Samsung has a new 1200 PPI AMOLED display for virtual reality
While Samsung hasn’t said anything about a standalone Gear VR that would work with a built-in display instead of requiring a smartphone’s screen, the company has certainly been very active in making AMOLED displays for virtual reality. At the SID 2018 exhibition last week, Samsung unveiled its most pixel-dense VR display yet: a 2.43-inch panel with a resolution of 3840×2160 pixels, which amounts to a pixel density of 1200 PPI.
Standalone Gear VR headset in the works?
Samsung had three different panels on display (pun unintended) at the show. The other two were 3.5-inch and 3.2-inch panels with 1440×1600 and 1824×1824 resolution, equating to pixel densities of 616 PPI and 806 PPI. Seeing those panels up there makes us wonder if Samsung is working on standalone virtual reality headsets across different price ranges. It’s just speculation on our part, and the company could simply be showing off its display technology as display makers are wont to do, but Gear VR (or Galaxy VR, as Gear-branded devices are expected to be dependent on a smartphone or tablet) headsets with different specs and prices would be a nice way to get things going for its standalone headset.
But, again, this could just be Samsung showcasing its advances in VR displays, though the 1200 PPI panel seems to have reached that density by reducing the display size while increasing the resolution. That makes it less impressive than the 4.3-inch VR OLED display that LG has introduced with a pixel density of 1443 PPI, which was also showcased at the same event.
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So I can see 2.4″ working because you have a single display *per eye*. Now the LG one is 4.3″, so is to big for a single eye, unless you are really going to add a few pounds on your nose. Having a single display for both eyes is trouble enough, because for each user you have to adjust the distance between the eyes in the rendering path. And also the distortion is different. You can see all these artifacts in the available single display VR headsets (like gear VR). The vive pro has 2(!) independent displays, which can let… Read more »
I think it will probably not be a standalone headset as some rumours suggest that the S10 will be having a higher resolution display. And with their new 7nm exynose chipset (to be released with the S10) it will be possible to push those pixels in VR.
1200ppi for S10? Dude is from future
1200-1443 ppi would be perfect for VR but would also require a great GPU capable of pushing such display resolution and power consumption is likely to be very high… likely to come as a stand alone VR headset