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VR and AR Head Mounted Displays – Sorry, but there is no Santa Claus

by Karl Guttag

There certainly is a lot of money going into VR and AR Head Mounted Display, I mean half a billion dollars here and $2 billion there, and pretty soon you are talking serious money. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 51

Essert Provides AR Solution With Vuzix

by Tom Allen

Essert GmbH has chosen Vuzix as a smart glasses partner for its AR service. Essert will sell Vuzix’s M100 glasses alongside its own augmented support and training applications. The first customer of the complete …

Popular Science Chooses HTC as VR Revolution

by Tom Allen

HTC’s Vive VR headset and platform has won two awards from Popular Science Magazine. Every December, the magazine’s editorial team chooses new technologies that it thinks will change the world. This year, the HTC …

Consumers Value Content and Quality in Online Video

by Tom Allen

Consumers in developed countries are increasingly watching online video ‘on their own terms’ – so says Limelight Networks’ new ‘State of Online Video’ report. The survey, of more than 1,200 consumers in the UK, …

Matrox Tackles Italian Water Flow

by Tom Allen

Matrox graphics controllers and Sharp displays have been used in two new control room installations for MM SpA, in Italy. The first, in Milan, incorporated a Mura MPX controller with MuraControl software, driving a …

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ICDM Extends Working Meeting

by Tom Allen

The ICDM meeting in Boulder, Colorado next year (ICDM Hosts Boulder Meeting) has been extended to four days: 22nd – 25th February. This is to allow for a full day of discussions at the …

ETRI Uses Graphene to Raise Transparent Viewing Angles

by Tom Allen

Transparent OLEDs, like this 2010 Samsung prototype, suffer from poor viewing anglesBy integrating graphene into OLEDs, Korean scientists have managed to improve the transparency and image quality of display panels by between 40% and …

eMagin Seeks to Raise Funds for Manufacturing Upgrade

by Tom Allen

According to OLED-Info, eMagin will raise around $6 million in a registered direct offering of shares and warrants. The new capital will be used to upgrade the company’s manufacturing equipment, balance its production line …

Windows 10 Delayed Again

by Tom Allen

Microsoft has said that Windows 10 Mobile will not be rolled out to existing smartphones until next year. This follows a previous delay in October, until December.

Huawei Enjoys Rising Popularity in Europe

by Tom Allen

In an interview with China’s Xinhua, Huawei has said that its smartphone sales in CEE and northern Europe this year have been ‘gratifying’. More than 3.46 million smartphones were sold, representing a 114% increase …

Tags:Europe| Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 22 - Issue 51

In the Labs at Dolby

by Chris Chinnock

One cool part of the analyst day visit at Dolby was a tour of a couple of forward-looking labs. In one, we saw how Dolby is measuring biometric data like EKG, eye movements, skin …

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Dolby Cinema and Dolby Vision Demos During Analyst Day

by Chris Chinnock

One of the demos focused on Dolby Cinema. While we did not sit in a real Dolby Cinema theater (that is being constructed at the site), we did see some real images. The projector …