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9secondkox2 said:

Marvin said:

JP234 said:

If it's going to use microLED, expect it to come in closer to the projected $3,000 MSRP. That tech is currently expensive. Very expensive, no matter how small the screens are. Samsung sells two TVs with it, and they're both over $75K.

Micro OLED like these:

https://www.displaymodule.com/products/1-03-inch-micro-oled-display-2560x2560-with-mipi ($329)

https://www.kopin.com/kopin-oled-microdisplay-exhibits-breakthrough-7000-nits-brightness-with-good-color-fidelity/



They explain the high brightness (up to 10k nits) is so that it works well in AR when it competes with daylight and it avoids motion artifacts as the pixels are only illuminated for a fraction of the time on a fast refresh display. That brightness level also allows avoiding tone mapping for HDR:

https://www.avforums.com/articles/what-is-4k-hdr-tone-mapping.13883/

It's not likely they will run the whole display at that brightness, mainly very small parts like the brightest parts to give a realistic image.

The screens don’t compete with daylight in a closed environment if the daylight is managed via cameras piping in an AR feed from the outer portion of the headset. 

But this makes great sense if it’s using a glasses/sunglasses form factor. 

A lot of speculations at this point. We still don't know the actual physical design yet and I am not going to comment on the renders no matter how good they look. Although interpolating all the data leaks, it makes sense that Apple would go for hybrid form factor and the high nits is then necessary for AR overlay through lenses. It also makes sense for the design to look more like sunglasses than Oculus with the ability to switch to VR environment by turning the lenses into opaque. While in VR mode, it is now necessary to lower much of that nits and increase the pixel density for realism.