DisplaySearch: 142 million pico-projectors will be sold in 2018DisplaySearch has released a new report (Pocket Projector Technology and Market Forecast Report) in which they forecast that pico-projector shipments will grow from 500,000 units in 2009 ($117 million in revenue) to 142 million units in 2018 ($13.9 billion).
DisplaySearch says that progress in brightness and battery life and a cheaper price will drive the growth. Shipments of embedded projectors will surpass those of stand-alone units by 2014. DisplaySearch further predicts that DLP and LCoS field sequential technologies will take the lead in shipments in 2010. Laser-beam-steering (or scanning MEMS) will be the fastest growing technology. Via Displaysearch
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these guys are crazy
Displaysearch has a HORRIBLE track record at forecasting. They love to pump technologies so people keep buying their crummy reports. Embedded picoprojectors will not offer more than 10 lumens for many many years, due to battery life issues. And 10 lumens requires complete darkness to look decent. This forecast is worthless.
Agreed above
The another reason behind is the heat dissipation problem for embedded application, e.g. mobile phone. The tradeoff between brightness, power consumption and heat dissipation are quite difficult to achieve.