Silicon Micro Display Announces ST1080 HMD with 10% Transparent 1080p Displays
The ST1080 HMD, which was just recently announced by Silicon Micro Display, is a consumer targeted HMD with dual 1080p displays. Pricing for the ST1080 has not yet been announced, though CEO Paul Jin says that that information will be revealed on 12/1/11.
The HMD boasts dual 1080p displays, which means that the ST1080 is packing 56% more pixels than Sony’s soon to be launched HMZ-T1 HMD which uses 720p displays. Thanks to the dual-displays, the ST1080 also supports 3D quite easily. The companion control box that will be used with the ST1080 has HDMI type-A (full) and type-D (micro) inputs, which means you’ll be able to easily connect to a range of devices from tablets and game consoles to computers and Blu-ray players.
While Silicon Micro Displays’s offering doesn’t use OLED displays like the HMZ-T1, it boasts an interesting display technology called LC0S (Liquid Crystal On Silicon) which allows the displays to be semi-transparent. The company says that the ST1080 displays are 10% transparent, which makes me think that this will be a formidable platform for augmented reality applications. The displays are only 0.74″ diagonally with 2,073,600 pixels per display — an incredible 2976.9 pixels per inch! Just for comparison, the iPhone 4’s pixel-packed 3.5″ 960×640 ‘retina’ display is only 329 PPI.