{"id":780268,"date":"2026-05-07T19:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/780268\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T19:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:08:20","slug":"tcl-shows-off-new-high-ppi-oled-and-micro-led-displays-for-xr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/780268\/","title":{"rendered":"TCL Shows Off New High PPI OLED and Micro-LED Displays for XR"},"content":{"rendered":"

TCL has revealed its latest OLED and micro-LED displays aimed at AR and VR headsets. The company claims to have achieved new benchmarks for pixel density.<\/p>\n

Shown off at the SID Display Week event, TCL\u2019s new 2.24-inch display is claimed to be<\/a> the \u201chighest pixel density real RGB G-OLED display,\u201d at 1,700 PPI (pixels per-inch), for a total resolution of 7.2MP (2,600 \u00d7 2,784) and refresh rate of 120Hz.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A pair of TCL\u2019s G-OLED displays shown in a demo box with lenses | Image courtesy TCL<\/p>\n

While there are OLED displays out there with higher PPI, TCL claims it\u2019s got the highest PPI among glass-based OLED displays that use a \u201creal RGB\u201d subpixel layout. We take that to mean that the display is using an RGB stripe layout where every pixel has an equally sized red, green, and blue subpixel. That comes in contrast to many OLED displays that use different subpixel counts, sizes, and patterns (which can impact image quality).<\/p>\n

At 2.24-inches, this display is best suited for VR and MR headsets in the same size-class that we know today.<\/p>\n

For more compact devices, you need a much smaller display. That\u2019s where TCL\u2019s new micro-LED display comes in.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Image courtesy TCL<\/p>\n

In a footprint of just 0.28-inches, TCL has crammed a PPI of 5,131. While not suitable for wide field-of-view devices, this could easily be retina-resolution if employed in a small field-of-view (like in the smartglasses use-case).<\/p>\n

That seems to be where TCL is aiming at with this display; micro-LED is self-emissive and can be very bright, making it a good candidate for smartglasses which need displays with high brightness to combat daylight environments.<\/p>\n

TCL is claiming this display is the \u201chighest PPI single-chip full-color silicon micro-LED display.\u201d The resolution is\u00a00.9MP (1,280\u00a0\u00d7 720), which might not sound like much, but for comparison Meta\u2019s current Ray-Ban Display glasses have a 0.36MP (600\u00a0\u00d7 600) resolution which is less than half of the total pixels of this new display from TCL.<\/p>\n

Whether these new displays make a big splash on the market depends not just on their specs but also on their costs, reliability, and a handful of other factors of which we don\u2019t have clear details just yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TCL has revealed its latest OLED and micro-LED displays aimed at AR and VR headsets. The company claims…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":780269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[158,67,132,68,729,730],"class_list":{"0":"post-780268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-virtual-reality","13":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116534870385525680","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}