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TechComputers & PCsIf these Apple micro-OLED and Samsung hologram AR headset rumours are true, don’t expect a 2022 launchThe headsets sound brilliant, but the rumoured timescales are awfully optimisticWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
The headsets sound brilliant, but the rumoured timescales are awfully optimistic
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The latestApple AR/VR headsetrumours are very tasty: according toSlashgear, the headset may make it into 2022 after all and with a super-advanced screen – andSamsungmay launch its own ‘Hologram’ AR/VR headset too. It’s quite a detailed rumour, and the detail is why I’m not convinced: at least one of the launches relies on display tech that’s a bit like flying cars, jetpacks and the end of Facebook – long promised but yet to be delivered. And the other is based on something Samsung doesn’t currently have production plans for.
According to “industry sources”, both headsets will have powerful processors – the M1, or a variant of it, inApple’s case – and the Apple one will have twin micro-OLED displays.
This isn’t the first rumour that’s said the same thing, but I wonder whether it’s wishful thinking or is actually longer-term plan rather than what we’ll see in the first generation headset. Because micro-OLED is really, really hard and expensive to make right now.
Micro machines
The price isn’t necessarily an issue for the Apple VR headset, because we’re expecting it to cost a small fortune and to be aimed at developers and early adopters anyway. But late last yearwe noted that micro-OLED screensmightgo into production for the first timein 2022… in tiny 0.7-inch sizes.
The idea of high-quality micro-OLED displays being available for mass production in Apple’s preferred quantities in 2022 seems… unlikely, shall we say high. If micro-OLED were really doable for any big product launch in 2022, we might’ve expectedSonyto put it in thePSVR 2. But it hasn’t: it’s stuck with regular OLED.
As with the Apple rumour, the Samsung device appears to use a next-generation display technology: according toETNews.com, the device will have a “hologram” system to make images look as if they really exist. The report says that “Samsung Electronics has been preparing for the commercialization of hologram technology for a long time with Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology.” Samsung went into a lot of detail on its hologram display experiments back in 2020, and you can read more about themhere.
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