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Jaunt Brings Middle East to VR

by Tom Allen

VR content producer Jaunt Studios is working with Ryot, a VR production studio, to produce a documentary series in – you guessed it – VR. Holy Land will be filmed and directed by David …

Tags:Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| Video Editing & Production| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 50

Bank Predicts First-Ever iPhone Fall

by Tom Allen

A research note from Morgan Stanley predicts that 2015 is the year that iPhone sales peaked – and it’s downhill from here for Apple. Sales of the iPhone shot up this year, from 169.2 …

Tags:iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 22 - Issue 50| Worldwide

UK Footfall Trends Down in December

by Tom Allen

Ipsos Retail Performance’s Retail Traffic Index (RTI) shows that shopping footfall in the UK fell 2.6% last week (beginning 6th December), compared to last year. Ipsos believes that 2015 will be a ‘muted’ Christmas …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Retail| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 50

VR Investees Rise in 2015

by Tom Allen

More and more investment is taking place in the virtual reality space, triggered by Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus VR for $2 billion. In total, $800 million was invested in VR last year – $540 …

Tags:Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 50

FlexEnable-CPT Show Glassless AMOLED

by Tom Allen

FlexEnable and CPT manufactured a flexible, colour AMOLED display back in June (CPT-FlexEnable Partnership Marks Flexible Mass-Production), and have now published a video of it in action. Watch it below or visit http://tinyurl.com/q6tjc45.

Toshiba is Ready for Windows 10

by Tom Allen

Toshiba’s new Satellite notebook is the P50-C-18N: a dedicated Windows 10 model. The 15.6″ product features microphones and a dedicated Cortana button. A Core i7 Skylake processor from Intel runs Windows 10 Home, with …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| toshiba| Vol 22 - Issue 50

John Lewis Gets Into VR Game

by Tom Allen

John Lewis is currently showing a VR experience at its Oxford Street store in London. The company is stocking the Freefly VR headset exclusively for the next four weeks, and is demonstrating it to …

50% of Consumers Will Use Mobile Payments by 2018

by Tom Allen

Mobile payments are gaining traction in developed countries, says Gartner; half of consumers in mature markets are expected to use smartphones or wearables for mobile payments by 2018. The trend is especially prominent in …

Bloomberg: Apple Building Screens at ‘Secret’ Lab

by Tom Allen

Apple has opened its own display division to develop new screens – at least, according to Bloomberg. People with knowledge of the facility, which is based on Longtan, Taiwan, say that ‘at least’ 50 …

US Navy Announces BEMR Lab for the Use of Mixed Reality Technology

by Norbert Hildebrand

The military is always good for some interesting twist on new technology, and this is the case with latest news from the US Navy Research Lab (NRL) which announced a new initiative, the BEMR …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Military & Defence| Mobile Display Monitor| SmartGlasses| Virtual Reality

Introducing Google’s Cardboard Camera App

by Arthur Berman

As a follow on to its Cardboard viewer and associated Cardboard app, Google has developed, and is now offering, a new virtual reality content creation tool for Android smartphones. Having taken about a year …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 50

PeLEDs Have OLED-Beating Efficiency

by Tom Allen

Researchers at Korea’s Pohang University claim to have developed a perovskite LED (PeLED) with a luminous efficiency that can compete with phosphorescent OLEDs. The component could eventually be used in displays and lighting panels …