Overlook about your feeble 140 DPI, 1,000 nit, 4K OLED screens, Samsung has simply introduced a brand new OLED panel with 5,000 pixels per inch able to 15,000 nits and past 8K decision. Oh, and it measures simply 1.4 inches throughout.
It’s, in fact, aimed toward VR headsets, therefore the teensy proportions. Samsung says it is going to additionally run at as much as 120 Hz and hit 99% of the DCI-P3 gamut. If that is not sufficient for you, Samsung can be doing a 20,000 nit model, albeit that panel solely delivers 4,200 DPI.
These actually vivid nit ranges are fascinating as a result of they’re going to allow a extra convincing rendition of being open air in the true world. The beyond-8K bit signifies that the display door impact or the viewer’s skill to discern the underlying pixel grid must be minimised, maybe absolutely neutralised, which once more will solely enhance realism.
Each panels use so-called OLEDoS tech, which suggests OLED on silicon. In accordance with Samsung, OLEDoS, “deposits natural supplies instantly onto a silicon wafer, enabling pixel sizes as small as tens of micrometers.”
Strictly talking, this is not the primary time we have seen VR-adjacent know-how able to 20,000 nits. Again in 2022, Meta confirmed off a “wildly impractical” prototype headset that would hit 20,000 nits.
That was so heavy, it needed to be suspended from the ceiling and required particular handles that the viewer used to easily maintain it in opposition to their eyes. The know-how in query wasn’t detailed by Meta, however I think it was LCD with some type of very highly effective however huge and dumb backlight.
In different phrases, these new Samsung panels take the identical primary concept, which is to allow a close to daylight-like expertise, and shrink it down right into a element that is truly usable in a headset.
By the way, if you happen to’re questioning what 20,000 nits is definitely like, it is fairly vivid, however nonetheless peanuts in comparison with, say, wanting instantly at noon daylight (one thing you positively should not do), which is usually regarded to be equal to 1.6 billion (sure, billion) nits.
20,000 nits is extra like a fluorescent mild tube. So, it is vivid, however it will not harm your eyes. Samsung appears to be transferring quick with this excessive brightness OLED tech for VR. In 2024, it confirmed off a 5,000 nit panel, at CES earlier this yr that elevated to 10,000 nits and now barely six months later that is doubled once more to twenty,000 nits.