Vol 23 – Issue 46 – Page 8

Opportunities and Challenges in AR & VR Hardware and Software

by Chris Chinnock

Winslow Burkeson of the Rory Meyers College of Nursing at NYU described what he called “experiential supercomputing”. He is basically trying to build a medical holodeck with funding from the National Science Foundation. It …

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Verizon Describes Its “envrmnt’ Platform

by Chris Chinnock

Christian Egeler noted that Verizon is more than just a wireless cellular service provider. They own AOL, The Huffington Post, Hearst Publishing, Engadget, TechCrunch and more, offering services in big data, security, advertising, IOT …

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360º Experiments with Media Companies

by Chris Chinnock

This session at the NYC event focused on what some leading media companies are doing to develop and distribute mostly VR content. For example, the NY Times started doing 360º VR news stories about …

Advertising and Marketing Panel Looks at Advertising

by Chris Chinnock

This panel explored how VR and AR are being used by advertisers today. The first conclusion: no one is making money in this area right now and there is no good way to measure …

The Business of VR Will Grow

by Chris Chinnock

This session featured a summary of market data for VR presented by Justin Hendrix of the NYC Media Lab. He started by showing the famous Gartner hype cycle chart that currently places AR near …

What is Reality?

by Chris Chinnock

This panel focused on how VR/AR will change the world. In this session, leading AR/VR developers discussed how they have been impressed with this new medium and provided examples of content that had an …

NYC Media Lab Hosts “Exploring Future Reality” Workshop

by Chris Chinnock

This was a one day event hosted in Manhattan that featured a number of panel discussions, AR/VR exhibits and a series of five minute technology pitches. It was quite a good event and cast …

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Optoma Plans ISE

by Milos Pavlovic

Optoma said that it will show an UltraHD single chip DLP projector as well as laser phosphor (ZU650) and 1080P gaming projectors, using Darbee enhancement technology, at ISE 2017. The company will also show …

Matrox C900 Certified with DigiShow

by Bob Raikes

FutureSoftware has said that it has certified the Matrox C900 nine-output graphics card with its DigiShow digital signage software. (Matrox Makes 3 x 3 Video Walls Easier) Chris Fulton, CEO and founder of FUTURESoftware …

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Lumens Completes LED Factory in Vietnam

by Bob Raikes

Korean sources report that LED maker, Lumens, is boosting its LED production facilities in Vietnam to support growth in its supply to Samsung for LCD TV backlights. Samsung is reported to be shifting TV …

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Tech Data Now Distributing Mini-Projectors

by Isaac Oburu

Tech Data has started to distribute Aiptek’s mini-projectors in the UK.

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Komsa Adds ZTE to Portfolio

by Isaac Oburu

Komsa has started to distribute ZTE smartphones in Poland.