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Infocomm Direct Display Round-up

by Bob Raikes

3M was showing a new 65″ PCap table display that will be available in August. The company was also highlighting the object recognition and metal mesh technology that it showed at ISE. The 65″ …

Tags:Infocomm 2016| Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 23 - Issue 24

Quirk Logic Shows Largest Ever E Ink Display

by Bob Raikes

Quirk Logic was a new name to us – it’s a new company that has been established to develop a new class of product – an electronic equivalent of a flip chart based on …

Tags:E Ink| Infocomm 2016| Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 24

DS34 Nippon Seike Explains AR HUD Latency Challenges

by Bob Raikes

The final talk of the second day was from Dan Cashen of Nippon Sieke, one of the largest makers of HUDs globally. The company makes most of the HUDs in autos in Europe and …

Tags:Automotive| Display Summit 2016| Head Up Displays HUDs| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 24

DS33 TI Highlights DLP for HUDs

by Bob Raikes

Sam Martin is from TI where he works on DLP for automotive HUDs. TI has made three generations of prototype HUDs to better understand the requirements and help its customers. The field of view …

Tags:Display Summit 2016| DLP| Head Up Displays HUDs| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| TI (Texas Instruments)| Vol 23 - Issue 24

DS32 Geo Explains Processing for HUDs

by Bob Raikes

Paul Russo is from Geo Semiconductor which makes processors for HUDs. He started by saying that once you have a remote control for your TV, you will want one for ever. The same applies …

Tags:Automotive| Blend & Warp| Display Summit 2016| Head Up Displays HUDs| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 24

DS31 Barco Happy with RP Cubes for Control Rooms

by Bob Raikes

Lutz Nehrhoff von Holderberg is from Barco where he looks after the control room business. He has been in Barco for twenty years. Barco has a new 24/7 control room projector using lasers (not …

Tags:Display Summit 2016| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Narrow Bezels| Projection Cubes| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 23 - Issue 24

DS29 Digital Projection Likes LED for WCG

by Bob Raikes

Phil Laney is from Digital Projection Inc (DPI). The company invented the DLP with TI in the 1990s, Laney said. His topic was wide colour and by this he meant ‘beyond Rec. 709’. There …

Tags:Digital Projection Inc (DPI)| Display Summit 2016| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| LED Projectors| Vol 23 - Issue 24| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

DS30 Eccles Updates on Simulation Needs

by Bob Raikes

Dave Eccles is from Rockwell Collins (RC) and he said he has a great job – he gets paid to play games. Simulators are now so good that simulation counts as flight time, so …

Tags:Display Summit 2016| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Rockwell Collins| Simulation| Vol 23 - Issue 24

DS28 Mechdyne Explains Practicalities of CAVEs

by Bob Raikes

Kurt Hoffmeister is CTO from Mechdyne which is a US AV company that has been around a long time but now around 50% of its business is in 3D and immersive technologies. 30% of …

Tags:CAVEs| Display Summit 2016| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Simulation| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 24

DS27 Aptovision Predicts Death of Matrix Switches

by Bob Raikes

Justin Kennington is from Aptovision and he talked about transmitting and switching video over IP. Aptovision has chips to put HDMI over ethernet networks and we covered this in some detail in our ISE …

Tags:Display Summit 2016| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Pro AV| Video over IP (VIP)| Vol 23 - Issue 24

InfoComm International Releases New Standard for Display Image Size

by Isaac Oburu

InfoComm International®, the trade association representing the commercial audiovisual industry worldwide, is pleased to announce the release of a new standard for sizing displayed images for audiovisual systems: ANSI/INFOCOMM V202.01:2016, Display Image Size for …

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DS26 DisplayPort Benefits from Type C

by Bob Raikes

Syed Athar Hussain works for AMD. He is vice chair of VESA and he spoke about DisplayPort in that capacity at the Summit. Technologies that VESA is working on include DisplayPort, Adaptive sync, Display …

Tags:Display Summit 2016| DisplayPort| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| VESA| Vol 23 - Issue 24