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BC12 Visionox Looks at the Challenges of Flexible OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

Dr. Xiuqi Huang is from Visionox, which is developing OLEDs in China. He looked back to the time of the CRT – it was huge, heavy, but colourful. The TFT LCD then came along …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Press Events| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 21

BC11 Next Generation Flexible, Rollable and Foldable Displays

by Bob Raikes

Ryan Reith is Program VP for IDC’s Mobile Tracker and he started by saying that there is plenty of room for growth in smartphone volumes as, at the moment, penetration globally is only 43%. …

Tags:Forecasts| IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Press Events| SID Display Week 2017| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 21

AI/Deep Learning Will Help VR

by Chris Chinnock

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning and Deep Learning were topics that emerged at NAB that were covered in several sessions we attended. These included: The Future of Cinema Technology session titled “How You Get …

Tags:Intel| Mobile Display Monitor| NAB 2017| Press Events| Technicolor| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 17

Updates from the Virtual Realty Industry Forum

by Chris Chinnock

The Virtual Reality Industry Forum (VRIF) is a non-for-profit organization whose mission statement is “to further the widespread availability of high quality audiovisual VR experiences for the benefit of consumers.” At NAB, the organization …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| NAB 2017| Press Events| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 17

Practice is Behind the State of the Art in Professional VR

by Bob Raikes

Kathleen Maher is from Jon Peddie Research where she focuses on content creation and software and was the first speaker after lunch when she talked about commercial VR. She started by saying that in …

Tags:CAD-CAM-CAE| CAVEs| Laval Virtual 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Press Events| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Inami Wants Superhuman Sports

by Bob Raikes

Masahiko Inami – University of Tokyo – gave an intriguing talk. As it turned out, little of it was really related to displays, but it was intriguing. Inami has previously worked at Keio University …

Tags:Laval Virtual 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Press Events| Sports and Stadiums| Vol 24 - Issue 12

AR Will be Big, but Not Easy

by Bob Raikes

Dr Jon Peddie started his talk by saying that Laval Virtual should be called Laval Immersive because it covers not only VR, but also AR and Mixed Reality. The market for these technologies is …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Laval Virtual 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Press Events| Vol 24 - Issue 12

MWC 4YFN Show Buzzes

by Bob Raikes

Away from the main show at the older exhibition centre in Barcelona, Montjuic, the organisers held a special event called “Four Years from Now”, or 4YFN, that was designed for technology innovators from academia …

Tags:360 Degree Video| Augmented Reality| Blend & Warp| GPUs| Laser Projectors| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Press Events| Smartphones| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Virtual Reality Headset Market Forecast CES Update

by Steve Sechrist

The VR AR space is a niche market at best, barely showing up as a rounding error in the recent CEA market update given on press day one at CES 2017. The CTA Extended …

Tags:Augmented Reality| CES 2017| Emerging Markets| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Press Events| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 02

360º Experiments with Media Companies

by Chris Chinnock

This session at the NYC event focused on what some leading media companies are doing to develop and distribute mostly VR content. For example, the NY Times started doing 360º VR news stories about …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| NYC Media Lab 2016| Press Events| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 46

Advertising and Marketing Panel Looks at Advertising

by Chris Chinnock

This panel explored how VR and AR are being used by advertisers today. The first conclusion: no one is making money in this area right now and there is no good way to measure …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| NYC Media Lab 2016| Press Events| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 46

The Business of VR Will Grow

by Chris Chinnock

This session featured a summary of market data for VR presented by Justin Hendrix of the NYC Media Lab. He started by showing the famous Gartner hype cycle chart that currently places AR near …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| NYC Media Lab 2016| Press Events| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 46