Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional was launched within the US in April, and the corporate’s first combined actuality headset is now obtainable in a handful of nations, excluding India. Studies counsel that the corporate is already engaged on a extra reasonably priced 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 with the intention to ship a cheap model of the combined actuality headset.
Apple Might Use Samsung’s Show Know-how for Extra Reasonably priced 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 reasonably priced 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 reasonably priced panel would nonetheless have a significantly increased pixel density than most show panels used on smartphones immediately. In keeping with the publication, Apple may use a know-how referred to 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 element can be used to type 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 want to make use of a panel that’s constructed utilizing a glass plate.
Apple is reportedly making an attempt to design the color filter element in such a approach that it’s situated 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 keeping 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’d not study extra in regards to the purported headset for a number of months.