Vol 23 – Issue 02 – Page 3

Apple Wins Legacy Device Ban

by Tom Allen

A US court has banned the sale of some Samsung devices, after Apple won a legal case against the firm. However, the threat is not be as harsh as it could have been, as …

HTC Denies VR Rumours

by Tom Allen

HTC has denied media reports claiming that it plans to spin off its VR business into an independent company.

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LGD Sets Monthly Capacity Target for 2017

by Tom Allen

ET News of Korea claims that LG Display plans to produce 75,000 OLED substrates each month at its G6 facilities through the first half of 2017. The substrates will be used to produce curved …

CES and The Upside of VR

by Steve Sechrist

Among the hottest topics at this year’s CES was virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR for short.) The technology has received much ink of late, especially for an aging technology that dates back …

Is Educational VR Content Ready for Prime Time?

by Len Scrogan

I was delighted by reading TI Fellow Karl Guttag’s recent piece on Display Daily entitled VR and AR Head Mounted Displays – Sorry, but there is no Santa Claus. In this remarkable piece, Guttag …

Oculus Reveals Higher Price than Expected

by Norbert Hildebrand

The price of AR/VR headsets was always seen as one of the main hurdles for mass adoption of this new technology. For quite some time, Oculus as the poster child of the VR industry, …

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Christie claims that its new HS Series are ‘the world’s brightest 1DLP laser phosphor projectors’. The company has broken the 12,000 lumen mark (although only in centre lumens, and only on one model), housing …

NextFlex: America’s Flexible Hybrid Electronics Institute

by Paul Semenza

Wearable devices, ubiquitous sensors, and more broadly the Internet of things will increasingly require truly flexible electronics systems that can sense, take actions, and communicate. Flexible hybrid electronics offers the promise of making the …

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CTA Looks Beyond the “Magnificent Seven”

by Bob Raikes

Dubravac of the CTA. Image:Meko LtdAs usual, the CES press events kicked off with a market briefing and “Technology Trends” talk by the CTA which runs CES. This year, the event was in a …

Koreans Move Away From Captive Panel Makers

by Tom Allen

Both LG and Samsung plan to rely less on their own captive TV panel makers (LG Display and Samsung Display), and seek to outsource work to external companies this year. IHS says that the …

Zytronic Brings Good Luck to Global Monitor

by Tom Allen

Global Monitor, a Mexican supplier of screens to the casino industry, has overcome a problem with a good luck tradition. Women in Mexico will often kiss their diamond rings and touch them to the …

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AOC Meets Gamers’ Criteria

by Tom Allen

A new 35″ LCD monitor, with a very high refresh rate and a curve for immersive gaming, has been presented by AOC. The C3583FQ has a refresh rate of 45-160Hz out of the box, …