Monthly Archives: June 2019

Micro and mini LED have attracted over 170 companies

June 11, 2019, By Jennifer Colegrove Ph.D. Principal Analyst, Touch Display Research Inc.

Micro LED and mini LED display could disrupt the whole display industry due to their benefits of high brightness, wide color gamut, low power consumption, fast response time, etc.

In the newly published “Micro & mini LED Technologies, Supply Chain and Market Forecast 2019-2029 Report, Second Edition,” Touch Display Research Inc., a market research and consulting firm, analyzed all the methods to fabricate micro and mini LED displays along with their supply chains.

Figure 1. Micro & mini LED Technologies, Supply Chain and Market Forecast 2019-2029 Report

Source: Touch Display Research, June 2019

There are 18 methods to fabricate micro and mini LED displays, and we analyzed and compared them one by one in the report.  Our survey found that the micro and mini LED display are gaining momentum. The number of enterprises working on micro and mini LED has increased to over 170 currently from 120 last year.

BOM (Bill of Material) of micro and mini LED digital signage, direct –view displays, microdisplays are provided in the report. This report also provides the Global display market forecast with details by display technologies to 2029: LCD, OLED, EPD, Micro & Mini LED display, and other display technologies.

Thanks for reading,

Dr. Jennifer Colegrove and team

AWE 2019 Review

June 1st, 2019, By Jennifer Colegrove Ph.D. Principal Analyst, Touch Display Research Inc.

I just returned from AWE (Augmented World Expo) USA 2019 conference. This is my fourth year to attend the AWE conference. According to the keynote speaker—Mr. Ori Inbar, co-founder and CEO of AugmentedReality.org, this year the attendee number has reached over 7000, which is a record high in the 10 years history of AWE conference.

Figure 1: AWE USA 2019 Keynote

Photo source: Touch Display Research

The key takeaways are:

  1. Augmented reality and virtual reality is expanding in both enterprise and consumer market. Hundreds of enterprises are already using AR/VR and AI to help with saving cost. Consumer market is also gearing up with a dozen applications showing at this year’s AWE exhibition.
  2. Investment to the AR/VR and AI are accelerating.
  3. Human machine interface (HMI) still need improvement. We are still not there yet. The combination of several sensor fusions are needed. There are over 20 types of sensor technologies are used for augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

Figure 2:  Sensor technologies for AR VR and AI

  10 sensor technologies categories for AR VR AI
1 Camera-based gesture
2 Camera-based eye tracking
3 Ultrasound or radar-based gesture
4 Voice recognition
5 Photodiode sensor
6 Proximity touch screen
7 Motion sensor fusion
8 Short-range wireless sensor
9 Other touchless tech
10 Touch sensors and touch pad

Source: Sensors for Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence market 2016 Report. Touch Display Research Inc.

Touch Display Research forecasts that sensors for AR, VR, and AI market will reach $160 billion in 2022.

More analysis and review can be found in the “Touch and Emerging Display monthly report” report.

Thanks for reading,

Dr. Jennifer Colegrove and team