May 28, 2914, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—We talked with Anna Jen from Epson about their latest Moverio BT-200 head-mounted displays. These binocular eyeglass-style displays have a number of features to enable numerous AR and display functions. The glasses are clear and have stereo imagers for AR capabilities. The coaxial displays are mounted within…
May 28, 2914, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—We talked with Anna Jen from Epson about their latest Moverio BT-200 head-mounted displays. These binocular eyeglass-style displays have a number of features to enable numerous AR and display functions. The glasses are clear and have stereo imagers for AR capabilities. The coaxial displays are mounted within…
April 5, 2014, NAB, Las Vegas—Chris Cookson from Innovative Technologies talked about the possibilities for cinema in the future. The rapidly changing technology landscape is opening many avenues for filmmakers to apply their craft in new ways. Before starting on prognosticating, Cookson reviewed the past 50 years. In ’64 there were many changes happening, and…
April 6, 2014, NAB, Las Vegas—HP introduced a new set of DreamColor Displays, which claim to offer better color gamut and higher resolution. The new displays include new functionality to simplify system integration and ongoing operations. The displays supply color-critical 4K support for production functions. The HP Z27x and Z24x displays for PCs and Macs…
March 26, 2014, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Douglas Lanmar and David Luebke from NVIDIA described their efforts in developing head-mounted displays that are more in line with size and weight as sunglasses. Ivan Sutherland’s work back in 1968 resulted in head-mounted displays that were reasonably thin and aligned with the visual axis. Although of…
March 25, 2014, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Matteo Garibotti from the University of Genoa talked about the devices and technologies that will inhabit our media viewing space in the future. Increasingly, 3-D is moving into cinema, games, and at a slower pace, to TV. These trends are driving changes in displays and other visual…
March 25, 2014, GPU technology conference, San Jose, CA—Kobi Ben Zvi from Mishor talked about heads-up displays and augmented reality for cars. There is an ongoing trend to include more augmented reality functions in cars to provide greater ease of use, safety, and greater access to relevant information. The advance of augmented reality in cars…
March 2014 – At the NPD Display Search USFPD conference they discussed the hot topic of wearable devices. The talks were presented by Pebble, 4iiii, Qualcomm and Martian, in addition to the overview by NPD. While the market for wearable devices is large, the small size of the displays and the number of options available…
March 3, 2014, US Flat Panel Display Connected Devices Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Paul Gagnon from NPD DisplaySearch described the trends and drivers for the variety of flat panel displays. The market is going into a period of introspection with the top issue being good enough performance versus convenience and cost. The industry has always been…
November 20, 2013, Printed Electronics Show, Santa Clara, CA—Karl Willis from Autodesk talked about creating new forms of displays and combining optics and electronics with 3-D printers. The goal is customized objects from fully printed devices. In collaboration with Disney, they developed new form factors for displays, sensors, and illumination. Light pipes inside a 3-D…