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Sony Showcases VR Headset Prototype With 4K OLED Microdisplay

by Bob Raikes

What They Say As part of its Technology Day. Sony’s R&D Division showed the video below which highlights an AR/VR headset that has been developed using dual UltraHD OLED microdisplays (4000ppi). The headset is …

Tags:R&D (Research & Development)| sony| Virtual Reality

Event Invitation – Digital Dip XR: EU-Calls

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The 3IT in Berlin, collaborating with partners, is running an event that will look particularly at funding for VR/AR/XR projects under the EU’s Horizon programme. After a general introduction to the …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Events| R&D (Research & Development)| Virtual Reality

Links Week Commencing 22nd November 2021

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. SNA Displays Videowall Brings Aquarium to Life …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive| Desktop Monitors| EPGs| Game Playing| R&D (Research & Development)| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| TVs (TV Sets)| Vestel

Is There Really “No Moore’s Law for Optics”?

by Bob Raikes

I’m going to start today’s Display Daily, but getting out, up-front, that I am no expert in optics. However, the topic has been getting more and more interesting recently and because of the critical …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Lenses| Metasurfaces| Optics| R&D (Research & Development)| Virtual Reality

Mojo Vision Developing NanoLEDs

by Bob Raikes

Two years ago, Arthur wrote an article about Mojo Vision (Small Thinking at Mojo Vision May Lead to Big Developments in AR). Since then we’ve mentioned the firm a few times, but the DSCC …

Tags:Contact Lens Display| MicroLED| R&D (Research & Development)

Applied Materials Overcomes Some Challenges in MicroLED for VR

by Bob Raikes

I was very interested to see that Applied Materials (Applied), a key supplier of equipment to the flat panel display industry, was planning to speak at the DSCC AR/VR event this week about developments …

Tags:Applied Materials| LED| MicroLED| Quantum Dots| R&D (Research & Development)

Researchers Develop Glass-Encapsulated Perovskites

by Bob Raikes

What They Say An international group of scientists has found a way to embed lead-halide perovskites (LHPs) in porous glass, The glass protects the materials, which are very sensitive, while stopping the leaching of …

Tags:Perovskite| R&D (Research & Development)

Smartkem On the Up with RiTdisplay JDA

by Bob Raikes

We published, a couple of weeks ago, a press release from the developer of organic TFTs, Smartkem that announced that it has signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) with RiTdisplay, a Taiwanese company that …

Tags:OLEDs| Organic TFTs| PMOLED| R&D (Research & Development)

Do You Need Higher Frame Rates with HDR for ‘the Cinematic Look’?

by Bob Raikes

I have long thought that HDR and higher resolution images alone or together makes the effect of low frame rates more obviously, so I was pleased to see a paper in the SMPTE Motion …

Tags:Dolby| HDR - High Dynamic Range| HFR - High Frame Rate| R&D (Research & Development)| SMPTE

Pitted Metalens is More Robust

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Up to now, most metalens architectures have been based on building raised pillars to create nanosurfaces that can influence light to create metalenses. Now Optics.org reports that a group at Harvard …

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

Origami OLEDs on the Way

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers headed by Dong Chan Kim of the Center for Nanoparticle Research, Institute for Basic Science (Seoul, Korea) is developing a new technology to enable the production of foldable quantum dot …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| OLEDs| R&D (Research & Development)