The SID Display Week 2024 conference is taking place this week and LG Display revealed a number of next-generation OLED displays as part of the conference, including a VR headset display that appears designed to be as bright as the sun.
The OLEDoS (or OLED on Silicon) panel for virtual reality that LG introduced is a 1.3-inch screen that, according to LG, is capable of reaching an ultra-high brightness of 10,000 nits.
Just for comparison, we recently reviewed the LG C4 OLED TV, a mid-range TV that’s capable of hitting nearly 1,200 nits in our brightness tests. Higher brightness provides more detail during bright scenes in a show or movie, but also helps retain color saturation during the day. And that’s a TV, a device you typically sit 6 to 10 feet away from in the average living room.
On the VR front, the Meta Quest 3 VR headset, released late last year, has an advertised brightness of 100 nits per eye. This is for a pair of panels that sit just a few centimeters from your retinas. LG claims it is 40% brighter than the standard lens. We’ve read that the Apple Vision Pro’s panels are micro-OLED and rated at 5,000 nits, but what you actually see is probably closer to 120 nits.
Assuming that’s true, can we expect VR headset users with this LG OLEDoS to hit around 240 nits? It’s still quite bright and LG claims the panels offer a “vivid and unparalleled 3D experience.”
Beyond the astonishing brightness that LG claims, the OLEDoS VR display is said to have a resolution of 3840 x 3840 and a pixel density of 4175 DPI. For comparison, the Sony PSVR 2 has a resolution of 2,000 x 2,040 pixels per eye.
We imagine that running two panels at that brightness level would be a security issue in addition to draining the system. However, note that there is no word from LG on a headset that could actually include these panels.
Other screens
LG Display also announced a 1.3-inch 4k OLEDoS panel for smartwatches. It is supposed to support 3D display capabilities and has light field display technology.
The company also introduced two OLED displays designed for gaming. One is a 39-inch curved Ultra Wide OLED with a 21:9 aspect ratio and a curvature of 800R, or the equivalent of the curvature of a circle with a radius of 31 inches.
The other display is a 27-inch OLED monitor with a 480Hz refresh rate. The average gaming monitor ranges between 144Hz and 240Hz. However, one of our favorite gaming monitors is the Alienware 500Hz, which hits 500Hz. Hz overclocked but 480 Hz natively.
LG also introduced automotive displays with Advanced Thin OLED (ATO) displays in 12.3-inch and 17-inch sizes. For the most part, they appear to be slight improvements over previous ATO designs. The company also continued with its transparent OLED prototypes, which look great but don’t appear to be ready for public release.
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