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by Alan Spencer
According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker, shipments of wearable devices reached 33.9 million units in the last quarter of 2016, growing 16.9% year-over-year. This represented an all-time high for the wearables …
Tags:IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 09| Wearable Market
by Bob Raikes
The PIDA in Taiwan, a trade association, has said that it expects the use of OLEDs in automotive displays to take off from 2018 with demand for automotive displays expected to develop from 94.64 …
Tags:Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 09
by Alan Spencer
Balalji Telefilms of India is launching AltBalaji, an OTT entertainment platform that aims to provide 300 hours of original shows in the first year. The commercial launch will be in mid-April 2017. The platform …
Tags:India| Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 24 - Issue 09
by Bob Raikes
Realtek has joined with Celeno Communications to develop a joint reference design for a ‘4K’ STB. The design uses Celeno’s CL2440 4×4 802.11ac wave 2 Wi-Fi chip and Realtek’s RTD1295 SoC. The companies say …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 09
by Alan Spencer
Freeview Play TVs and set-top boxes sales have now exceeded one million units in the UK. Freeview Play was launched in late 2015, and brings a combination of live, catch-up and on demand content …
Tags:FTA (Free to Air)| Mobile Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 24 - Issue 09
by Arthur Berman
Laforge Optical Inc. (San Mateo, CA) is developing a product line of augmented reality smart glasses. The glasses overlay video content derived from the wearer’s iOS or Android smartphone as images in the wearer’s …
Tags:Augmented Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 09
by Bob Raikes
As usual, after finalising our MDM report, we found several stories that slipped through the cracks or that we didn’t spot at the time and found elsewhere. Omate was showing a new 4G-enabled smartwatch …
Tags:audio| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 09
by Bob Raikes
We missed an earlier report that Arm and Sensormotoric Instruments (SMI) were planning to collaborate on demonstrating at the GDC that a combination of the latest Arm Mali G71 GPU and SMI’s technology is …
Tags:AR/VR| Arm| Gaze Recognition| Mobile Display Monitor| SMI| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 09
by Bob Raikes
Qualcomm has released a new VR development kit, the VRDK, for the Snapdragon 835 processor which is the flagship chip for the company at the moment and was including in the new Sony phone …
Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Samsung| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 09
by Len Scrogan
Nearly two years ago, Chris Chinnock penned an article about MUV Interactive’s Bird user interface: He reported “the education and ProAV markets are their top priorities,” and although MUV had not yet begun production, …
Tags:display technology| Education| Gesture Recognition| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 09
by Bob Raikes
Broadpeak, of Rennes, France and a supplier of content delivery network (CDN) technologies and live and VoD servers for content providers and pay-TV operators worldwide said that it has a new low latency service …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 24 - Issue 09
by Bob Raikes
Ericsson and Vodafone have undertaken research in Germany on delays in broadband and have found, using Electroencephalography (EEG) equipment to measure brain activity, that even small delays and disturbances raise the level of tension …
Tags:Ericsson| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vodafone| Vol 24 - Issue 09
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