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Light Field Lab raises $7 million and plans to change entertainment forever

Lytro spin-off plans is readying prototypes for holographic content Light Field Lab, Inc. made its debut last year at NAB. The company was founded by former Lytro executives and plans to use light field technology ...

Cryptocurrency mining use of AIBs

The brutality of numbers: You need to make $5,000 a year to make it crypto-mining worthwhile. We have been investigating the impact on the AIB market by cryptocurrency monitoring for a while and we’ve written ...

EPYC and Ryzen embedded processors launched by AMD

Company expands its footprint  AMD has introduced two new product families—the AMD EPYC Embedded 3000 processor and AMD Ryzen Embedded V1000 processor. AMD EPYC Embedded 3000 brings the power of “Zen” to a variety of ...

VESA is pushing the envelope of display tech

Compression, HDR, USB-c, automotive and more The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) announced that the growing trend of viewing higher-resolution digital content over mobile devices is fueling the adoption of DisplayPort and other VESA standards ...

Facebook introduces DIY VR for Quill

Facebook’s popular drawing tool gets an update, and it’s a big one, with tools for animation and support for professional pipelines. Facebook’s compelling VR drawing tool, Quill, has been updated with animation tools, and improvements ...

Intel improves GPU power management

Fine-grained voltage and frequency controls As always, Intel presented papers at the world famous and prestigious IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference — ISSCC. One Intel paper was particularly interesting to us. It was titled, ...

National Battery day

Where does the time go. Had to believe another year has rolled by and here we are, just after Valentine’s day celebrating another National Battery day—wow! While unable to find out who invented Battery Day, ...

Projecting 4K images

Dollars per nit Three new 4K projectors were recently announced, Acer’s $4k, 4K 3K lumen VL7860, N-tech’s $0.47k, 4k, 1.5k lumen, and BenQ’s $1.5k, 4k, 2.2k lumen HT2550 projector. Acer’s and BenQ’s are also HDR ...

Getting smarter about glasses

2018 the year of the specs As you may recall, you regular readers of TechWatch, I’ve made bets with people that 20% of us elite class will be wearing attractive looking smart glasses by 2020.  ...

Tiny pixels—eMagin is developing an invisible pixel micro-display

The better to see you with my dear. My grandmother told me, never stick anything smaller than your elbow in you eyes or ear. But grandma didn’t know about lasers, VR, and AR (she would ...

Siemens takes over management of PLM World, changes name to PLM Connection

The major conference for Siemens PLM users, PLM World was founded and managed in 2000 by the PLM World organization, an organization of user groups. This year’s show, PLM World 2018 will be managed by ...

HP releases nine new laptops and monitors

In one of the largest product launches outside of CES where Premium consumer products took center stage, HP is taking premium to the mainstream with its latest commercial product launch. The company has introduced three ...