By Chris Chinnock 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 way in […]
Enterprise Survey: AR Adoption Coming Faster than you Think
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 clear highlight: 70% believe that […]
White Paper: Evaluating Video Wall Solutions in Retail and Collaboration
Oct. 1, 2018 – Insight Media has just created a new white paper titled “Evaluating Video Wall Solutions in Retail and Collaboration.” It can be downloaded for free with a registration at this link: https://tinyurl.com/y8m2muwn. In this white paper, we look at some video wall options from the perspective of the buyer for retail and collaboration […]
HDR on Projectors can be Tricky
You may have noticed that a lot of home theater and some ProAV projectors are now advertising HDR support. That should mean that they are able to detect and HDR signal and switch into a mode that will properly display the images. That may sound easy, but the devil is in the details. First, there […]
Cable Industry Gearing up for High Bandwidth Needs of Light Field Displays
CableLabs, the development group funding by the cable industry, held their summer conference last week in Colorado. A number of topics were discussed, but I want to focus on their views of display use in the future. The video below, called The Near Future, Ready for Anything, was produced specifically for the event and provides […]
Vuzix may be Early with a Real microLED Product
Vuzix, the maker of Augmented Reality smart glasses, is working with Plessey Semiconductor and Jasper Display to create a new display device to drive their AR smart glasses. The development roadmap calls for monochrome devices this summer and full color by the end of the year. That could mean a new smartglass product would become […]
DigiLens Announces New Two-Layer AR Waveguide Display for Smart Helmets
On the heels of a $25 million Series C fundraising round, DigiLens introduces a new waveguide eyeglass display for AR applications-constructed from only two inkjet coated grating layers. It’s thinner, lighter, brighter, and significantly lower in cost. SID Display Week – Los Angeles, CA – May 22, 2018: DigiLens Inc., the Silicon Valley-based company revolutionizing […]
Should HDR Displays Follow the PQ Curve?
This topic of discussion started as an email thread in the HDR work group of the International Committee of Display Metrology (ICDM) and then sparked a long discussion in the recent face-to-face meeting in Mt. View, California. Per agreement with ICDM, they agreed to allow me to write this article. Many in the group believed […]
Light Field Displays are Coming
If you haven’t been following activities in Light Field displays, here’s a quick update – there is a lot of activity in this area with products likely to be commercialized in 2018. Investments are flowing and standards organizations are getting serious about finding ways to distribute the vast amounts of data that will be needed […]
Christie Tries to Separate from the Herd with New Apex 0.9mm LED Video Wall
Christie has added a new 0.9mm pitch model to their Apex lineup of LED video walls. They are not the first to commercialize 0.9mm cabinets as they wanted to be sure they could deliver top level quality consistent with their Apex brand of LED video walls. The new 0.9mm cabinet/tile has a resolution of 640×360 […]