Saw this on a few news outlets touting the amazing technology from Innovega & DARPA that puts an augmented reality display right on a contact lens on the eyeball. It’s important to get the details as that’s not actually the truth: What they’ve done is create a contact lens that allows a wearer to focus on “near to eye” displays, such as their own glasses with integrated projection displays.
For DARPA’s part, Innovega is working as part of the Soldier Centric Imaging via Computational Cameras (SCENICC) program, which aims to eliminate the intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capability gap at the individual soldier level.
You can get some good details in the video below. Still neat technology, but not quite what most people think from the headline.
I first heard of Quantum Dot Displays, or QDEF, a few months ago but wasn’t able to find out much information about how they magically improved the color of monitors. The few photos were easily attributed to bad photography or unfair comparisons, but over at GraphicSpeak Jon Peddie gets into the details of how it works.
Quantum dot phosphors are larger than a water molecule, but smaller than a virus. Embedded in a sheet of plastic these tiny phosphors convert blue light from a standard GaN LED into different wavelengths based upon their size. Larger dots emit longer wavelengths (red), while smaller dots emit shorter wavelengths (green). Blending together a mix of dot colors allows Nanosys to engineer a new spectrum of light. This enables LCD manufacturers to accurately match their LED backlight to their LCD color filters to achieve the best possible color and efficiency. The result is professional photo and cinema level color performance found in high-end monitors from Dolby, HP, and NEC.
The first QDEF monitors and televisions should start hitting shelves next year. Can’t wait to see them for myself.
One thing against passive 3D displays has always been the lowered resolution that comes from the interlaced design. Cutting the vertical resolution in half seems like it would be a bad thing, and has driven many people to use Active displays instead. A new study at DisplayMate however, says that human perception can’t see any difference.
The study finds that passive 3DTVs, which use an alternating raster scan approach, deliver a full-HD resolution 3D experience due to image fusion in human visual perception. The findings are significant as it elevates the impact of human perception of image quality as a measure of the 3D experience, as specs alone seem inadequate.
I have to disagree. Current 3D passive displays have significant artifacts, at least in my experience. Particularly when using them with data visualization tools and seeing 1-pixel wide lines (or even slightly bigger) turn into perforated lines as they cross the screen diagonally.
Personally, I can’t wait for 1920×2160 displays (double 1080 tall), where they can still interlace but leave you with 1080 lines in each eye.
St Jude Medical has a press release out about a new “Visualization Tool” designed for medical use in electrophysiology labs.
The system includes a 56 inch HD monitor that can display up to eight video images simultaneously with four times the resolution seen in standard 1080p consumer monitors. The VantageView System offers exceptional image quality with greater detail than the monitors typically used in EP labs today. In addition to enhanced image quality, the VantageView System can be seamlessly integrated with the EP lab’s multiple diagnostic and treatment systems, allowing clinicians to customize screen displays and more easily view and control patient and procedure information.
No doubt it’s impressive, and in typical medical fashion (suspected from the ceiling to reduce floor obstruction). But I would love to see some software with it for data fusion (combining data from multiple sources in a registered overlay setting). Oh well, maybe in the next rev.
Yesterday we told you about Samsung’s (SMD) impressive AMOLED Flexible Display, and now someone has posted a short video of the screen in action.
The display is impressive, but like the original poster I’m a bit concerned about the white lines in the display. Is that systematic of traditional trade-show wear & tear (faulty signal line), or is this display a combination of 6 or so displays cobbled together? I honestly don’t know.
Erica Ogg from CNET shows us a plasma display that is 1 centimeter thick that can wrap around a standard building column. I can easily see this device being used for advertising, or perhaps at conferences when your company’s booth gets a bad location and has a building column in the middle of it.
The display uses cameras to sense a person’s location and movements in reaction to elements on the screen. The camera on one side displays the person’s interactions on both sides of the column, making it appear see-through.
DisplayMate has revisited their Mobile Display “Shoot-out” and updated it with a huge amount of information, including the shown-above chromaticity diagrams indicating the resulting gamut. Much to my surprise, the Motorola Droid outperforms every other phone (including the iPhone), although the Samsung Galaxy has the widest support. In reality, the Galaxy’s support actually makes the visuals worse by oversaturating the colors.
Figure 1 shows the measured Color Gamut for each of the Smartphones along with the Standard Color Gamut in black. The outermost white curve is the limits of human color vision – the horseshoe is the pure spectral colors and the diagonal is the line of purples. A given display can only reproduce the colors that lie inside of the triangle formed by its primary colors. Highly saturated colors seldom occur in nature so the colors that are outside of the Standard Gamut are seldom needed and are unlikely to be noticed or missed in the overwhelming majority of real images. Note that consumer content does not include colors outside of the Standard Gamut, so a display with a wider Color Gamut cannot show colors that aren’t in the original and only produce inaccurate exaggerated on-screen colors. The dots in the center are the measured color of White for each of the Smartphones along with the D6500 Standard White, which is marked as a white circle.
What’s that you say, that 65″ TV you’ve got isn’t big enough? How about the new 100″ Diamond Vision OLED display from Mitsubishi? They claim they’ll begin selling it in 100″ and higher sizes next week (September 21st) for those of you with deep pockets.
The Diamond Vision is bright (1,200cd/m²) and has a good contrast (twice as better as LED, says Mitsubishi) – so it can be used in brightly-lit areas such as airports or stations. The OLEDs were jointly developed by Mitsubishi and Pioneer.
They do this my manufacturing small modules that are 234mm-square, and 128-pixels square. Unfortunately, each pixel is approximately 3mm in size, so you have to stand a ways back.
No idea what the price on this will be yet, but no doubt it will be reserved for the various Jumbotron-stadiums of the world.
TVLogic, a producer of high-end monitors and displays for broadcast and professional users, has just announced a pair of 15-inch OLED displays, a 2D and a 3D capable model. The specs aren’t bad:
100,000:1 Contrast Ratio
Ultra-Wide 180º viewing angle
3G/Dual-link – 4:4:4 and 1080p 60 compatible (optional)
2 x 3G/HD/SD-SDI inputs
2 x 3G/HD/SD-SDI outputs
1 x DVI input, 1 x HDMI input(w/HDCP)
Analog Component/Composite/S-Video/RGB inputs
Built-in waveform/vector scope
1:1 pixel mapping modes for SD/HD
Audio Disembedder & built-in Speaker (Audio phone jack output)
Supports TVLogic Color Calibration Utility for proper color alignment
Timecode display (VITC/LTC)
Support Dynamic UMD
Closed Caption : CEA-608/708
Embedded Audio Level Meter (16ch.)
The 3D version uses active shuttler glasses, and both TV’s operate at 1366×768, making them capable of displaying 720p.
A startup named ‘NTERA’ has announcement of a new technology called ‘Nanochromics’ that can create printable, flexible, interactive full-color displays that could ‘revolutionize dynamic comunication’ for several media.
“Printegration” — the process of integrating a display, a sensor, a battery or other electronic components by using successive layered printing steps – will take print to the next level of sophistication, he says. “Once you can add a dynamic element to what we have always considered static media, like newspapers or magazines, you’ve disrupted things and brought new life to them.” As an example, Giacoponello cites experiments in using printed-battery-powered displays in magazine advertising, which is already a reality. “You can see how devices like e-readers are changing the perception of what the nature of printed media is,” says Giacoponello.
They mention the potential of dynamically updating SmartCard badges, shipping labels, and newspapers. Read the full release after the break, and hit their site.
Saw this on a few news outlets touting the amazing technology from Innovega & DARPA that puts an augmented reality display right on a contact lens on the eyeball. It’s important to get the details as that’s not actually the truth: What they’ve done is create a contact lens that allows a wearer to focus on “near to eye” displays, such as their own glasses with integrated projection displays.
I first heard of Quantum Dot Displays, or QDEF, a few months ago but wasn’t able to find out much information about how they magically improved the color of monitors. The few photos were easily attributed to bad photography or unfair comparisons, but over at GraphicSpeak Jon Peddie gets into the details of how it works.
One thing against passive 3D displays has always been the lowered resolution that comes from the interlaced design. Cutting the vertical resolution in half seems like it would be a bad thing, and has driven many people to use Active displays instead. A new study at DisplayMate however, says that human perception can’t see any difference.
Yesterday
What’s that you say, that 65″ TV you’ve got isn’t big enough? How about the new 100″ Diamond Vision OLED display from Mitsubishi? They claim they’ll begin selling it in 100″ and higher sizes next week (September 21st) for those of you with deep pockets.
TVLogic, a producer of high-end monitors and displays for broadcast and professional users, has just announced a pair of 15-inch OLED displays, a 2D and a 3D capable model. The specs aren’t bad:
A startup named ‘NTERA’ has announcement of a new technology called ‘Nanochromics’ that can create printable, flexible, interactive full-color displays that could ‘revolutionize dynamic comunication’ for several media.
VizWorld.com 
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