In August, tech giants Meta and Apple announced plans for smart glasses, making AI glasses a hot topic in the stock market and causing the prices of related stocks to go up. The rise of AI glasses is also boosting their future development. However, currently, smart glasses have some big problems to solve. The hardware and software are not advanced enough, making it unclear how they can be used in real life, resulting in slow market growth. AI technology alone may not be sufficient to fix these issues. One key part of smart glasses is the near-eye display system, which aff...

Report: LG Display Rumored to Enter Apple’s Micro OLED Supply Chain, Challenging Sony’s Sole Supplier Status In an unexpected turn of events, South Korean panel maker LG Display (LGD) is rumored to be entering Apple’s Micro OLED supply chain, breaking the monopoly held by Japanese factory SONY as the sole supplier of Vision Pro. According to China Media Jiwei.com, industry sources have revealed that LGD has secured a spot in the Micro OLED supply chain for Apple’s Vision Pro. This news comes as other ma...

GRENOBLE, France, July 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MICROOLED, the leading manufacturer of high resolution, low power consumption OLED microdisplays, announces a €21 million fundraising led Jolt Capital, a specialist in private equity for responsible deeptech companies, with the French sovereign wealth fund Bpifrance via its Innovation Defense vehicle, alongside both historical investors, Cipio Partners and Ventech. Smartphones and tablet PCs can be used as gateways to augmented reality, but smart glasses will soon become the dominant wearable equipm...

Jun. 29, 2022 ---- According to TrendForce's latest Micro LED research report, among many Micro LED display applications, Micro LED microdisplays will be the next new high-end product following on the heels of large-scale display development. The market value of Micro LED AR smart glasses display chips is forecast to reach US$41 million by 2026. The reason for such a significant growth in market value in just one year from 2025 to 2026 is primarily due to the gradual maturity of technologies such as red chips, laser transfer, wafer bonding and full-colorization,...

On June 16, the South Korean media reported that the country’s semiconductor equipment manufacturer APS Holdings is creating a production line of fine metal masks (FMM) for ultra-high definition displays. The resultant products will be installed in the Micro OLED displays of AR and VR headsets. FMM is a major consumable in the OLED deposition process; it is mainly used for deposition of RGB organic materials and pixel structure fabrication during OLED manufacturing. Credit: APS Holdings APS Holdings’ subsidiary APS Material...

On December 14, HYC Technology, on its investor interaction platform, revealed that its Micro OLED testing device has been verified by the downstream client Sony and other end clients. Currently, the company is engaging in initial trial production as requested by downstream customers for subsequent mass production. HYC specifies that Micro OLED has extremely high resolution that is optimal for AR/VR devices engineered with near-eye display technology, which is likely to be widely applied to relevant products. HYC, whose full name is “Suzhou HYC Te...

According to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the tech giant plans to announce its first AR headset with Sony’s 4K Micro OLED display in 4Q22. The AR headset will allegedly have computing power comparable to the Mac products, and can be directly operated without smartphone binding. Sony’s ECX339A Micro OLED Display As revealed by previous news and patent announcements, Apple has long focused on the research and development of AR technologies, while rumors about the company’s AR strategies and devices have never stopped spreading. Last...

Recently, VR company EM3 (Beijing Yilian Technology Co., Ltd.) announced a prototype of ultra-slim VR glasses with the code name ETHER, which is only 6.8mm thick and weighs no more than 35g. The prototype, adopting split design, is powered by a Micro OLED monitor and features full-color display, 2.5k single-eye resolution, 90° field of view (FOV), and inter-pupillary distance adjustment. Reportedly, the prototype’s upcoming iteration version is likely to provide an FOV of up to 110° with unchanged size. Image source: PAIXIN.com The...

Technological advances have given rise to numerous ultra-advanced display technologies that shine in different fields. Micro OLED, known as a fusion of semiconductor and OLED technologies, allows displays to be thinner and more energy saving. Particularly, the application of Micro OLED in AR/VR is highly promising, but what is the difference between this novel technology and the aforementioned Micro LED? Before comparing the two technologies, we should first know what exactly OLED is and whether Micro OLEDs are simply miniatures of OLEDs. OLE...

As LCD technologies advance, you may often hear about words like LCD, LED, OLED, as well as popular display techniques using Micro LEDs, Mini LEDs, and Micro OLEDs. Have you ever tried to figure out these confusing terms but still don’t have any clue about them? Here’, we’ll explain the said trendy technologies—in simple words—and compare them to older technologies, so that you can quickly grasp their main ideas.   What’s the Difference between LCD, LED, and OLED?   LCD stands for a “liqui...

As reported by South Korean media, display and semiconductor equipment supplier APS Holdings has disclosed that the South Korean government has selected one of its Micro OLED display project, where APS will be co-developing a 4000 PPI AR glass prototype with other developers of the project. As reported, a display that contains a high level of brightness is difficult in development for AR glasses as they are often used in outdoor environments, whereas the prominent challenge for suppliers in VR equipment lies on thin and lightweight displays. The existing AR...

Chinese company BOE Technology will reportedly begin trial production of Micro OLED display in the beginning of 2019 which will be applied for VR and AR, according to Korea’s ET News.