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Google Jump Captures the World in 360 Degree 3D

by Arthur Berman

One of the challenges faced by participants in the Virtual Reality industry is to make creating and watching VR simpler for consumers. To that end, Google has launched a new open source VR platform …

Tags:Google| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 25

Display Week Wearables Conference Revisits Head Mounted Displays (WF2)

by Phillip Wright

Margaret Kohin, SVP, Business Development, eMagin Corporation was invited to present a Special Wearables Address at the Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference organized by IHS at SID’s 2015 Display Week. Kohin’s address was unique at …

Visit AWE 2015 Conference via Robot – AWEsome!

by Norbert Hildebrand

This week the AWE 2015 conference in Santa Clara was the playground for all things AR/VR, wearable and IoT. The conference and exhibition is growing, drawing more and more attendance and mirroring the general …

My SID 2015 Impressions

by Chris Chinnock

First, let me confess that I did not hear every paper, attend every side conference or visit every booth at SID 2015 – far from it. As a result, I have to confine my …

Tags:Augmented Reality| SID Display Week 2015| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Technicolor Gives a Glimpse of the Future

by Norbert Hildebrand

Technicolor held its yearly science and research event in Jersey City, NJ. Technicolor, the technology company which focuses on the creation, distribution and storage of image related content, has about $3.5 billion in sales. …

Big Plans for Nvidia’s G-Sync This Year

by Tom Allen

Nvidia has shared a whole host of new products that will support its G-Sync technology at Computex 2015, in Taiwan. There are no fewer than six laptops and seven monitors with G-Sync built in …

Apple Buys VR Start-Up

by Helen Vince

Apple is reported to have acquired German virtual reality start-up Metaio. The company currently makes a number of SDKs and toolkits that help to create augmented reality apps and has created a holodeck-style game …

AR and VR on the Mind

by Norbert Hildebrand

It seems that AR and VR are on everyone’s mind these days. The whole area of augmented and virtual reality is of great interest to the business world, as demonstrated by the acquisition of …

Top 10 Trends in Displays

by Helen Vince

The following is a piece written by Sri Peruvemba, CEO of Marketer International and Head of Marketing for the Society for Information Display. Sri Peruvemba at Latin Display – photo Meko LtdThe global display …

Tags:Curved Displays| Quantum Dots| SID Display Week 2015| Virtual Reality| Wearables

Wearable World Congress Also Covers IoT

by Norbert Hildebrand

The Wearable World Congress in San Francisco, organized by the Wearable World organization, addresses the development of all wearable technology and the Internet of Things. The conference was held at the Palace of Fine …

Dlodlo’s 120g VR Headset Ready for Sale

by Tom Allen

Tongue-twistingly-named Dlodlo, of China, has announced a pair of VR glasses weighing 120g – said to be four times lighter than competitors’ models. The glasses have the ‘look and fit’ of sunglasses. The display …

Tags:China| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 21

OTOY Developing Means for Light Field Capture of Real World Environments

by Arthur Berman

OTOY Inc. (Los Angeles, CA), is developing a camera system that can capture a spherical light field of a real world environment. Such imagery can be transformed into a virtual world scene that is …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Oculus Rift| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 21