Vol 23 – Issue 38 – Page 8

Could VR Headsets Hit 70 Million?

by Bob Raikes

Digitimes Research in Taiwan believes that promotions by smartphone vendors of VR headsets with smartphones will mean a big boost to shipments in Q4 2016, boosting annual shipments to 70 million for the year …

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EverDisplay to set up 6G AMOLED Fab

by Bob Raikes

The Economic Daily News, a Chinese language newspaper, has reported that EverDisplay Optronics of Shanghai will invest CNY27.278 billion ($4 billion) to set up a G6 (1.5m x 1.8m) OLED factory with a monthly …

LG Criticised for RGBW Again

by Bob Raikes

LG is continuing to get bad coverage for its RGBW UltraHD TV panels. A recent 4K blog site published an article titled “These three LG TVS offer RGBW pseudo 4K and a raw deal …

Zytronics Enables Wroclaw Museum

by Bob Raikes

Zytronic said that its PCap technology has been used by touch screen specialists Videofonika and has been installed in the recently opened Pan Tadeusz museum in Wroclaw, Poland, has been designed with numerous multimedia …

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Envelop for Windows Now in Beta

by Bob Raikes

Envelop for Windows is new software that is intended to bring Windows apps to VR headsets and allow software including office productivity applications to be used in a VR environment with HTC Vive and …

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EOL for Windows

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 OEM edition will become “end of line” (EOL) at the end of October and will no longer be available to system builders to install on new PCs. The company would like …

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Survey Points to Low Content Offering and High Price as VR/AR Adoption Hurdles

by Norbert Hildebrand

In the recent “2016 Augmented and Virtual Survey Report“, PerkinsCoie and Upload present some of the results of their online survey about the opportunities, challenges and hurdles for AR/ VR if it is to …

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Lexus UX Concept Has New Display

by Bob Raikes

At the Paris motor show, Lexus showed a concept car that had a novel interface. The driver’s instrument binnacle houses a transparent globe, floating like a hologram, Lexus said, in which a combination of …

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Freeview Play Adds Support for HLG

by Bob Raikes

Digital UK has set out new requirements for Freeview Play for products developed in 2017 and which will include support for the features in HbbTV 2.0.1, extending from DTG’s D-Book (Version 8). Key features …

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Netflix Launches in Turkey

by Yvette Raikes

Following close on the launch in Poland, Netflix has now begun a localised SVOD service in Turkey, charging 15.99 lire (€4.82) a month. Although Turkish titles are being streamed, currently over 80% of content …

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Oculus and MSI to Collaborate?

by Bob Raikes

Oculus is reported by Digitimes to be interested in working with Micro-Star International (MSI), who showed a VR backpack notebook system, developed with HTC, at the recent Tokyo Game Show.

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NEC Display Updates LED Line Up

by Bob Raikes

NEC Display Solutions in America has expanded its line of small pitch LED which now goes from 1.2mm to 6mm for indoor use and from 5.8mm to 12.0mm for outdoors. Displays can be configured …

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