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Magic Leap Working on Head Mounted Display Hardware

by Norbert Hildebrand

Last year, Magic Leap, the Florida-based augmented reality company announced a $542 million financing round with Google leading the way. The announcement came just before Google pulled the plug on the Google Glass Explorer …

Pixelworks Takes Stage at ROTH

by Tom Allen

Pixelworks’s CEO, Bruce Walicek, and CFO, Steven Moore, will take part in the 2015 ROTH Conference this month. The conference takes place on 9th March in Dana Point, CA; Walicek and Moore will take …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pixelworks| Vol 22 - Issue 09

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ForthDD Launches QXGA-3DM SLM

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Forth Dimension Displays (ForthDD) , a subsidiary of Kopin Corporation, announced at Photonics West (7 – 12 February 2015) a new QXGA (2048 x 1536) resolution imager and drive board, the QXGA-3DM. The QXGA-3DM …

Tags:Forth Dimension Displays| Kopin| LCOS| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 09

IHS: Automotive Takes Second-Highest Small-Medium Category

by Tom Allen

Smartphones sales continue to intrude on other small-medium display categories, but automotive revenues continue to rise. According to IHS DisplaySearch, revenues in the category were up 26% last year, to become the second-highest growth …

German Market Remains Steady in 2014

by Tom Allen

The positive trend in consumer electronics (CE) sales in Germany continued through 2014. Compared to 2013, sales were up 2.1%, and stable growth is predicted for 2015. The Consumer Electronics Market Index (Cemix), published …

Vector Claims Month-Long Battery

by Tom Allen

A new company called Vector is to introduce a smartwatch later this month with ‘a whole month’ of battery life. Vector will show the watch at an event in Basel, on the same day …

Tags:Batteries| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 09

JDI wants Apple to Invest in Screen Plant

by Helen Vince

There have been unconfirmed reports that Japan Display (JDI) is in talks with Apple about investing in a new plant to manufacture screens for Apple iPhones and possibly for the Apple Watch. According to …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Japan Display Inc (JDI)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 09

JDI Pushes Reflective Smartwatch Module Samples

by Tom Allen

Japan Display has begun to sell small memory-in-pixel reflective colour LCD modules, for smartwatches and similar wearables. Because they are reflective, the modules consume ‘less than 0.5%’ of the power of transparent-type units. A …

Ason Develops 50,000 cd/m² OLED

by Tom Allen

Photo credit: Sangyo TimesJapan’s Ason, which develops OLED lighting panels using a multi-stack structure, has a new unit that can go as high as 50,000 cd/m². In an interview with the Sangyo Times, CEO …

Samsung’s S6 Teaser Hints at Low Reflections

by Tom Allen

Samsung has shown two new teasers for the Galaxy S6, expected to be revealed at MWC next week. The new videos hint at low reflections and a bezel-less design. Find them at http://tinyurl.com/kbbytfv and …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2015| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 09

MWC 2015 is Upon Us

by Tom Allen

MWC is about to get underway in Barcelona, running from 2nd to 5th March. Here, we present a round-up of various companies and products that will be at what is being called the world’s …

DARPA Working on the Future Display – The One Without Displays

by Norbert Hildebrand

When we talk about wearables, especially about augmented and virtual reality glasses, we always think of discrete imagers that create the best possible result in such applications. Discussions about LCOS, DMD, LCD and OLED …

Tags:DARPA| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 09| Wearables