Vol 25 - Issue 04

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Light Field Lab Raises $7 Million in Seed Funding

by Andrew Fenn

Light Field Lab has raised $7 million in seed funding for its holographic display technology. Khosla Ventures, Sherpa Capital and R7 Partners have made investments in the technology, which is designed to show holographic …

Tags:Investment| Light Field Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Google Shows off AR 3D Model Viewer Prototype

by Andrew Fenn

Google’s Daydream WebXR team is working on a new 3D model viewer called Article. In a blog post, Reza Ali and Josh Carpenter said: “Article is a 3D model viewer that works for all …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Pimax Announces Its “8K” VR Headset is Delayed Until 2018 Q2

by Andrew Fenn

Following the company’s appearance at CES 2018, Pimax has announced that its backers won’t see their finished headsets until the second quarter of 2018, delaying the initially expected delivery date by several months. Pimax …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Wynn Hotel Sportsbook Features a 21.7m-Pixel LED Video Wall

by Andrew Fenn

The Wynn Hotel’s newly-renovated sportsbook recently opened on the Las Vegas Strip. Central to the building’s face-lift is a brand new 1,176-tile, 21.7-million-pixel, 457m² SiliconCore Peony LED videowall, with a 2.6mm pixel pitch and …

Tags:Casinos| Large Display Monitor| LED| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| USA| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Future Apple Watch Digital Crown Could Incorporate Force Touch

by Andrew Fenn

Apple has applied for a new patent that suggests it may incorporate Force Touch into the digital crown of the Apple Watch in the future. The patent description states, “When force is exerted on …

Tags:Apple| Haptics| Mobile Display Monitor| Patents| Vol 25 - Issue 04| Wearables

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Continental: The Future of Mobility is Electric

by Ken Werner

Continental is a huge global Tier 1 supplier to automotive industry that is develops and delivers subsystems for nearly every imaginable automotive function. (A different division is the well-know tire maker.) Among the concepts …

Tags:audio| Automotive| CES 2018| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Philips Boosts OLED TV Range with HDR10+

by Bob Raikes

Philips (TPVision) has announced two new OLED TVs for 2018 in addition to the 973 model that was shown at IFA. The 873 and 803 ranges have features including HDR10+ and Ambilight (3 sides) …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Philips| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 25 - Issue 04

LiveMap Developing an AR Motorcycle Helmet

by Arthur Berman

The augmented reality motorcycle helmet developed by LiveMap (Moscow, Russian Federation) has now evolved into a working prototype. LiveMap reported that the company has succeeded in producing the so-called Prototype C and that it …

Tags:Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs| Vol 25 - Issue 04

LeEco Still Struggling to Survive

by Bob Raikes

LeEco continues to struggle to survive, with some shareholders calling for Jia Yueting to use money that he has in other businesses such as his automotive interests, to payback some of their investments in …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LeEco (formerly LeTV)| Mobile Display Monitor| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Vol 25 - Issue 04

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Solar-Tectic LLC and Blue Wave Win Patent

by Damir Lokas

We reported on new materials from Solar-Tectic LLC (“ST”) last month and the company has now said that it, and Blue Wave Semiconductors, Inc., (“BWS”), has said that it has a new patent (U.S. …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Materials| Mobile Display Monitor| Patents| TFT| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Leader Simplifys HDR Production with LV5490

by Milos Pavlovic

Leader said that it has added new features to its LV5490 4K high dynamic range waveform monitor. The instrument now provides full direct support for ITU-R BT.2408-0 ‘Operational practices in HDR television production’. Published …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Test Equipment| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Chinese Gaming Market Growing Well

by Bob Raikes

Data from Sigmaintell, quoted in the Taiwanese press, forecasts that gaming monitor shipments in China will be 1.07 million units in 2018, up from just 450,000 in 2017. TPV was the biggest supplier, followed …

Tags:China| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 04