To enable mass consumer adoption of XR systems, metrology standards must integrate objective measurements with human factors for meaningful evaluation of rapidly evolving architectures.
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The past few months have been very exciting for our society with interesting conferences and presentations that explore new display research and development.
过去的几个月对我们的社会来说是非常令人兴奋的,有有趣的会议和演讲,探索新的显示研究和发展。
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Glasses-based augmented reality has been inching into the market over the last several years and may see a big uptick in 2026 led by Meta, Google, Samsung, and others.
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Jason Hartlove, Ray Ma, Shizhe Shen, Daozhi Wang, Yun Wang, Michiel Callens, Alfredo Bismuto
The journey toward truly immersive and seamless VR and AR experiences is fundamentally driven by breakthroughs in display and optical technologies.
实现真正沉浸式无缝VR和AR体验的旅程从根本上是由显示和光学技术的突破推动的。
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<p><b>WE ARE HITTING THE GROUND RUNNING IN 2026 WITH</b> a very exciting calendar year of content. The new and innovative technologies in our industry seem to be everywhere, and we are entering a time where advances in each technology are moving faster than ever. Whether your interest is in important applications for displays, such as automotive or industrial equipment; you are focused on higher volumes of consumer devices, such as TVs, monitors, and phones; or you are inspired to pursue making the greatest augmented (AR) and virtual reality (VR) equipment, this is the time to embrace your ideas and go shopping for solutions.</p><p>Throughout the upcoming year, <i>ID</i> will include stories about innovative solutions and how they can be used to enable new product ideas. Through the themes we have chosen, augmented by the many gifted professionals who will help us compile our technical content, we will offer an inside look at what is new and exciting in the industry.</p><p>We start with the field of AR, VR, and extended reality (XR) displays in this issue, then we will explore leading-edge emissive technologies in March, and consider the promise of AI to revolutionize everything about displays and imaging in May. For July, we will reprise some of the most interesting work on automotive displays first seen at the Vehicle Displays and Interfaces conference. The September issue will cover the many aspects of display electronics—literally the glue for the building blocks of your next great product. To finish the year, the November issue will cover diverse and innovative applications for displays that may serve as templates for your product vision. Here at <i>ID</i>, we are working hard to bring in the best authors and editors to make this all happen and live up to the readers’ expectations.</p><p>Our technical package was developed by Guest Editor Radu Reit and starts with some great articles exploring important aspects of AR/VR display development, including the state of the art for imagers and optics, the challenges of applying optical metrology to these designs to know how well they will be accepted by users, and a marketplace analysis of how this part of the consumer industry is progressing and what tailwind AI is going to provide. Many of us know Radu from his extensive work in marketing for SID, but he is also a dedicated and ambitious technologist with a strong vision for the future of XR displays. You should read his guest editorial, “Building XR Devices on the Shoulders of Display Giants,” to fully appreciate the direction of these articles. Thank you, Radu, for all your work on this issue.</p><p>OLED displays, like LCDs, are made on large substrates and are cut to their final size during the later steps of the manufacturing process. Although we might want to use a giant pair of scissors to separate them, the preferred approach uses lasers to precisely separate each final part from the whole panel. In their Frontline Technology article “Lase
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Fabian Soerensen, Oliver Haupt, Yiyun Kang, Ralf Knappe
Thinner displays for foldable phones and maximized display areas require a very high-quality cut to avoid delamination and achieve a frameless display area.
可折叠手机的更薄显示屏和最大化的显示区域需要非常高质量的切割,以避免分层并实现无框显示区域。
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By using multi-camera AI-powered computer vision and pixel-level calibration, “liquid light” transforms age-old projection into a fluid medium.
通过使用多摄像头人工智能计算机视觉和像素级校准,“液体光”将古老的投影转变为流体介质。
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This issue delves deep into the display and optics technologies enabling extended reality (XR) devices to unravel both technical requirements for the industry, but also the metrology and market factors that will make these devices a success in the discerning eye of the consumer.
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