A cheaper Vision Pro could use bigger displays with half the pixel density
A cheaper Vision Pro could use bigger OLED panels than the current Apple headset, with a lower display resolution and pixel count to help bring the price down.
Apple has reportedly tasked Samsung Display and LG Display with developing OLEDoS panels for the Vision Pro successors, ranging from 2.0 to 2.1 inches in size.
The larger panels are rumored to have about half the display resolution of the current Vision Pro, according to the Korean website Elec.
A cheap Vision Pro might use lower-resolution displays
The panels should be somewhere around 2600×2300, resulting in a pixel density of around 1,700 pixels per inch (PPI). By contrast, Sony’s micro-OLEDoS panels for the current Vision Pro are about 1.42 inches diagonally each, providing more than 4K resolution per eye (3660×3200), resulting in a pixel density of nearly 3,400 PPI.
In other words, the cheaper Vision Pro might sport about two-thirds the resolution of the current headset at around half the pixel density.
Sony is the sole supplier of these panels for the Vision Pro. Due to its limited capacity, however, Apple wants to diversify its supply chain for OLEDoS panels. Sony’s OLEDoS panels leverage wOLED+CF technology which combines a white OLED display with color filters, contributing to the headset’s high price.
What is OLEDoS technology? How does it work?
OLEDoS refers to OLED on Silicon, where the pixels are placed on a silicon wafer instead of the traditional low-temperature polycrystalline silicon glass substrate. It allows for pixel densities exceeding 4,000 pixels PPI, a high contrast ratio, wide color gamut, fast response time, drastically reduced motion blur, etc.
High resolution, where your eye cannot distinguish between the individual pixels, is a crucial feature of near-eye displays used in head-worn devices.
Aside from lower-resolution screens, the cheaper Vision Pro is also rumored to use iPhone-level chips, fewer cameras and tether to an iPhone or Mac. Such a device might still end up costing between $1500 and $2500 compared with $500 Meta headsets. A more affordable Vision Pro is said to launch by the end of next year.
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