NMM multimedia middleware

Motama’s key technology – called Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware (NMM) – provides a ground-breaking new software solution for networked multimedia systems, spanning from embedded and mobile devices, to PCs, to large-scale computing clusters. NMM is available as commercial or Open Source version.

Our middleware forms the basis of our own products and is licensed to world leaders in the areas of home entertainment, networking, mobility, and content processing and distribution.

via Motama GmbH.

Maxivista Multi Monitor – Dual Monitor – KVM switch

MaxiVista turns any spare Desktop, Laptop or Netbook PC into a second monitor for your primary computer. No extra multi monitor hardware is required. Simply extend program windows across multiple screens as if it were one big monitor. Increase your productivity by using a multiple monitor software.

via Multi Monitor – Dual Monitor – KVM switch.

This works by installing virtual VGA drivers on all the PC’s involved.

Projector keystoning software

To do this there are a few options:

Pixelwarp Edgeblend and Geometric Correction Software.

Sol7 Immersaview

Nvidia NVKeystone but it’s been discontinued since june 2 2009 🙁

VPT 5.1 video projection tool is free and very capable, but I haven’t been able to take a vga / dvi / hdmi output as a live input into it yet so it needs videos in a video directory to throw its layers on allthough this howto is a launching point.

MXWendler FXServer was designed for theatres and stages.

Difference Between LED Backlit and Full LED TVs and monitors

Summary:

1. LED Backlit TVs only have LEDs on the edges, while Full LED TVs have LEDs spread out all over the screen
2. Full LED TVs have more LEDs than LED Backlit TVs
3. Full LED TVs have a more even lighting than LED Backlit TVs
4. Full LED TVs can attain better contrast than LED Backlit TVs
5. Full LED TVs can be slightly thicker than LED Backlit TVs

Difference Between LED Backlit and Full LED TV | Difference Between | LED Backlit vs Full LED TV.

 

NB Backlit LED = Edge LED

PrimaSee – translucent displays

Making its first debut into the retail marketplace, STRATACACHE’s PrimaSee™ is a translucent digital display that showcases high-definition, dynamic video advertisements embedded within a glass panel. These see-through promotional videos correspond with products visible in the backdrop to convey point-of-purchase brand messages. Using an embedded media player, content can easily be updated based on current promotions.

via PrimaSee.

Seamlessly joining multiple projectors

This isn’t so easy to do. There are a few different options:

1) The software route

Open Source VVVV

vvvv is a graphical programming environment for easy prototyping and development. It is designed to facilitate the handling of large media environments with physical interfaces, real-time motion graphics, audio and video that can interact with many users simultaneously.

C-nario

C-nario’s state of the art seamless projection application breaks down the barriers of traditional wall casting and provides endless possibilities for multiple, high definition displays projection on any shape, any size, 360 degrees surface. Now you can enjoy seamless projection with digital signage added values.

Sol7

Sol7 corrects imagery for projecting:
* onto non-planar screen shapes such as curved screen displays
* from unusual angles
* a seamless image from multiple projectors
* any combination of the above to achieve an immersive visual display

Sol7 is a versatile software tool that can be used to:
* align real-time content onto curved and non-planar screens
* align movies onto curved and non-planar screens
* edge blend multiple projectors
* align and edge blend multi-projector displays
* align and edge blend stereoscopic displays
* align and edge blend curved screen displays
* align unique display systems

Dataton Watchout

This doesn’t just meld the displays in all kinds of funny angles, it also supports loads of different feeds: live video, file kinds, different sound files, etc.

Scalable Display

Scalable Display Technologies makes trailblazing software used to calibrate multiple projector digital displays. Our auto-calibration system brings simplicity, reliability and brilliant high-resolution to displays across many industries and applications.

We help partners in a wide variety of markets enable Scalable auto-calibration in their products for cost-effective, eye-catching results.

2. The hardware route

The Axon Media Server

Barco / Folsom BlendPRO

Mersive Sol Harmony

Toshiba to launch no-glasses 3D TV this year

oshiba will offer a 12-inch model and a 20-inch model. They’ll cost around ¥120,000 (US$1,430) and ¥240,000 respectively. Toshiba didn’t announce launch or pricing plans for markets outside of Japan.

Behind this lens screen is a custom-developed LCD (liquid crystal display) panel. Each screen has 8.29 million pixels — four times the number of pixels in a conventional “full HD” television — organized into groups of nine pixels of each color. The nine lenses split light from each bank of pixels and send it to nine points in front of the TV

If the viewer sits in one of these sweet spots they get the 3D illusion.

The nine spots should enable several family members to watch a 3D image at the same time.

The set-up means that despite the large number of pixels in the screen, the resulting picture seen in each of the nine spots is equivalent to a 720p high-definition image, said Toshiba.

via Toshiba to launch no-glasses 3D TV this year in Japan – toshiba, consumer electronics, CEATEC – Good Gear Guide.

Haptic feedback by electrically charging a transparent film

These “E-Sense” films developed by Senseg and Toshiba can be placed anywhere, including on a touchscreen and by charging the area the finger is on differently, you can create different sensations, such as wood, stone, unevenness, etc. This is called electrotactile feedback.

Electrotactile Arrays for Texture and Pressure Feedback During Robotic Teleoperation | Hizook.

Witid concept monitor rethinks the dual screen

Having more than one monitor is undoubtedly cool, but, if you play video games or watch movies, then you know that the gap between displays — formed by the casing that borders each monitor — can really take you out of what you’re watching, as there’s an inch or two of nothing between the pictures.

Thought up by design firm Witid out of Beijing, China, this monitor eliminates that unsightly gap between two displays by extending the screens all the way to the edges. “But DVICE,” you cry, “isn’t that just a widescreen?” Why yes, but an extra wide one. Also, the second half of the monitor can be swung around the back of the unit, so two people on opposite sides of the display can view images from one computer — kind of like a cubicle buddy system.

The monitor is still just a concept at this time, and may stay that way if it tries to use traditional LCD technology, which might have some shielding issues without a proper enclosure.

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