Samsung Is Working With Stanford University To Make 10,000ppi Displays

Virtual reality is an amazing technology but one of its biggest immersion breakers is the screen door effect, which are a mesh-like appearance seen on the screen as their eyes are so close to the screen that they can see the lines between the pixels.

Now, if Samsung and Stanford University’s research comes to life, we may eventually say goodbye to this annoying effect. Specifically, they have come up with an OLED tech that can support 10,000 pixels per inch for VR devices.

These days, a smartphone often features 400-500 pixels per inch. But researchers in Korea and those at Stanford have expanded on the current design for electrodes on ultra-thin solar panels to make their 10,000ppi screens.

In the new technology, the main innovation is the base layer made of reflective metal featuring an optical metasurface. The metasurface can manipulate light’s reflective properties, which lets different colors resonate in the pixels.

Due to the base layer corrugations, each pixel can be put at the same height while other OLED techs have different heights. This means a simpler process for micro-scale and large-scale fabrication.

According to a press release from Stanford University, screens with such high pixel density can provide amazing, true-to-life images, which is very important for a screen made to stay very close to our faces.

The AR and VR industry is playing a bigger and bigger role in entertainment, along with medical uses, medical training, and even military training.

It may take just a few years for this technology to become commercially available, which will then make a big leap in VR immersion.

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