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Media Strategy Driven by Direct-to-consumer Technology

by Yvette Raikes

Technological advances, such as VR, are driving direct-to-consumer strategies, according to the global entertainment and media outlook for 2017 to 2021 from PwC. The consumer VR content market is expected to be worth $15.1 …

Tags:Forecasts| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| TV Viewing| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 22

BOE Causes Analyst Overload!

by Bob Raikes

BOE has been making a bigger and bigger impact at each of the last several SID Display Weeks and this year it impressed even more. We started by looking at a flexible OLED concept …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| SID Display Week 2017| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 21

IC11 IMax Says Many Ways To Judge VR Progress

by Bob Raikes

The final speaker for the day at the Investor’s Conference was Amit Shalev, Head of VR Technology & Design at IMax Corp. She said she would talk about other ‘paths to success’ for VR. …

Tags:IMAX| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2017| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Apple to Support External GPU & VR

by Bob Raikes

As part of its announcements at the WWDC 2017, Apple said it would support a development kit that is an external GPU enclosure, with an AMD Radeon RX 580 that can connect to PCs …

Tags:Apple| GPUs| Mobile Display Monitor| Thunderbolt| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Major League Baseball Partnership with Intel Brings Free VR Streaming

by Alan Spencer

Intel has made a deal with major league baseball in the US. The partnership will see Intel VR live streaming one game every Tuesday during the 2017 major league baseball (MLB) regular season without …

Tags:AR/VR| Intel| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Sports and Stadiums| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 22

IC03 Kopin Has a Real Business in AR/VR

by Bob Raikes

Hong Choi is from Kopin and replaced Dr John Fan, who was due to speak. Choi is CTO for the company. Kopin is focused on AR & VR and is shipping displays, supplying ip …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Aviation| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Microdisplays| Mobile Display Monitor| Press Events| SID Display Week 2017| Sports and Stadiums| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 21

KN2 Google Makes AR/VR Display Breakthroughs

by Bob Raikes

Clay Bavor is from Google where he is the VP responsible for AR & VR. After checking with the audience how many people had tried ‘good VR’, he explained that when he introduces people …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Press Events| SID Display Week 2017| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 21

AR and VR on the SID Exhibition Floor

by Matthew Brennesholtz

There were a number of AR and VR systems on the Display Week show floor that weren’t represented in either the AR/VR Business Conference or the Technical sessions. This article is intended to give …

Tags:AMOLED| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2017| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 21

MindMaze Trying to Track Faces

by Bob Raikes

MindMaze is a start-up that is developing face tracking that is said to be compatible with any VR headset as it uses low cost electrodes in the foam padding around the headset to detect …

Tags:AR/VR| face recognition| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 21

AR/VR Technical Sessions at Display Week

by Matthew Brennesholtz

One of the highlights of Display week for a person with a technical background like me are the technical sessions. I attended most of the Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) sessions and …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2017| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 21

AR/VR Optical Components Round-up

by Chris Chinnock

ColorLink Japan was showing some optical components for near to eye applications such as the E5-Dill embedded pico projector model. It features a 1280 x 720 LCOS panel from Miyota, RGB LEDs and output …

Tags:LCOS| Mobile Display Monitor| Pico Projectors| SID Display Week 2017| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Kopin at SID and AWE

by Matthew Brennesholtz

While Kopin Corporation did not have an official presence at SID’s Display Week exhibition, I visited them in their suite at the nearby JW Marriott hotel where I was hosted by Greg Truman, Head …

Tags:AWE 2017| Kopin| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2017| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 21