A future Vision Pro could have much brighter screens via tandem OLED tech
Apple could equip future Vision Pro headsets with tandem OLED technology, resulting in much brighter screens and better power efficiency.
The Vision Pro incorporates two micro-OLED displays that provide more than 4K resolution per eye, but some early adopters complained that the passthrough video felt a bit dimmer than they expected. The headset adjusts the brightness automatically to match ambient lighting, but there’s no way to force full brightness.
However, that could change as Apple is rumored to leverage the tandem OLED technology that has been tried and tested on the M4 iPad Pro for a future Vision Pro. Korean publication Sisa Journal reports that LG and Samsung have managed to create prototypes of micro-OLED displays based on tandem OLED technology.
Apple testing tandem OLED tech for a future Vision Pro
This technology will not appear in a budget Vision Pro that Apple is said to be developing. That device is expected to have less sophisticated hardware, like iPhone-class, instead of Mac-class chips and lower-resolution screens, to bring the price down. However, Apple is also understood to be developing a high-end version of the second-generation Vision Pro with even better technical specifications than the current Vision Pro. In other words, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that tandem OLED, a premium technology, will appear in a high-end Vision Pro.
Tandem OLED is precisely what it sounds like. Instead of a single OLED panel, two panels are stacked together, increasing brightness and better power efficiency. On the iPad Pro, tandem OLED technology brings “phenomenal full-screen brightness,” according to Apple’s press release.
The M4 iPad Pro can have 1000 nits of full-screen brightness for SDR/HDR and 1600 nits peak for HDR. “Specular highlights in photos and video appear even brighter, and there’s more detail in shadows and low light than ever before on iPad—all while delivering even more responsiveness to content in motion,” Apple explains. We’ve found a 2021 rumor claiming future iPad Pros and MacBook Pros would adopt two-stack OLED displays, so it seems like tandem OLED technology will eventually rolled out across all Pro-branded iPhones, iPads and Macs.
Non-Pro devices like the iPad Air should adopt a single-stack OLED, according to Omdia researchers, but the first OLED-based Air may not arrive until 2028.
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