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Will AR Kill Traditional Displays? Citrix Thinks So…

by Bob Raikes

Guy Bieber is from Citrix and he is from the office of the CTO. He showed a video of AR concepts – involving architecture and remote medicine. When you want to make a change, …

Tags:Augmented Reality| AWE 2015| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 25

AR to Kill the Display Business?

by Bob Raikes

Juergen Lumera of Bosch Automotive, where he is involved in technical documentation, started by saying its easier to get outsiders to introduce AR – insiders are not always trusted. To get out of “sandboxes” …

Tags:Augmented Reality| AWE 2015| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 25

AR in the Enterprise Needs Rich Data

by Bob Raikes

We moved to the AR for Enterprise track where where he heard that the Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance (AREA) is a trade association that is supporting the development of professional and corporate applications …

Tags:Augmented Reality| AWE 2015| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 25

Qualcomm Sets Out Vuforia Use

by Bob Raikes

The success of mobile devices, we believe, is partly driven by the sensors that are available on them. The desktop has not had the same development in input – the keyboard and mouse remain …

AWE 2015 Buzzes on Metaio Sale

by Bob Raikes

We were in San Jose for the SID and remained in the area for a few days afterwards. We were able to get a day at the Augmented World Expo (AWE) 2015 conference in …

Quantum Dots: The Plot Thickens

by Ken Werner

A lot of the conversation about quantum dots at Display Week revolved around the European Commission’s rejection of their own technical committee’s recommendation that cadmium-based quantum dots continue to be exempt from prohibition as …

Transparent Flexible Conductors Proliferate at Display Week

by Ken Werner

You could make a case for Transparent Flexible Conductors (TFCs) based on thinness, lightweight and ruggedness even when they are being applied to displays with rigid substrates. Now that flexible displays are entering the …

Touch and Haptics Innovations in 2015 SID iZone

by Phillip Wright

Two developers caught my attention during my visit to the 2015 SID Display Week Innovation Zone (iZone). Redux Technologies and TouchNetix were exhibiting new embedded haptics and touch sensor products, respectively. The Redux Embedded …

Wearable Software Ecosystem: Diversity or Monoculture

by Phillip Wright

The 2015 SID Display Week Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference hosted a session and panel discussion on Software for Wearables with speakers from Mozilla, Intel, and Runtastic. At this point in the penultimate session of …

WorldSIM Targets International Travellers

by Tom Allen

WorldSIM is a new entrant to the tablet market, producing its first 7″ model using the Android OS. A survey by WorldSIM shows that the majority (52%) of mobile device owners do not use …

Tags:3G & 4G| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 25

Challenges Remain, but Some Display Jobs are Now Done

by Bob Raikes

This week, we have been very busy following up the SID show and we are just finalising the report as I write this article. Now I’m away from it, it’s getting clearer what the …

Electrochromic Tech Enables Tunable Windows

by Tom Allen

Scientists from the University of Cincinnati claim to have developed a smart window technology that goes way beyond simple tinting. The group say that users can have control over brightness, colour temperature and opacity …