Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional was launched within the US in April, and the corporate’s first combined actuality headset is now accessible in a handful of nations, excluding India. Reviews counsel that the corporate is already engaged on a extra inexpensive model of the Imaginative and prescient Professional headset, which is priced at a watch watering $3,499 (roughly Rs. 2.95 lakh) within the US. A publication has now revealed one of many elements Apple would possibly go for as a way to ship a cheap model of the combined actuality headset.
Apple May Use Samsung’s Show Know-how for Extra Inexpensive Imaginative and prescient Professional Headset
A report in The Elec, citing business sources, states that Apple is trying to swap to a inexpensive show know-how that has a excessive pixel density, for the corporate’s subsequent combined actuality headset. Apple is anticipated to launch a headset that’s extra inexpensive than the first-generation Imaginative and prescient Professional mannequin, and is reportedly contemplating two show applied sciences for the system.
Apple is anticipating to equip the purported headset with a show panel that has a pixel density of 1,500ppi, as per the report. That is simply over half of the pixel density of the one used on the Imaginative and prescient Professional (3,391ppi).
The extra inexpensive panel would nonetheless have a significantly increased pixel density than most show panels used on smartphones right this moment. In accordance with the publication, Apple may use a know-how known as White OLED with Color Filter (W-OLED+CF) which is a inexpensive model of the OLED on Silicon (OLEDoS) panel used on the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.
The color filter part can be used to kind the colors from the White OLED board, as per the report. Whereas the Imaginative and prescient Professional makes use of an OLEDoS panel that contains a silicon plate, the extra inexpensive headset would wish to make use of a panel that’s constructed utilizing a glass plate.
Apple is reportedly making an attempt to design the color filter part in such a means that it’s situated on the thin-film encapsulation of a single glass sheet, as a substitute of utilizing a second sheet and growing the general thickness of the panel.
Samsung is anticipated to be the provider for these W-OLED+CF panels with a excessive pixel density, based mostly on Apple’s specs, based on the report. Earlier this week, TF Securities Worldwide analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claimed that Apple’s inexpensive model of the Imaginative and prescient Professional can be delayed past 2027, which implies that we’d not be taught extra in regards to the purported headset for a number of months.
