Ultrathin Lens and Curved Display

[copec]

I have been a lurker at MTBS3D for years, but have never really contributed much. I suppose contributing half-baked ideas is still next to nothing

Since the day this was posted: http://www.gizmag.com/ultrathin-flat-le ... ard/23890/
I immediately thought about the combination of that with curved OLED displays to create something that is high res and lightweight.

Of course if it was mainstream from the get-go so that someone put actual R&D into it there could be affordable electric cars and high resolution consumer HMDs now.

Anyways, I saw this http://www.anandtech.com/show/7561/a-lo ... ed-display and it kind of got me excited again. So I thought I would finally post something up so I could either get "yeah dude! HIGHFIVE" or totally shot down :-p

Anywhozel, I dig watching all the stuff you guys do, keep it up!

[Hannibalj2]

Hello copec, Nice for sharing! This lcd's are using probably Mipi connectors. Resolution wise they are OK, but the weight would be a welcome improvement!

[copec]

Hello copec, Nice for sharing! This lcd's are using probably Mipi connectors. Resolution wise they are OK, but the weight would be a welcome improvement!

I am mostly excited by the potential of it!

[FMPrime]

The gold meta-material lens sounds very similar to a holographic optical element to me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographi ... al_element

Holographic optics would need to be designed to work with the specific wavelengths of light produced by the OLED panels.


Lightweight, thin HMD's would be awesome. Custom diffractive/holographic lenses would be very pricy to get right though.