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KN2 Google Makes AR/VR Display Breakthroughs

by Bob Raikes

Clay Bavor is from Google where he is the VP responsible for AR & VR. After checking with the audience how many people had tried ‘good VR’, he explained that when he introduces people …

KN1 Press Breakfast and Keynotes – AUO Promotes LCD

by Bob Raikes

Our week at the SID exhibition, after the press conference, started with the annual SID Press breakfast when Sri Peruvembra, who looks after marketing for the SID, gave an update. One of the topics …

Nanoco and Kyulux to Develop and Market Their Technologies Collaboratively

by Ken Werner

During Display Week, British quantum-dot (QD) developer Nanoco and German Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence (TADF) developer Kyulux announced a collaboration and joint development agreement. The announcement called each of the partners a “world leader” …

AR and VR on the SID Exhibition Floor

by Matthew Brennesholtz

There were a number of AR and VR systems on the Display Week show floor that weren’t represented in either the AR/VR Business Conference or the Technical sessions. This article is intended to give …

MindMaze Trying to Track Faces

by Bob Raikes

MindMaze is a start-up that is developing face tracking that is said to be compatible with any VR headset as it uses low cost electrodes in the foam padding around the headset to detect …

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AR/VR Technical Sessions at Display Week

by Matthew Brennesholtz

One of the highlights of Display week for a person with a technical background like me are the technical sessions. I attended most of the Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) sessions and …

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JDI Shows Floating 3D and Light Field Displays

by Chris Chinnock

Japan Display Inc, (JDI) showed a number of interesting demos including two 3D displays. One was an aerial floating display that featured the image of a fire that appeared to be floating inside a …

ARM Shows HDR-to-SDR Conversion

by Chris Chinnock

ARM was in the i-Zone showing off its HDR-to-SDR conversion technology. This is technology that was acquired via Arm’s purchase of Apical exactly one year ago. The technology is being aimed at HDR device …

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Exalos Showcases SLEDs

by Chris Chinnock

Exalos is a developer of superluminescent LEDs. These are LEDs that have a spectral width that is similar to conventional LEDs but with the output beam characteristics of a laser. Lasers also use an …

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New Near Eye Display Metrology Tools Introduced

by Chris Chinnock

We saw new developments in near eye display metrology at SID DisplayWeek from Gamma Scientific, Photo Research and Chroma. These are new tools that have been developed because of the unusual measurement needs of …

Light Field Display Papers at SID

by Chris Chinnock

There were three papers in the Light Field Display session (61) at SID DisplayWeek. First was Thomas Burnett of FoVI3D, formerly Zebra Imaging. He started his talk with a very nice definition of a …

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Summary of Holographic Papers

by Chris Chinnock

Session 54 was called “Holographic” and was a catchall for some related papers. In the first paper, Kai-Han Chang from Kent State University talked about a novel way to reduce speckle in laser illumination. …

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