Samsung shows small 4k OLED screen for VR glasses – update

Samsung has shown a prototype of an OLED screen for VR glasses with a diagonal of 2.43″ and a resolution of 1920×2160 pixels per eye at a trade fair in the American city of Los Angeles. The screen with 1200 pixels per inch should sharpen VR experiences. to make.

Source: oled info

The screen can be up to a brightness of up to 250cd/m2, OLED information reports based on Samsung’s booth at the SID 2018 conference in Los Angeles. The screen, together 3.7″ for both eyes and equipped with a resolution of 3840×2160 pixels, is slightly less sharp than what LG and Google showed at the same fair and announced earlier: that is a 4.3″ OLED screen with 3840×4800 pixels, good for 1443 pixels per inch.

The sharper OLED screens can both handle 120Hz, making them suitable for use in VR glasses. The screens should make VR experiences sharper, with the hope that their sharpness will reduce or eliminate the screen door effect, where users see pixels in the image. Pixels are still visible with all current VR glasses.

Before the screens are placed in VR glasses, there must be hardware that can constantly produce images at that resolution and at that refresh rate. It is unknown if and when the screens will appear in VR glasses.

Update, Thursday: This article first stated that the screen was 2.43″ with a resolution of 3840×2160 pixels. As tweaker Balance points out, that couldn’t be right. It concerns two screens of 2.43 each, together 3.7″.