Speaker: Steve Marsland, McLaughlin Consulting Group
Title: Review of Head-Mounted Display for Personal Application
Abstract: Personal Viewers (Head-Mounted Displays) reached cost-competitiveness with embedded displays in 2006 and consumer applications for such displays are beginning to emerge and proliferate. The popularity of MP3 players like iPod with video capability, and the proliferation of similar devices (iPhone from Apple, etc.) means that “pocket video” is now increasingly available to consumers. Personal Viewers enable comfortable viewing via pocket video platforms. And pocket video is not the only emerging consumer application – five other applications are now appearing. Use of Personal Viewers continues to increase in its traditional military, corporate and prosumer markets as well. Yet important issues and hurdles remain for the industry. Come and learn the current market status, and try on some personal viewers for yourself.
Speaker Background: Steve Marsland is a Senior Partner at McLaughling Consulting Group in Menlo Park, CA which specializes in display and emerging technologies. MCG is the leading analyst for personal viewers. MCG was selected by the United States Display Consortium to do its 2002 study on Human Factors for Near-Eye displays. Mr. Marsland has published a report on the Personal Viewer industry each year since 2004. MCG is presently spearheading an effort to form a global industry association for Personal Viewers. Mr. Marsland has also written on the home entertainment, microdisplay, and optical films markets for display products for MCG and maintains MCG’s proprietary Projector Cost and Lumens Model. Mr. Marsland holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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