Vol 24 – Issue 04 – Page 4

Zytronic Provides Mobile Phone Charging For Hajj Pilgrims

by Alan Spencer

Pilgrims travelling between Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia are now able to top up and recharge their phones at any of forty ZyBrid Projected Capacitive Technology (PCT) touch sensors from Zytronic. The distance …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Touch| Vol 24 - Issue 04

DisplayMate Looks to the Smartphone Future

by Bob Raikes

Display Daily’s good friend, Dr Ray Soneira of DisplayMate, has published his thoughts about the future of displays in mobile phones based on his experience of testing the best smartphone displays over the last …

Tags:AMOLED| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 04

WiFi Interference Issue with LG Ultrafine 5K Displays

by Alan Spencer

In some case. the new LG Ultrafine 5K Displays that LG launched to go with the new Apple Mac Book Pro (More News of LG’s Macbook Monitors) appear to be affected by interference caused …

Crystal Offers ‘Transparent’ LED

by Bob Raikes

Crystal Display Systems in the UK has started to sell ‘transparent LED Glass’ Displays for daylight and shop window applications. The LEDs are in a custom subframe and are available in a number of …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 24 - Issue 04

PMA Research Shows Double-Digit Growth For US Professional LFD Market

by Bob Raikes

PMA Research (PMA) has published its latest set of sell-through tracking reports on large-format (32″ and larger) flat panel displays being sold by leading US AV/IT Distributors and Pro AV dealers and integrators who …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| PMA Research| Vol 24 - Issue 04

Facebook-Owned Company Oculus Loses Court Case

by Bob Raikes

Oculus has been ordered to pay half a billion dollars to the games company ZeniMax after a jury determined that the Oculus CEO, Palmer Luckey, failed to comply with a non-disclosure agreement. The case …

Tags:Litigation| Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus Rift| Vol 24 - Issue 04

Paragon Projection Introduces a 4K, 27,000 Lumens Laser Projector

by Alan Spencer

The Panasonic 3-Chip DLP Solid Shine laser projector (PT-RQ32K) has quad pixel drive technology and creates 4K+ images. Two units have been added to Paragon’s rental stock with the expectation that these will find …

VRScore Benchmark Tool Allows HMD Testing

by Alan Spencer

Basemark will release the VRScore which enables evaluation of PC VR-readiness. The benchmark suite includes a performance test that stresses your system’s capabilities and a latency test that measures your HMD’s display latency. Basemark …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Testing| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 04

SID-ME 2017 Wearable and Projection Displays Symposium Announced

by Alan Spencer

This year’s Spring Meeting of the Society for Information Display Mid-Europe Chapter, SID-ME 2017, with the topic “Wearables and Projection Displays” will be held from 13th to 14th March in Dresden, Germany. The symposium …

Sony Mobile Projector Suffers from Speckle

by Chris Chinnock

Sony asked if I wanted to review their MP-CL1A mobile projector so I said yes. It is based on the Microvision pico engine which consists of an RGB laser source and a 2 axis …

Tags:Laser Projectors| Pico Projectors| sony| Vol 24 - Issue 04

Light – Particles or Waves? Light Field – Wave or Geometric Optics? – Part 2

by Kenneth Li

A few weeks ago Photon – Particle or Wave? Light Field – Wave or Ray? at whether, in designing display optics, you really need to decide whether to work as though light is a …

Tags:Light Field Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 04

JCDecaux Result 26/01/2017

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

JCDecaux reported FY16 Q4 revenues at €983 mn ($1,052 mn) bringing annual revenues to €3393 mn ($3,630 mn). The FY16 revenue was up 5.8% as compared to FY15’s figure of €3,207 mn ($3481 mn), …

Tags:Financial Data| JCDecaux| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 04