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Apple's AR/VR Headset Display Specs: 5000+ Nits Brightness for HDR, 1.41-Inch Diagonal Display and More
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WWDC 2023 banner has been decoded. See it for yourself and you be the judge. 👀 🤫
If it is anything like my iMac, they will sometimes wake too bright in the evening. I can see folks like this when wearing them at night.
You assume it will be bulky.
If they indeed using Micro OLED, $3k is actually very "cheap". A Micro OLED TV costs as high as $80,000. Obviously we want the price to be lower, but current technology limitation still play a role.
Somebody pays attention. Also, front lenses are used mostly for AR to compete with sunlight. With AR, nits is irrelevant since you see through the actual reality and only the overlay texts or " tiny widgets" will be rendered graphically. And you do need to be able to read the texts. Without high nits, that's impossible on daylight.
Is this a sarcasm? How do you know if it's useful or not... yet?
hah, not gonna fall for that. Is it me or there were no v and r at all in that sentence.
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My guess as well, maybe peripheral vision will play into it.
Are you sure????
1. There's no "v" on the second line—and it looks awfully like the "v" is the second image is on the second line
2. That font just doesn't look right for some reason...
THIS IS THE PROVE THAT WE NEED THE XR NOW! Apparently you can only see those letters augmentedly.
micro LED TVs cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. There is no such thing as a micro OLED TV.
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You are right, there is no Micro OLED TV because Micro OLED is even more expensive than Micro LED - and it is designed to suit more tiny display rather than large tv screen.
Only a miniscule amount can be produced by Samsung technology at the moment, followed by LG next year. The silicon wafers needed to hold micro OLEDs aren’t available in mass quantities. It’s reported that one of the largest makers of these wafers, SK Hynix, only produces about 100,000 12-inch wafers per month, 30,000 of which it’s willing to dedicate to production of MicroOLED wafers. With most high-end TVs reaching between 65 and 85 inches, 30,000 12-inch wafers won't go very far.
Micro OLED puts tiny organic light emitting diodes on a silicon wafer. Doing so allows manufacturers to put thousands of them in a small group, drastically increasing the amount of pixels-per-inch of a display and boosting the brightness. Perfect for headset.
edit: due to the fact that it is extremally low yield, I would expect Apple to price much more than $3k until the production is able to satisfy demand. Maybe they will sell the first gen for $10k
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There is a $1000 headset with microLED panels coming out later this year, though they have about half the display panel area, if this rumor is correct. That headset also won't be standalone and won't have eye tracking and face tracking.You are right, there is no Micro OLED TV because Micro OLED is even more expensive than Micro LED - and it is designed to suit more tiny display rather than large tv screen.
Only a miniscule amount can be produced by Samsung technology at the moment, followed by LG next year. The silicon wafers needed to hold micro OLEDs aren’t available in mass quantities. It’s reported that one of the largest makers of these wafers, SK Hynix, only produces about 100,000 12-inch wafers per month, 30,000 of which it’s willing to dedicate to production of MicroOLED wafers. With most high-end TVs reaching between 65 and 85 inches, 30,000 12-inch wafers won't go very far.
Micro OLED puts tiny organic light emitting diodes on a silicon wafer. Doing so allows manufacturers to put thousands of them in a small group, drastically increasing the amount of pixels-per-inch of a display and boosting the brightness. Perfect for headset.
edit: due to the fact that it is extremally low yield, I would expect Apple to price much more than $3k until the production is able to satisfy demand. Maybe they will sell the first gen for $10k
But I'm sure Apple has significantly lower component costs than a startup.
MicroLED technology isn't really comparable to MicroOLED, in my understanding. MicroOLED is more expensive per area than a large microLED TV, but much cheaper per pixel.
I see a lot of people have no background in applied physics and optics.
They’ll be back for version 2 rumours immediately
Google had a cardboard VR device ( https://www.google.com/search?q=google+cardboard+vr&oq=google+cardboard+vr). With the display being 1.4 inch, some could make a cardboard add on for their apple watch.
