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2019; Wiley; Volume: 35; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/msid.1004

2637-496X

Jenny Donelan, Nicole Saunders,

E-commerce and Technology Innovations

Will they or won’t they? That’s often the question when it comes to predicting Apple’s next moves, and now one report has some in the industry wondering if the company might be collaborating with Samsung in a brand new way. According to the South Korean tech site ET News1 a 2019 iPhone model may include Samsung’s touch-integrated OLED technology Y-OCTA (Youm On-Cell Touch AMOLED). At present, iPhone models have separate touch-sensitive layers on top of their OLEDs, but Samsung’s Y-OCTA allows the touch sensor to be integrated directly into the the display for a thinner, lighter phone. Samsung has already supplied Y-OCTA to the Oppo Find X, which launched in 2018. ET News has a reputation for delivering reliable updates about Samsung (it was the first to report that Samsung would be using its Y-OCTA technology in its Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus models), but some argue that it has a less proven track record on breaking Apple news, and the company hasn’t re-sponded to the claims. We’ll report back on any developments. –Nicole Saunders At the end of 2018, E Ink Holdings, the company whose name is more or less synonymous with electronic ink technology, announced JustWrite, a film designed to offer what E Ink describes in its press announcement as “a natural writing experience without the use of a TFT backplane.” The extremely low (“near zero,” according to E Ink) latency provides a tactile sensation similar to writing on paper or whiteboard. The film needs only a stylus and relatively simple electronics to enable a digital writing surface. E Ink has not yet announced a shipping date for JustWrite. –Jenny Donelan E Ink's JustWrite film allows for a digital writing experience without a TFT backplane. Image: E Ink In early December, actor Tom Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie issued a PSA-style video online, voicing their opposition to the motion smoothing technology that is a default setting for most high-definition televisions on sale today. Motion smoothing, or video interpolation, is a feature that reduces motion blur by adding frames in between the 24 frames-per-second at which most movie and some TV content is shot. Reducing motion blur would seem to be a desirable feature, and it can be if you’re watching fast-moving sports. But if you’re watching a movie or TV drama, the lack of blur creates an effect that feels otherworldly to many viewers. It is sometimes called “the soap opera effect” and will also be familiar to anyone who watched early BBC dramas such as Doctor Who or Masterpiece Theatre, which were shot in less expensive video rather than film. Cruise and McQuarrie make the argument that films should be watched at 24 frames-per-second as their makers intended and that TV manufacturers should not offer video interpolation as a default. McQuarrie also suggests that it is difficult to turn off the feature because it is nested in menus and referred to by different names depending on the manufacturer. Cruise and McQuarrie do, however, note in their video that a solution can be obtained through “a quick internet search.” Robert Zohn, the founder and president of Value Electronics, a home theater, audio, and video dealer based in Scarsdale, NY, says that motion smoothing actually is not hard to turn off and that he doesn’t think manufacturers are trying to make it difficult for users to do so. Still, he is not a fan of the feature: “It has a little benefit in that it makes the images smoother, but the only time you might care about it is if you want to see a hockey puck or something like that without the blur,” he says. Some people don’t notice the video interpolation and, apparently, some even like the look. The moral of this story is that if you received a new TV for the holidays, it might be worth a few minutes of your time to look through your owner’s manual, google the set online, and experiment with the settings to find the output you prefer—whatever that may be. –Jenny Donelan The November issue includes five papers that comprise the second half of the special section ‘Best of International Display Workshops 2017’ while four papers from ‘Best of International Conference on Display Technology 2018’ and one regularly contributed paper were published in the December issue. The International Conference on Display Technology (ICDT), which is sponsored by SID, takes place every April in China. 2018 was the second year for ICDT and the first year in which ICDT papers have been included in special issues of the Journal of the Society for Information Display. To improve the author and reader experience, the Journal of the Society for Information Display, published by Wiley, will introduce a new page design for its January 2019 issue. The redesign will help reduce the time from author submission to paper publication. Hence, authors can publish articles more quickly. For readers, the redesign will optimize aesthetics and readability. Enjoy! Novel MRI hyper-realistic head-up display system for patient comfort | Takashi Sasaki, et al. | DOI: 10.1002/jsid.734 To improve patient comfort during an examination, a head-up display (HUD) based on the head dome projector (HDP) is employed in a commercial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, which is called “MR theater.” The HDP consists of a dome-shaped screen and a mobile LED projector with an ultrawide projection lens, which generates non-flat plane images and provides a superior hyperrealistic impression. Such an MRI-HUD system eliminates the feeling of limited space in the MRI gantry during exams. Full-color multi-plane optical see-through head-mounted display for augmented reality applications | Shuxin Liu, et al. | DOI: 10.1002/jsid.739 In this paper, a prototype of a see-through head-mounted display (HMD) for augmented reality applications is proposed. Two sets of red, green, and blue light-emitting diodes are used to illuminate two digital micromirror devices (DMDs), which generate timesequential images for both eyes. To provide the 3D images without accommodation—vergence conflict, correct depth information is needed, which is achieved by stacking polymer-stabilized liquid crystal films at different depths. Jiun-Haw Lee Editor-in-Chief