At AWE USA 2026, Samsung Display showcased its next-gen AR Smart Glasses prototype with advanced technologies, including 40000-nit screens.

The company’s RGB OLEDoS on Silicon technology hit that number on a 1.3-inch panel, demonstrated inside an installation called “The Big Dipper.” Seven panels and two of them push that 40,000-nit figure.

The AR glasses prototype is the more interesting play here. A 0.62-inch RGB OLEDoS panel sits inside the frames, driving real-time translation, navigation, and weather data overlaid against a projected Long Beach coastline.

There’s also an MR headset demo running K-pop concert footage and rhythm game “Synth Riders.” RGB OLEDoS is structurally simpler than white OLEDoS because it skips the color filter.

Simpler structure, better light efficiency, longer lifespan, lower production costs; “less complex than other technologies” is how one company official put it.

Samsung Display also prepared Light Field Display (LFD), which creates three-dimensional visuals that appear to exist in physical space without requiring glasses or a headset. The LFD at the booth shows a 3D-like image of Dabotap, a historic stone pagoda located at Bulguksa Temple, allowing visitors to view the structure from different angles and observe how the image shifts with changes in viewing position and perspective.

The side exhibit includes a stretchable display that physically changes shape and a Light Field Display producing glasses-free 3D images. Both are concept territory for now, but the AR glasses are real hardware.

// Samsung Display

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