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Virtual Production Comes of Age in Covid

by Bob Raikes

Last week at the ISE event in London, Lang AG told me that small pitch LED sales had been better than might have been expected and that there was one particular application that was …

Tags:Cinema| LED| Virtual Displays

Better Calibration to Eliminate Headaches

by Xavier Corbillon

As Tiledmedia’s math guru (not my own words :-), I get to solve the challenging problems. Here’s an interesting one: fisheye calibration. Let me explain. Working with Cosm, we supply client-side technology for a …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| 360 Degree Video| 3D Content Creation| Optics| Virtual Displays

AR/VR Displays Will Take Center Stage at the SID/DSCC Business Conference

by Artem Alekseenko

DSCC has announced the speaker lineup for the Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) session at the SID/DSCC Business Conference. The session will feature two leading analysts and four CEOs of innovative companies in the …

Tags:Augmented Reality| SID Society| Virtual Displays| Virtual Reality

‘Microsoft Flight Simulator’ VR Support Comes to SteamVR Headsets

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Microsoft has released a free patch for Flight Simulator that allows support for VR headsets that support OpenXR, which includes the Valve Index, Oculus Rift S, Windows MR headsets like HP …

Tags:Game Playing| Microsoft| Virtual Displays

Technology in New Schools: Why VR is Not Ready for Prime Time

by Len Scrogan

As a new school year rapidly approaches, there’s always a lot of excitement in the air. Part of that exhilaration resides in the fact that August and September are most often the months for …

Acer Wins VR Contract

by Yvette Raikes

Acer is supplying its Star VR HMD to a virtual reality theme park in Dubai, UAE. Construction of the park is expected to be finished by the end of this year or in early …

New Near Eye Display Metrology Tools Introduced

by Chris Chinnock

We saw new developments in near eye display metrology at SID DisplayWeek from Gamma Scientific, Photo Research and Chroma. These are new tools that have been developed because of the unusual measurement needs of …

Aska3D is not ‘Just Pepper’s Ghost’

by Bob Raikes

We were walking past the booth of Aska 3D and saw what looked like a typical ‘Pepper’s Ghost’ display, which are often described as ‘holographic’, but are not. We then realised that the image …

Tags:Holographic Displays| Large Display Monitor| Retail Digital Signage Expo 2017| Virtual Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 18

VR Experiences at CinemaCon

by Chris Chinnock

“Experience” is the term used to describe your adventure in VR. In most cases at CinemaCon, this was more like a virtual ride, sometime augmented with 4D or 5D effects. I tried the Mummy …

STATS LLC and Virtually Live Enter Strategic Partnership to Deliver Live Virtual Reality Experiences for Sports Fans

by Isaac Oburu

STATS LLC, the world’s leading sports technology company, has partnered with Virtually Live, the business that enables sports fans to experience live games and events through virtual reality, to create a fully immersive viewing …

Tags:Virtual Displays| Virtual Reality

McDonald’s Getting into VR

by Norbert Hildebrand

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that many companies that cater to children in general have an interest in VR. As one of the upcoming technologies, VR in general is often viewed as the …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Displays| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 08

AR / VR Developments

by Norbert Hildebrand

Microsoft announced their Room2Room project that ups the typical Skype call to a full blown projection experience in a room. As the successor to an earlier project called RoomAlive, it uses the Kinect system …