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IDC: The Fight for Smart Assistant Dominance Heats Up

by Andrew Fenn

The worldwide smart home devices market — inclusive of smart speakers, digital media adaptors, lighting, thermostats and more — is forecast to ship 549.5 million devices in 2018, growing 26.8% over the prior year, …

Tags:Forecasts| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Voice Input| Vol 25 - Issue 25

IDC: Worldwide IT and Telecom Spending to Slow After Last Year’s Rebound

by Andrew Fenn

Worldwide spending on traditional hardware, software, services and telecommunications is on course for growth of 3.7% this year in constant currency, slightly down from last year’s 4.2% growth, and will reach $4 trillion in …

Tags:IDC| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 25

Over 85% of US Millennials Subscribe to At Least One OTT Video Service

by Andrew Fenn

New research from Parks Associates finds that more than 85% of millennials in US broadband households subscribe to at least one OTT video service. Senior director of research Brett Sappington commented: “Overall penetration of …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| USA| Vol 25 - Issue 25

Report: 2.2 Million People Aged 15+ in France Use SVoD Daily

by Andrew Fenn

New data from research firms NPA Conseil and Harris Interactive reveals that an average of 2.2 million people aged 15 and over in France are using an SVoD service every day. The beginning of …

Tags:France| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| SVOD| Vol 25 - Issue 25

CNMC: A Third of Spanish Homes Had Pay TV At the End of 2017

by Andrew Fenn

A new survey from Spain’s competition and markets watchdog Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) has revealed that 33% of the country’s homes had pay TV at the end of 2017, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| Spain| Sports and Stadiums| Vol 25 - Issue 25

AWE 2018 Roundup

by Bob Raikes

AGC was showing its Glascene diffusion glass which is available in front or rear configurations and allows the use of projectors to create AR applications for retail and other shared spaces. The glass is …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Augmented Reality| Autostereo 3D| AWE 2018| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 25

Lumus Looking to Build Business for Waveguides

by Bob Raikes

Lumus, based in Israel, is a developer of high quality waveguides for AR that it has been making for seven or eight years, through a partnership with Thales of France (and we have been …

Tags:Augmented Reality| AWE 2018| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 25| Waveguide Display

Varjo Mixed Reality Demo is Impressive

by Bob Raikes

Varjo was in a hotel suite near the show and was showing the latest version of the headset that we first saw at MWC (We Get a Chance to Look at Varjo’s Headset) and …

Tags:Augmented Reality| AWE 2018| Mixed Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 25

ThirdEye Open to Customisation

by Bob Raikes

ThirdEye is a maker of smartglasses that is based in Princeton, New Jersey. The X1 glasses are built around a complete system based on a Snapdragon 820 with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of …

Tags:Android| Augmented Reality| AWE 2018| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 25 - Issue 25

UniVet Developing AR Safety Glasses

by Bob Raikes

UniVet Optical Technologies is a maker of safety glasses from Brescia in Italy and has integrated VR technoology into the glasses which it has been developing for 20 years. The company is a Sony …

Tags:Android| Augmented Reality| AWE 2018| Health and Safety| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 25

Iristick is Finalising its Hardware Specification

by Bob Raikes

Iristick is from Antwerp in Belgium and has developed its own smartglasses which are based on a display-only architecture mounted on certified safety glasses. The company has two versions, one with a 5 megapixel …

Tags:Augmented Reality| AWE 2018| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 25

Spex Concentrates on Improving Vision

by Bob Raikes

Spex, which is a division of eSight, has a very specific objective in developing VR systems and that is to help those that are suffering from visual problems and, in particular, macular degeneration. In …

Tags:Android| AWE 2018| Human Visual System (HVS)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 25