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Today Meta announced the VR Glasses, which are based on dual 2412x2288 OLED microdisplays, offering a 70x60 degrees FOV. The Glasses are based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon Reality Elite and feature 12GB of RAM, and hand, eye and face tracking sensors. The headset has no onboard computing, and everything relies on a 300-gram puck to provide power and data via a flexible fiber optic cable.

Meta says it will start shipping the VR Glasses in the spring of 2027, with a price tag of $1300. This is a much higher price than Meta's own Quest 3 ($600) - but much lower than Apple's $3,500 Vision Pro. This is an interesting move by Meta, and now the big question is whether consumers will agree to pay such a high price for such a headset.

According to Reuters, the Indian government is investigating LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics, as it is suspected that the two companies paid lower tariffs on imported OLED TV panels. These panels were later assembled into TVs in India. 

Indian officials say that the two companies paid 5% tariffs on the OLED panels, but this tariff rate is reserved for older LCD TVs aftermarket panels. New OLED TV panels should have been subject to a 15% tariff. 

Researchers from ETH Zurich, in collaboration with researchers from RMIT University in Melbourne, developed polymer OLED emitters, that can also serve as photoresists - which means that these materials can be precisely patterned using photolithography. This could open the door to the production of ultra-fine polymer OLED devices. 

The research explain that they have developed a new class of long-chain (polymer) light-emitting molecules, that can resist harsh chemical treatment. To enable this, the researchers used the core-shell principle: the light emitting molecules are placed at the center surrounded by a star-like material pattern. The outer ends of the structure react to UV light. 

According to Counterpoint (DSCC), Chinese material suppliers will increase their OLED material market share, and will capture 50% of the China market by 2028 (up from 43% in 2025), and will generate $603 million in revenues by 2030.

The China-based material makers will get a boost in 2028, when the new 8.6-Gen OLED fabs in China will begin full-scale production, and these fabs are expected to increase their adoption of locally produced materials.

Researchers from the Fraunhofer IPMS have developed a new WRGB (WOLED) OLED microdisplay, based on a 28 nm CMOS process. The researchers say that this new display is highly efficient and features the smallest pixels to date. 

The new display offers a 720x540 resolution - with a subpixel size of 2.52x252 µm²  - to enable exceptionally high pixel densities of 5040 PPI. The flexible backplane architecture combines two driving concepts: frame-based (for continuous updates) and memory-based (for static content).

LG Display announced that it is starting to mass produce 24.5" FHD (1920x1080) 720Hz gaming monitor OLED panels. The company says that this is the first-ever OLED panel tailored specifically for esports. 

LGD says that standard esports monitors are almost always in the 24-inch class, to enable players to view the entire screen at a glance, smaller than other gaming monitor sizes. Beyond the high refresh rate (720Hz), the new monitor offers the fastest OLED response time (0.02 ms).