Samsung is developing bright MicroLED on Silicon displays for AR headsets - GSMArena.com news - GSMArena.com

OLED displays person been utilized successful VR headsets for years present owed to their accelerated effect times and heavy blacks. The Oculus Rift CV1 utilized Samsung-made OLED displays, arsenic did immoderate of the aboriginal models, Samsung’s ain Gear VR utilized OLED (part of the Galaxy telephone that powered those headsets) arsenic good arsenic the dedicated Odyssey VR headsets.

However, the person of the Samsung Display group, Kim Min-woo, said that the institution is processing adjacent gen tech for AR displays that volition beryllium based connected MicroLED, reports The Elec. Specifically, the exertion is called MicroLED connected Silicon (shortened to “LEDoS”). Current displays are typically made connected a solid substrate alternatively than silicon.

The quality betwixt AR (Augmented Reality) and VR (Virtual Reality) is that AR needs brighter displays due to the fact that they are competing with ambient lighting - it integrates virtual objects into the existent satellite and to bash it well, it needs to lucifer the brightness of the airy astir the user. VR displays adjacent you disconnected from the world, truthful little brightness tin bash the job.

The semipermanent extremity for Samsung is to make LEDoS displays with 6,600 pixels per inch (PPI). Kim says that the minimum for AR displays is 5,000ppi and the region betwixt pixels indispensable beryllium 5 micrometers oregon smaller. The red, greenish and bluish sub-pixels should beryllium 3 micrometers oregon smaller.

For comparison, the archetypal Odyssey VR headset had 615ppi displays and Samsung developed exertion to combat the surface doorway effect and advertised a “perceived” pixel density of 1,233ppi (even though the solution of the show remained the same). This was years ago, but it goes to amusement that exertion needs to advancement by leaps and bounds for a existent to beingness image.

Kim Min-woo speaking astatine the MicroLED Display Workshop manufacture lawsuit successful Seoul

In summation to LEDoS, Samsung Display is besides processing OLED connected Silicon (OLEDoS) panels, according to Kim. MicroLEDs should beryllium brighter and therefor amended suited for AR applications, though.

Meta is moving connected prototype headsets and is trying to propulsion the brightness arsenic precocious arsenic 10,000 nits arsenic that is what is needed to render realistic outdoor scenes. That is 5 to 10 times brighter than adjacent the champion smartphone displays connected the market. The latest Meta Quest Pro uses LCDs with section dimming (500 LEDs for each backlight), again successful bid to execute higher brightness.

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