AR & Displays

Full-colour microLED remains the bottleneck for AR glasses

Brightness is solved. Colour is not. Lenscript explains why the light engine, not the waveguide, sets the pace of AR eyewear.

·8 min read·Lenscript reporting

A see-through display has to compete with daylight. That is why microLED, with its extreme brightness per watt, became the light engine of choice.

Producing red, green and blue microLEDs at the same efficiency, on the same die, at usable yields, is a materials problem rather than an optics problem.

The practical consequence for buyers: monochrome text and simple graphics will remain the norm in glasses-form displays for now.