Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional was launched within the US in April, and the corporate’s first blended actuality headset is now out there in a handful of nations, excluding India. Studies recommend that the corporate is already engaged on a extra reasonably priced model of the Imaginative and prescient Professional headset, which is priced at an eye fixed watering $3,499 (roughly Rs. 2.95 lakh) within the US. A publication has now revealed one of many elements Apple may go for with the intention to ship a cheap model of the blended actuality headset.
Apple May Use Samsung’s Show Expertise for Extra Inexpensive Imaginative and prescient Professional Headset
A report in The Elec, citing trade sources, states that Apple is seeking to change to a inexpensive show know-how that has a excessive pixel density, for the corporate’s subsequent blended actuality headset. Apple is anticipated to launch a headset that’s extra reasonably priced than the first-generation Imaginative and prescient Professional mannequin, and is reportedly contemplating two show applied sciences for the machine.
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 reasonably priced panel would nonetheless have a significantly larger pixel density than most show panels used on smartphones as we speak. Based on the publication, Apple might 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 reasonably priced headset would wish 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 manner 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 anticipated 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 Worldwide analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claimed that Apple’s reasonably priced model of the Imaginative and prescient Professional can be delayed past 2027, which signifies that we would not be taught extra concerning the purported headset for a number of months.