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  Today's Top Stories - 5.12.17
 
 
 
1. Home monitors are getting smarter and creepier
By Rachel Metz, MIT Technology Review
Startup Lighthouse’s home assistant-slash-monitor can tell you who’s in your house, and what they’re doing. More»
Why This Matters: This story has good detail on how this device uses 3D cameras to spy on everyone in your house every second of every day. Because that’s just what we need. –Cynthia Wisehart
 
2. Analysis: AR and VR headset market to grow ten fold
Via Installation
New device launches, an expanding array of content for consumer and enterprise users, and lower price points will propel total VR and AR headset device shipments ten-fold from the 10.1 million units supplied in 2016 to around 100 million units in 2021. More»
Why This Matters: This, from the International Data Corporation, predicts that enterprise users will in part drive the growth—not just entertainment. –Cynthia Wisehart
 
3. Register for Webcast: Advances in Interactive Direct View LED
What are some of the key considerations for an LED videowall touch solution? What are the pros and cons of various touch surfaces, including the newest "Pliable LED Touch Surface" material? What are the considerations for sales, installation and service? Join us as we answer these and other questions about the latest trend in direct view LED technology. More»
Why This Matters: If you saw the new Planar Touch LED at NAB, you know why this is an important webcast to attend. In particular, I found the surface application very interesting. –Cynthia Wisehart
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
4. The biggest announcements from Microsoft’s Build event (Chris Welch, The Verge)
 
5. Report: ban on laptops in planes may expand to Europe (Joe Mullin, Ars Technica)
 
6. Microsoft wants you to use a pen everywhere in Windows (Ashley Carman, The Verge)
 
7. Register for Webcast: Understanding Microphone Arrays and Beamforming
 
8. Nominate your product for Best of InfoComm 2017
 
9. Available for preorder: Tesla releases details of solar roof tiles; cheaper than regular tiles (calculator included) (Fred Lambert, Electrek)
 
10. From TheWire@SVConline: Kevin Barlow to Draper
 
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