With Apple seemingly focusing on its upcoming slew of AI-enabled smart glasses, jettisoning the bulky Vision Pro headsets in the process, Samsung is now reportedly taking over all of the joint display-related research work that was geared towards the Vision Pro Air, which was billed as a lighter version of Apple's ungainly Vision Pro headsets.
Samsung will continue to develop low-cost micro-OLED tech, presumably for its own smart glasses, after Apple ends the joint effort that was geared towards realizing the Vision Pro Air
For the benefit of those who might not be aware, OLEDoS, also called micro-OLED display tech, mounts Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLED) directly onto a single-crystal silicon wafer substrate. Unlike traditional OLED screens used in smartphones or TVs that are built on a glass or plastic base, micro-OLED leverages semiconductor manufacturing processes to achieve extreme miniaturization and performance, leading to ultra-high pixel density and an improved power consumption profile, especially as the circuitry is integrated directly into the silicon backplane using CMOS technology. These innovations make this technology an ideal choice for smart AR glasses and headsets.
We reported as far back as November 2025 that Apple was shelving its plans for a Vision Pro Air, with some rumors going so far as to suggest at the time that the iPhone maker had asked Samsung to stop developing low-cost micro-OLED panels - which leverage a glass substrate and are internally known as the G-VR display - for the lighter version of the Vision Pro altogether.
Well, South Korea's The Elec is now reporting that Apple has formally cancelled the development of these micro-OLED panels, and has reportedly asked Samsung to halt the work on its G-VR project as soon as this September. Presumably, this extension till September might be due to lingering contractual obligations.
While the mass production of these micro-OLED panels was expected only by 2028, the report goes on to note that Samsung might co-opt this technology and continue developing it for its own smart glasses.
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