Apple Could Use Samsung’s Display Technology for More Affordable Vision Pro Headset
A report in The Elec, citing trade sources, states that Apple is trying to swap to a cheaper show know-how that has a excessive pixel density, for the corporate’s subsequent blended actuality headset. Apple is predicted to launch a headset that’s extra reasonably priced than the first-generation Vision Pro mannequin, and is reportedly contemplating two show applied sciences for the gadget.
Apple is anticipating to equip the purported headset with a show panel that has a pixel density of 1,500ppi, as per the report. This is simply over half of the pixel density of the one used on the Vision Pro (3,391ppi).
The extra reasonably priced panel would nonetheless have a significantly larger pixel density than most show panels used on smartphones right now. According to the publication, Apple might use a know-how referred to as White OLED with Colour Filter (W-OLED+CF) which is a cheaper model of the OLED on Silicon (OLEDoS) panel used on the Apple Vision Pro.
The color filter part can be used to kind the colors from the White OLED board, as per the report. While the Vision Pro makes use of an OLEDoS panel that contains a silicon plate, the extra reasonably priced headset would want to make use of a panel that’s constructed utilizing a glass plate.
Apple is reportedly trying to design the color filter part in such a means that it’s positioned on the thin-film encapsulation of a single glass sheet, as an alternative of utilizing a second sheet and rising the general thickness of the panel.
Samsung is predicted to be the provider for these W-OLED+CF panels with a excessive pixel density, primarily based on Apple’s specs, in line with the report. Earlier this week, TF Securities International analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claimed that Apple’s reasonably priced model of the Vision Pro can be delayed past 2027, which signifies that we would not be taught extra concerning the purported headset for a number of months.
