In recent years OLED technology has emerged as the leading display technology for wearable devices - for fitness bands, smartwatches and VR headsets, due to the great image quality, the low power consumption and to the design possibilities enabled by flexible OLEDs. For more information on OLED displays for wearables, and the latest industry news, click here.
Following is a list of wearable devices with OLED displays:
Xiaomi's Watch 2 Pro offers a 1.43" 466x466 AMOLED display, a Snapdragon W5+ Gen 1 chipset, 2 GB of RAM, 32 GB of storage and several sensors (including SPo2 and heart rate).
The Watch 2 Pro will ship in October 2023, starting at around $300.
Garmin's Vivoactive 5 smartphone offers a round 1.2" 390x390 AMOLED display, several health and fitness sensors and applications, and a 11 days battery life.
The Vivoactive will ship soon for $299.
Huawei's Watch GT 4 smartwatch offers a round 1.43" 466x466 AMOLED display, hear rate, SPo2 and thermometer sensors, HarmonyOS 4.0 and 50 m water resistance.
The Watch GT 4 will ship in October 2023, for around $300.
Apple's 2023 Watch 9 series offers a 1.9" 2000 nits 484x396 LTPO AMOLED display, while the Watch Ultra 2 offers a 1.92" 3000 nits 502x410 LTPO AMOLED.
Apple's 2023 smartwatches will start shipping on September 22, 2023.
Lenovo's Legion Glasses is an AR HMD are based on dual FHD (1920x1080) 60hz OLED microdisplays. The Glasses can be connected via USB-C to any device, but are mostly geared as a companion to Lenovo's own Legion Go Windows gaming handheld device.
The Legion Glasses will ship in October 2023, with a price tag of 329.
The Garmin Venu 3 offers a 1.4" 454x454 round AMOLED display, and 14-day battery life. The Venu 3s offers a smaller 1.2" 390x390 AMOLED, and a shorter battery life (10-day). The two smartwatches are geared towards health and wellness, with sleep monitoring, over 30 sports apps.
The Venu 3 and 3s are now shipping priced at $450 (both models).
The Oppo Watch 4 Pro offers a 1.91" 378x496 LTPO AMOLED display, a 3D cover glass, Snapdragon W5 chipset, 2 GB of RAM, 32 GB of storage, and a host of sensors including heart rate, blood oxygen, ECG, air pressure and wrist temperature.
The Watch 4 Pro will ship in early September 2023, starting at around $315.
The Immersed Visor is a VR headset that offers dual 4K OLED microdisplays (4K per eye), Immersed's own productivity software an on-board chipset and a battery-powered wireless mode. Immersed says that it collaborated with Qualcomm, Intel and an "undisclosed AR/VR tech giant".
The Visor is expected to ship in 2024.
Samsung's 2023 smartwatch series, the Watch6, offers two models (Watch6 and Watch6 classic), both with similar displays - either a 1.3" 432x432 or a 1.5" 480x480 Super AMOLED. The Android Wear 4 OS devices both offer 2G of RAM, 16GB of storage and several sensors.
The Galaxy Watch6 series will start shipping on August 11, starting at around $375.
The long-anticipated Apple VR headset, the Apple Vision Pro, features dual 1.41" 4K (4000 PPI) microdisplays (reportedly produced by Sony) - and rather surprising it does not have a foveated design. The headset also includes an external OLED display (reportedly produced by LGD) to simulate the user's eyes (reverse passthrough).
The Vision Pro is based on Apple's M2 chipset, and includes 12 cameras, five sensors, a lidar scanner and six microphones. Inside the headsets there are more cameras and sensors and the device also includes a new chip used for real-time processing of real-world data (the R1 chip). Apple says the battery life of the Vision Pro is two hours.
