Infinity O display?

A fair amount of rumoring about a new kind of display from Samsung.

I have no idea what it might be, but the basics of the rumors is that there's a bezel-free display with a hole cut in the corner for the camera. (I'd regard that a lot of buzz-building for no particularly good purpose.)

It is curious that Microvision's PicoP touts "infinite focus"

Who knows... something to watch.

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FCC Testing 3 new Samsung Phones

Infinity-O display assembly possibly revealed in new leak

Samsung teased a device with such a display panel even before it revealed the Infinity-O. It teased the Galaxy A8s during the launch event for the Galaxy A9s and Galaxy A6s in China. The teaser showed that the display doesn’t have a notch. It was mentioned in subsequent reports that the display would actually have a hole to accommodate the front camera.

The display silhouette that Samsung revealed at SDC 2018 essentially confirmed that to be the case. It has developed a new type of display with a hole in the corner for the front camera. This would allow the company to maximize screen real estate even on devices that don’t get the New Infinity display (New Infinity is the all-screen version with an under-screen camera). That would likely be reserved for the premium handsets.

New Video From MicroVision - Interactive Projection

Do people want an interactive touch screen on a wall or table that's focus free? That supports gesture controls?

This is a 3D "Time of flight sensing" -- in an engine that is going to be made by ST Microelectronics. 

Time of Flight sensing - Apple, STM.

I suspect the answer is yes.

"Here's a quick tutorial on how our interactive display engine with time of flight 3D sensing works."

RoBoHon - Screen Anywhere.

Infinite focus, screen anywhere.

Yes -- anywhere. (almost.)

SOURCE - Robogarage

When Devices Won't Matter

From Yahoo News / Digital Trends

If you want to be able to LOOK at something -- and not notice the device that produces what you're looking at --- you need a tiny projector with infinite focus.  

There isn't any other way.

If you're an investor --- holding stock in the company with the best tiny projectors and the only ones with infinite focus -- that's where you want to be. If that same company also has the best 3D scanning technology... that's even better.

With 5G ultra high speed connectivity coming -- most of the processing power that we'd want to use may be elsewhere.


"In the foreseeable future, we likely won’t even notice our devices. That’s the vision Google CEO Sundar Pichai cast in the search giant’s annual shareholder letter."

Today we still think of devices first. Most of use smartphones and some use tablets. We are certainly aware of our desktop and laptop computers. But imagine if all those devices disappeared. Not that computers and the devices are really going away, but we won’t be as aware of them. As we speak, move, gesture, look, and — at some time not so far off — even think, the world of future computers will work with us.

As Google’s Pichai states the shift, “Looking to the future, the next big step will be for the very concept of the ‘device’ to fade away.” And Google is not alone, but joined in readying for the transition from device-centrism to AI by virtually every major player in what is still somewhat quaintly referred to as the “computer business.” Facebook’s smart assistant “M,” Microsoft’s renewed focus on AI, and Amazon’s home hub manager, Alexa, are examples cited in USA Today’s coverage of the Google CEO’s message.