Vol 23 – Issue 21 – Page 5

Speckle Metrology Gets Attention

by Chris Chinnock

The characterization of speckle is an on-going area of development and becoming more critical as laser-based projection systems expand beyond their initial deployments in digital cinema. There were four papers in session 10 on …

BOE Shows a Wide Range of Panels

by Bob Raikes

BOE has gradually been boosting its marketing around the world and had a good array of different panels for a range of applications this year. although CSOT of China, which came to San Jose …

IGZO & Touch are Sharp Focus

by Bob Raikes

Sharp was highlighting its technology in IGZO backplanes and its touch integration at the SID. IGZO will be important, Sharp believes, because it meets the needs that are developing in IT and PCs. The …

Samsung Back at SID – but ‘No Meetings’

by Bob Raikes

Samsung Display was missed at the SID event last year (it was concentrating on promoting its branded products last year, rather than components, we heard), so we were pleased to see the company back …

Kyocera Highlights Touch and Automotive

by Bob Raikes

Kyocera explained its expanded Procap line of products for industrial and automotive applications, which are now available optically bonded up to 12.1″. The company has also upgraded its wide viewing angle technology from AWV …

YUVSoft Converts 360° Footage to 3D

by Arthur Berman

There are a variety of objective and subjective difficulties related to the capture, stitching together and editing of 360o stereoscopic 3D videos. To address these challenges, YUVSoft (Moscow, Russia) is offering a 2D-to-stereoscopic 3D …

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Heptagon Announces a New and Really Small 3D Camera

by Arthur Berman

Heptagon Micro Optics (Singapore) has announced the availability of a new product called “Mora” which the company bills as the “world’s smallest all-in-one 3D module.” Heptagon provides a broad line of 3D related product …

Tags:3D Depth Cameras| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Optics| Vol 23 - Issue 21

Analogix Reaches 10 Million SlimPort Shipments

by Tom Allen

Analogix has now shipped more than 10 million DisplayPort over USB-C controllers and transmitters into mobile devices and accessories, it has announced. The firm says that the solutions, sold under the SlimPort brand, are …

Microsoft Provides Hololens Commentary

by Tom Allen

Microsoft has, for the first time, provided a look at the hardware inside its Hololens augmented reality headset, at the Imec Technology Forum in Belgium. Although there have been teardowns of the dev kit …

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Best Buy Slashes Apple Prices

by Tom Allen

During the Memorial Day weekend, Best Buy is cutting the price of the Apple Watch (standard edition) by $200. That means that consumers can pick up the wearable for $350 or $400, depending on …

Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| Best Buy| Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 21

SID Showfloor Round Up

by Bob Raikes

3M was showing a 31″ 2560 x 1440 monitor reference design that supports 94% of the Rec 2020 using the company’s QD-based QDEF film in an edge-lit configuration and using an optimised DBEF. Brightness …

Vivitek Runs 24/7

by Tom Allen

Owners have multiple choices with Vivitek’s new laser phosphor DLP projector, the DU7090Z. The unit is supplied with five optional lenses, a centred lens design for easy set-up and both horizontal and vertical lens …

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