LED-based video walls are getting bigger and bigger and pixel pitches continue to shrink. That means these large canvases can have a lot more pixels. 30M, 50M even 100M pixels are not uncommon. The problem becomes delivering high quality pixels to these canvases over the existing distribution methods. To understand more about these issues, we […]
New White Paper: Motion Grading Comes of Age
Insight Media has released a new white paper titled: Motion Grading Comes of Age. It can be downloaded for free with a registration. Motion grading is a new concept developed by Pixelworks in cooperation with the content creation community. Called TrueCut® Motion Grading, this tool set allows post-production facilities the ability to create any desired motion […]
Hayden Planetarium and Christie Lead the Way to HDR Domed Solutions
The New York-based American Museum of Natural History, where the famous Hayden Planetarium is housed, held a press event on July 17 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing, along with the 150th anniversary of the founding of the museum. If you have never been there, you need to if in New York. […]
Envisics Shows Impressive Augmented Reality Auto HUD
After working for a year in stealth mode, holography pioneer and auto head-up display (HUD) developer Envisics showed off their advanced solution at CES 2019. I missed that demo, but the company invited me to their Detroit office to discuss the technology. What I saw was clearly the best auto HUD I have seen to […]
A Tour of the Vuzix Waveguide Factory
By Chris Chinnock I recently had the opportunity to meet with Vuzix CEO Paul Travers and get a tour of their waveguide manufacturing and AR headset assembly facility in Rochester, New York. These waveguides are the key optical element in their new Blade AR headsets. I am aware of only a few companies that have […]
Glasses-free Displays at CES
by Chris Chinnock, Insight Media We met with four companies at CES: Vision Engineering, Creal 3D, Dimenco and StreamTV. StreamTV had a very good location right in central hall next to the LG Electronics booth. They were highlighting their latest large format glass-free 3D displays along with some smaller notebook and phone-sized versions. StreamTV has been […]
MicroTiles LED Offers Nice Innovations that Could be Disruptive
by Chris Chinnock, Insight Media Christie has just introduced a new LED-based MicroTile solution that will replace the DLP-based version it introduced in 2010 time frame. Just as the DLP-based version offered a new form factor and design options with leading edge technology, so too does the new LED-based version. To dig a little deeper […]
VR I Didn’t See at CES
by Chris Chinnock, Insight Media At CES 2019, I had a chance to see some of the AR innovations, but there was not enough time to check out VR as well. And I missed a ton of stuff. According to a DigiTimes report, a total of 393 AR/VR firms attended CES 2019, among which 261 […]
Is Better Supply Chain Coordination the Key to AR/VR Adoption?
by Chris Chinnock, Insight Media Adoption of VR has been a rocky road. Early estimates of headset sales fell by the wayside, although they are respectable in the low millions range. The same can be said of the AR market where early consumer enthusiasm is giving way a belief that enterprise applications will lead the […]
Enterprise Survey: AR Adoption Coming Faster than you Think
by Chris Chinnock, Insight Media I had a chance to speak with Geof Wheelwright, the Director of Marketing Communications at Atheer the other day regarding the results of an internal survey they did focusing on the use of Augmented Reality in the Enterprise market. There were a number of interesting results but here is one […]