Vol 24 – Issue 08 – Page 6

Education Watch: Is VR Headed for a Pricing Failure?

by Len Scrogan

The evening weather was hot and unforgiving, the humidity beyond palpable. Not a great time to be wearing a suit in Puerto Vallarta, I thought, nevertheless enjoying the enchanting gourmet meal set out with …

Digital Projection Adopts Vioso For Blending and Warping

by Alan Spencer

Digital Projection, in partnership with Vioso, has announced the availability of its range of projectors now with integrated blending and warping solutions. Vioso was borne of a university research project ten years ago has …

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TCO Certified Reveals Improvements In Factory Working Conditions

by Alan Spencer

A new report, “Impacts and Insights” looks at the progress made in 2016 on supplier chain working conditions, conflict minerals initiatives and inclusion of safer chemicals brought about due to products being TCO Certified. …

More Cable Operators Join the SES Ultra HD Trials

by Alan Spencer

SES has announced that an additional six more US cable operators have agreed to join its Ultra HD trials. (Frontier using SES for Service Delivery of Ultra HD) Currently there are over 15 cable …

Sony Sold 915,000 PlayStation VR Headsets in 4.5 Months

by Alan Spencer

Sony sold 915,000 PlayStation VR headsets in the last quarter of 2106 and up to 19th February this year. Sony is the only one of the big three tethered VR headset makers to release …

New LG VR Headset Based on SteamVR Tracking

by Alan Spencer

LG is believed to be developing a new VR headset that will be based on Valve’s OpenVR platform, including using SteamVR Tracking. It was always Valve’s intention, when they set out to build their …

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Dell EMC Retains Exertis as Distribution Partner

by Isaac Oburu

Dell has retained Exertis as their distributor in the United Kingdom following a recent global rationalisation process as Dell has decided that it has too many distributors.

The Importance of Catch-Up and Personal Profiles for OTT TV

by Alan Spencer

SPB TV, a provider of end-to-end OTT TV solutions, conducted an online survey of their end-users of OTT TV and video services and found that this year is the year of the TV catch-up …

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Facebook’s New Video App Now on Samsung Smart TVs

by Alan Spencer

Facebook has launched its video app on Samsung Smart TV models of the last two years (2015-2017). Facebook has also stated that the app will be available on Apple TV and Fire TV, as …

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Austrian Post Tries VR for Promotion

by Alan Spencer

Invidis reports that the Austrian Post organisation (Österreichische Post) has implemented a new VR 3D that shows a branch of the postal and telecommunications organisation. In the four-minute film, a virtual tour of a …

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Outlook for Personal Computing Devices Mainly Negative

by Alan Spencer

IDC is forecasting that global shipments of personal computing devices, including tablets, will decline from a total of 435.0 million units in 2016 to 418.2 million units at the end of 2021. This represents …

IDC Forecasts AR and VR to Reach $13.9 Billion in 2017

by Alan Spencer

IDC is forecasting that worldwide revenues for AR and VR will reach $13.9 billion in 2017, which is an increase of 130.5% over 2016 when the revenues were $6.1 billion. AR and VR spending …