/ITSEC 2016, Sony was showing a comparison of its native 4K projector vs. an e-shift model from JVC. The e-Shift model use 1080p imagers and creates two sub-fields at a …

SA Photonics Shows High Brightness See-Thru Module

by Chris Chinnock

High performance HMD maker SA Photonics showed their range of monocular and binocular head-mounted Displays (HMDs) at I/ITSEC 2016. Of note was their new monocular see-thru module that features a new OLED panel from …

Rockwell Collins Shows Multiple AR/MR Demos

by Chris Chinnock

Rockwell Collins showed several mixed reality (MR) and augmented reality (AR) applications at I/ITSEC 2016 that were good. In the mixed reality camp was a new product they call Coalescence. This is a commercially …

Nanolumens Suggest LEDs for Simulation and Training

by Chris Chinnock

LED screen maker Nanolumens was at I/ITSEC with a small LED video wall but suggesting this may offer advantages over projection solutions in many training and simulation activities. Company representative explained that they are …

JVC Shows 8K, 4K and e-shift 4K and Solutions

by Chris Chinnock

JVC’s VS2500 is the company’s e-shift 4K projector, which means it use a trio of 1920×1080 resolution LCOS imagers and an image shifting optic to create a “4K like image.” JVC admits the quality …

Immersive Audio Debuts at I/ITSEC 2016

by Chris Chinnock

Two companies showed immersive audio demos at I/ITSEC 2016 – which I think is the first time such technology has been shown at this event. Barco and JVCKenwood offered two different approaches to the …

Glass Collimator Supply Chain Expands

by Chris Chinnock

It looks like the simulation market now has three key suppliers of large area glass collimation mirrors for flight simulators: Esterline, Flight Safety and Display & Optical Technologies, Inc. (DOTI). (for an explanation of …

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Flight Safety Shows Benefit of Collimated Display

by Chris Chinnock

Flight Safety showed perhaps the best demonstration of the benefits of a collimated display I have seen. It was a side-by-side demo that showed the same content. On the left was a conventional front …

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