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Links Week Ending 22nd April 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. Amazon is quietly developing a ‘new-to-world’ …

Tags:Acer| Amazon| Augmented Reality| Awards| Codecs| Desktop Monitors| Fibre optics| Fitness Trackers| Game Playing| MMD (AOC Philips)| Optics| Outdoor Displays| Samsung| Smartphones| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| TVs (TV Sets)

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Lumus Planning More Consumer Targeted Waveguides

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Information’s Reality Check said that Lumus, the maker of high end waveguides for AR displays, is planning two lower resolution versions. The firm’s Maximus waveguide supports up to 2048 x …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Optics| Waveguide Display

NIL Technology launches flat optics platform for ARVR glasses, headsets

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Optics.org reported that a Danish optics firm, NIL Technology, is developing nanostructured flat optics for applications including AR/VR glasses and headsets. The firm told the site that its flat optics has …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Metasurfaces| Optics| Virtual Reality

Colour Shifts, BEFs and Quantum Dots

by Bob Raikes

Display Daily contributor Pete Palomaki recently had fun tearing down a Vizio Quantum Dot-enhanced TV and published a YouTube video to show how the backlight worked and the effect of the Quantum Dots. He …

Tags:LCD Backlights| LED| Optics| Polarisers| Quantum Dots

Soochow University Flat Lens Improves Light Field Displays

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The optics.org site has reported R&D work at Soochow University in China that is aimed at designing a nanostructured flat lens with an improved depth of focus. The work was published …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| Metasurfaces| Optics| R&D (Research & Development)

Lumus Uploads Schott Talk on Reflective Waveguides

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Lumus uploaded to YouTube part of a presentation by Rüdiger Sprengard, PhD. – Head of Augmented Reality at Schott that highlighted the cooperation between the companies in developing waveguides announced in …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Glass| Optics| Waveguide Display

Links Week Starting 31st January 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. Ricoh’s new Theta X 360º camera features …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Google| Optics| Samsung| Small Medium Panel Supply| Smartphones| TVs (TV Sets)

Corning Optimises Glass for Waveguides

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Corning has a new glass formulation that has a refractive index of 2.0 and is intended to be used in waveguides for XR applications (up from 1.8 and 1.9 in previous …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Corning| Glass| Optics| Virtual Reality

Links Week Ending 14th January 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. (quite a few this week as we …

Tags:Acer| Big Data/AI| CES 2022| Dell| Desktop Monitors| Financial Data| Game Playing| HDMI| IPS| JOLED| Kopin| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mergers & Acquisitions| Microdisplays| OLEDs| Optics| Patents| PlayStation| Samsung Display| Smartphones| sony| TCL| Testing| Virtual Reality

Kopin & Panasonic Subsidiary show VR Headset

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We have been reporting on Kopin’s microOLEDs and its developments of all plastic ‘pancake optics’. At CES 2022, Shiftall, a fully owned subsidiary of Panasonic, showed a headset based on the …

Tags:CES 2022| Kopin| Microdisplays| OLEDs| Optics| Panasonic| Virtual Reality

New Diffuser Can Selectively Control Colours

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Scientists in two German institutes have developed a new optical diffuser that uses silicon nanoparticles that create a metasurface that can redirect specific wavelengths of light. The groups see applications in …

Tags:Germany| Metasurfaces| Optics| R&D (Research & Development)

Links Week Starting 3rd January 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. I spotted the chart below on the …

Tags:5K (5120 x 2880)| Automotive| Desktop Monitors| LG Electronics (LGE)| Market Data| Metasurfaces| Oculus VR| OLEDs| Operating Systems| Optics| Remote Controls| Roku| Samsung| STBs