Dell’s U3223QE ultra-black sharable 32-inch 4K monitor
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The pantone color of the year is Very Peri
This year, Pantone announced a brand new color to the color pantheon, Veri Peri. The association’s Laurie Pressman, vice president of the Pantone Institute, said the group’s members felt they had to come up with something special and something that expressed all the feelings and moods associated with 2022, a year that people hope will signal a new beginning. So, … Read more
Think Silicon’s new GPU and AI accelerator
Think Silicon, the IP GPU company in Patras, Greece that Applied Materials acquired in May 2020, just revealed their new 3D and AI-based GPU IP. The company was founded in 2007. In 2009 they released their first graphics accelerator called Think2D and a display controller ThinkLCD. Then in 2011 the company released a vector graphics GPU, Think VG. They licensed … Read more
New SPUD to Splay lets you play
Alex Wesley with collapsible projection screens (Source Next Corps Illuminate) Alexander (Alex) Wesley founded Arovia with George Zhu, CTO, and Justin Mintzer, CMO, in Houston, Texas, in April 2015. Wesley started Arovia after leaving optical metrology developer, Zygo in Connecticut in 2014. In between, he developed the Spontaneous Pop-Up Display (SPUD). The idea for SPUD came from years of … Read more
Happy birthday, PIXEL
On a cool early autumn day in Bellingham, WA, in 1965. The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers—SPIE staff were still in the glow of celebrating their 15th anniversary when they published Frederic Billingsley’s paper, Digital Video Processing at JPL.
Happy birthday PIXEL
Image credit, JVC Creative Commons On a cool early autumn day in Bellingham, WA, in 1965. The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers—SPIE staff were still in the glow of celebrating their 15th anniversary when they published Frederic Billingsley’s paper, Digital Video Processing at JPL. They didn’t know it at the time, but it was a landmark publication and firmly … Read more
Portrait Displays gets embedded in projectors and chips
Portrait Displays announced a new collaboration with MediaTek that the companies say will enhance smart TV viewing experiences. MediaTek claiming to be the number one television chipset provider says it will, with Portrait Display’s help, provide realistic and authentic visual imagery, taking the scenery straight from the director’s lens into viewers’ living rooms. Displays (TVs, Monitors) that are Portrait Display … Read more
Smartglasses: Truly interactive or passive viewing goggles?
It's been nearly a decade since Google Glass landed on the scene. Still, many new smartglasses entrants remain plagued by essentially an underwhelming experience. Yes, there are already AR apps for art, directions, learning, trying on clothes, choosing new furniture, and more. But few smartglasses bring AR experiences to life. Real interactivity is missing. AR smartglasses designed for cycling and … Read more
Collaborating around the Campfire with augmented reality
Meta technology resurfaces as new company with AR pioneer Jay Wright at the helm
Collaborating around the Campfire with augmented reality
One of the first companies to help develop AR was Qualcomm. In 2008, Jay Wright initiated and led a Qualcomm team to create an SDK of AR tools, libraries, and demos. The group’s work got a positive reception demonstrating pent-up demand and interest in AR. They were developing the first tools that became Qualcomm’s Vuforia organization. In Oct 2015, Qualcomm … Read more
Your next Kindle may be in color
E Ink launched its newest Kaleido color eReader display
Your next Kindle may be in color
Source: PocketBook E Ink launched the first generation of its Kaleido color eReader display in Q2 2020. Conceptually, the Kaleido was not unlike previous E Ink color eReader displays. That is, it was an active-matrix monochrome ePaper display with a color filter array (CFA) to provide the color. The problem with the previous versions was that the reflectivity and … Read more