Vol 24 – Issue 47 – Page 6

Eyevis Hits the Buffers – Files for Bankruptcy

by Bob Raikes

As a result of high interest costs, and the pre-financing needs of projects, Eyevis Gesellschaft für Projektions- und Großbildtechnik GmbH and Eyevis Holding GmbH in Germany have have filed for bankruptcy, although under the …

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UK Loves iPlayer – Social Media TV to Grow

by Bob Raikes

UK TV Licensing has published a report, Telescope 2017, on UK TV viewing and said that just 8% of UK adults have watched live TV on a social media platform, but predicts that this …

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Samsung Partners with Sydney Hospital on VR Pain Project

by Andrew Fenn

Samsung has designed a VR solution for pain management, in response to the opioid crisis and over-prescription of pain medication. The technology is currently under a clinical trial at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, …

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D-Box, Cineplex and IMax Launch Cinematic VR Experience

by Andrew Fenn

D-Box, Cineplex and IMax have launched a collaborative VR cinema experience at the Scotiabank Theatre in Ottawa, Canada. The company installed ten motion seats at the Cineplex theatre’s new VR centre, which also features …

7thSense Design Overwhelms with Pixels

by Bob Raikes

7thSense Design has set up a spectacular for the 2017 production of the “Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes” at the Radio City in New York. The system had video on all eight …

Amimon Brings Its Wireless Technology to AR/VR

by Bob Raikes

Amimon showed its wireless technology used in a VR/AR application with ‘zero’ latency at the VRX conference in San Francisco. Unlike 60GHz solutions (for example from TPCast and Intel), the Amimon technology uses the …

Small Panel Makers See Overall Improvement

by Yvette Raikes

Last month, the small and medium panel makers we track saw the overall volume drop 3.1% MoM and 6.1% YoY. This time the monthly fall was reduced to 1.1% while YoY the number of …

PlayStation 4 Sales Now 70.6 Million, PSVR Hits 2 Million

by Andrew Fenn

Sony recently announced that the PlayStation 4 has achieved 70.6 million unit sales. The earlier PlayStation 3 sold around 84 million. The firm also revealed that a combined total of more than 617.8 million …

Vuzix Signs Exclusive Supply Agreement with Toshiba

by Andrew Fenn

Vuzix has announced an exclusive $5 million supply agreement with Toshiba. Vuzix will supply Toshiba with its M300 smart glasses solution for an agreed three-year term, during which time it will be co-branded and …

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Delta Promotes Standard LED Configurations

by Bob Raikes

Delta of Taiwan’s EMEA organisation has released a set of pre-set size configurations of large format monitor solutions in Full-HD and UHD resolutions, based on small pitch LED technology for indoor use. Intended for …

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Kramer & Epson Collaborate in EMEA

by Bob Raikes

Kramer Electronics, Ltd., has formed an alliance with Epson Europe to collaborate in EMEA on meeting room solutions. Epson will offer a bundle of a Kramer Via Go wireless collaboration device with Epson projectors. …

Oculus Releases List of Recommended and Minimum GPU Specs

by Andrew Fenn

Oculus has released a comprehensive list of minimum and recommended GPU requirements for Rift content. Many games will work with entry-level cards, with graphical settings dialled down a little, while a GPU from the …