Vol 23 – Issue 12 – Page 5

Testia Moving A/R out of Airbus

by Bob Raikes

The Testia AR projection uses four targets fitted for accuracy. Image: MekoTestia is a developer of technology for use by its parent company, Airbus group. The company was showing an augmented reality application using …

Schneider Continues Planar 3D Display Development

by Bob Raikes

Schneider Digital is a German company, based South of Munich, that was showing a dual LCD 3D display based on a design that was originally developed by Planar. Schneider works closely with Planar and …

Kanagawa Uni Develops Multi-display Based on Lenticular Technology

by Bob Raikes

We have often reported on the use of lenticular lenses on LFDs to create autostereoscopic displays, but the Kanagawa Institute of Technology was using this kind of lens on an LCD to create different …

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Immersion Puts VR In a Case

by Bob Raikes

Immersion of France was one of the companies that had the most substantial presences at the show along with partners, including Planar (it had the Planar transparent OLED on display) and the company is …

Diota Offers Tablet or Projection A/R

by Bob Raikes

Diota is a supplier of professional 3D and A/R software for industry and has customer installations including PSA and SNCF in France and Volkswagen in Germany. It was showing a system that allowed the …

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Virtual Laval Gains From Long Term Development

by Bob Raikes

Last week, we attended an event, Virtual Laval, in Laval in Normandy, France for the first time. We had intended to visit last year, but we failed as an Air Traffic Controller’s dispute in …

Atomos Brings HDR to Field Monitors

by Tom Allen

Atomos has shown off two new 7.1″ field monitors prior to NAB, which display 10 stops of luminance detail, with 10-bit HDR post production colour accuracy (8-bit + FRC); said to be the first …

Toshiba Pushes Two Signals At Once

by Tom Allen

Toshiba’s semiconductor division has developed a dual-picture video processor, for high-resolution automotive displays. Mass production of the TC90195XBG chip is scheduled to begin in June. The processor supports a single 1920 x 720 display. …

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LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 12

by Tom Allen

AOC has brought its C2783FQ monitor, launched in Australia last year (Australia is First With AOC Monitor), to the USA. It costs $350. The RP750, a large-format IR multitouch display from BenQ, was first …

Asbis Brings Alcatel to Eastern Europe

by Isaac Oburu

Asbis is distributing Alcatel’s smartphone, tablets and smartwatches in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

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Rift – Finally – Reaches Customers

by Tom Allen

It’s been a long wait – four years since the Kickstarter campaign began! – but the Oculus Rift headset is finally being shipped. Those customers who were able to pre-order the consumer model of …

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Acer Splits to Focus on Recovery

by Tom Allen

Following the split of HP into two separate units, Acer has announced that it is taking the same path, in order to turn around its poor finances (revenue was down 20% YoY last year). …

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