Google Glass will have a microdisplay with Oled technology manufactured by Samsung

The microdisplay that Google Glass will have will be Oled technology and will be manufactured by Samsung, replacing the liquid crystal and silicon used by the Explorer Edition prototype.

Oled technology manufactured by Samsung will be the one that will use the microdisplay of the Google Glass, replacing the one that the known prototype had until now and delivered to developers (Explorer Edition), which was LCOS technology (liquid crystal on silicio).

This decision, not officially announced, is practically confirmed after Larry Page's visit, CEO of Google, to Samsung's Oled screen production facilities, the statements the person responsible for the latter, Kim Ki-nam, by ensuring that “our Oled screens can be used for augmented reality devices such as Google Glass”.

The change responds to the significant energy savings that would be achieved with OLED technology., since it does not require backlighting, as happens with LCOS, in addition to the possibility of also reducing the size of the glasses display.

The prototype model known until now of Google Glass, called Explorer Edition, used by developers and Google managers themselves, integrates an LCOS microdisplay, which would now be replaced by technology, more flexible and efficient, Oled. This has also been published in the Korean Times, which points out that “that means that Google shares confidential data from its futuristic projects with Samsung, which will help the company to further boost its Oled business”.