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VR Content Creation Guide Free to Download

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Jaunt Studios, self described as “the industry leader in cinematic virtual reality (VR),” announced on January 19th the availability of their Cinematic VR Field Guide, intended to be a guide for creatives venturing into …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Technicolor Talks HDR & VR at CES 2017

by Chris Chinnock

Technicolor had their usual suite in the Venetian where they showcased a number of technologies they are working on. These are primarily related to VR and HDR. One area they highlighted was their partnership …

TI Shows Range of DLP Products at CES 2017

by Chris Chinnock

TI had a suite in Central Hall at CES 2017 where they showed off mostly customer-based products using DLP chip sets, plus other components. We focused on their HUDs, AR/VR headsets and projectors. HUDs …

Facebook in Court for Alleged IP Violation

by Norbert Hildebrand

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has recently been defending the company against allegations that Oculus / Facebook stole intellectual property from ZeniMax Media Inc, a game and content developer headquartered in Washington, DC. The law …

Tags:Facebook/Meta| Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus VR| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Mainstream Brands Bring VR Headsets to CES – Well Almost

by Steve Sechrist

2016 was a device launch break-out year for VR headset hardware. The two most widely known devices began shipping to consumers in the spring of last year, both using a Pentile OLED display with …

Tags:CES 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 02

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 …

Qualcomm Moves to 10nm with 820/821

by Bob Raikes

Qualcomm held the first press event of the 2017 event, just before the ‘official’ opening event by the CTA. Keith Kressin started by saying that Qualcomm started by moving the mobile phone from analogue …

Intel Focuses on VR at Press Event

by Bob Raikes

Intel held a press event that it said was the most technically complex press event that it had ever staged as it had set up high powered VR systems for all of the press …

Eonite Claims Tracking Solution for AR/VR

by Bob Raikes

Eonite has said that it has developed the “world’s most accurate, lowest latency, lowest power consuming software to democratize inside-out positional tracking for VR and AR.” The company has claimed that it has a …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Philips Uses VR for Spinal Surgery

by Bob Raikes

Philips is developing a new augmented-reality surgical navigation technology that may allow spinal surgery using image-guided open and minimally-invasive techniques. The system exploits Philips’ low-dose X-ray systems for imaging. The results of the first …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Philips| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Oculus Ready PC Costs $500 (When Bundled with Rift)

by Bob Raikes

A custom PC maker, CyberPower Inc has developed a PC that is ‘Oculus Ready’ and that costs $1,099 for the bundle when bought with a Rift on Amazon or BestBuy’s online shop. Given that …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| PCs| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 02

CTA Says the US is Heading for a Record Year in Technology

by Norbert Hildebrand

Every year the end of the Holiday Season marks a new start for the electronics world with the CES in the first week of January. For a good reason this marks a new beginning …