Intel acquired Israeli-based chip maker Habana Labs in 2019 to advance its AI strategy and strengthen its portfolio of AI accelerators for the cloud and data center. The deal was worth approximately $2 billion. Was it a good deal? It’s shaping up. This week at the AWS re: Invent 2020 conference, AWS CEO Andy Jassy Introduced elastic computing (EC2) instances … Read more
(Source: Sony) Sony Electronics announced the debut of its Spatial Reality Display (SR Display), a new Stereo 3D display made with Sony’s Eye-Sensing Light Field Display (ELFD) technology. The display does not require virtual reality glasses or a headset. The display uses a 4K panel with micro-optical lenticular lens. (Source: Sony) In the past, such displays which used … Read more
Venerable pioneer graphics AIB company still delivering
It used to be a pain to hook up two or more monitors to a single computer. But with DisplayLink, it got much easier. You could plug one display into the video output (VGA, DVI) of the computer. Then connect the other monitors to a DisplayLink adapter and the DisplayLink adapter to a USB port. Load a small driver, and … Read more
Augmented Reality Where We All Will Live Founded in 2016 in San Mateo, CA by Dr. Kevin Zhong, DreamWorld has developed an AR viewing headset that can offer the user a virtual 4K display. Wearing the headset, one could watch a movie in an airplane or in their living room—provided you weren’t bothered by the see-through aspect of the … Read more
Kopin has been a leading developer of micro OLED for some time and recently announced its latest implementation of its Lightning 2.6K × 2.6K OLED display has achieved breakthrough color fidelity: > 115% sRGB. This fidelity number is believed to be the world's highest achieved on duo-stack OLED microdisplays and equal to that on the best single-stack OLED microdisplays, says … Read more
Portrait Displays’ Calman makes it so
The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) today announced that it has released version 2.0 of the DisplayPort Alternate Mode (“Alt Mode”) standard. DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.0 provides seamless interoperability with the new USB4 specification published by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) and fully enables all of the features in the latest version of the DisplayPort standard (version 2.0) through the … Read more
Looking Glass came out in 2019 and stunned the world with their holographic 3D display. It’s not a true holograph in that it doesn’t use inferences or wave patterns but does use light fields and makes an amazingly deep 3D display that you can look into and around, reminds me a bit of an infinity mirror, especially when you watch … Read more
Pixelworks has been massaging and polishing pixels for over 22 years and they know a thing or two about what’s needed and how to accomplish optimized graphics display capabilities. The mobile space has some very specific challenges. The camera makers and display makers have gotten out of cadence in their developments resulting in different resolutions for 3-axis cameras and the … Read more
Plessey, a developer of microLED technology for AR/MR displays in Devon, UK, said they have decided to work with Facebook to help the company achieve its vision of the next computing platform. Plessey designs and manufactures full-field emissive microLED displays, which promise both high pixel-density and high brightness. Under a new commercial agreement, Plessy’s LED manufacturing operations will be dedicated … Read more
Using eye-tracking to drive a set of slanted parallax-barrier slats, Continental has developed a new 3D display system for the Genesis GV80 instrument panel. Continental aims to revolutionize the way displays are configured in automotive vehicles. The automotive OEM technology company is developing an unusual cockpit solution, the Natural 3D Lightfield Instrument Cluster, in cooperation with Silicon Valley company … Read more
