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Microdisplays - Market, Industry and Technology Trends 2020 Market and Technology Report 2020 From Technologies to Markets Microdisplays - Market, Industry and Technology Trends 2020 Market and Technology Report 2020 Sample © 2020 TABLE OF CONTENTS • Glossary and definition • Industry trends 154 • Table of contents o Established technologies players 156 • Report objectives o Emerging technologies players 158 • Report scope o Ecosystem analysis 160 • Report methodology o Noticeable collaborations and partnerships 170 • About the authors o Company profiles 174 • Companies cited in this report • Who should be interested by this report • Yole Group related reports • Technology trends 187 o Competition benchmarking 189 • Executive Summary 009 o Technology description 191 o Technology roadmaps 209 • Context 048 o Examples of products and future launches 225 • Market forecasts 063 • Outlooks 236 o End-systems 088 o AR headsets 104 • About Yole Group of Companies 238 o Automotive HUDs 110 o Others 127 • Market trends 077 o Focus on AR headsets 088 o A word about VR 104 o Focus on Auto HUDs 110 o Focus on 3D Displays 127 o Summary of other small SLM applications 139 Microdisplays - Market, Industry and Technology Trends 2020 | Sample | www.yole.fr | ©2020 2 ACRONYMS AMOLED: Active Matrix OLED HMD: Head mounted Device/Display PPI: Pixel Per Inch AR: Augmented Reality HOE: Holographic Optical Element PWM: Pulse Width Modulation BLU: Back Lighting Unit HRI: High Refractive Index QD: Quantum Dot CF LCOS: Color Filter LCOS HVS: Human Vision System RGB: Red-Green-Blue CG: Computer Generated IMU: Inertial measurement Unit RMLCM: Reactive Monomer Liquid Crystal Mix CGH: Computer Generated Holography IPD: Inter Pupillary Distance ROE: Reflective Optical Element CMOS: Complementary Metal Oxide LCD: Liquid Crystal Display Semiconductor SDE: Screen door Effect LCOS: Liquid Crystal on Silicon DLP: Digital Light Processing SPAD: Single Photon Avalanche Diode LED: (Inorganic) Light Emitting Diode DMD: Digital Micromirror Device SRG: Surface Relief Grating MR: Mixed Reality DOE: Diffractive Optical Element TFT: Thin Film Transistor MSRP: Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price DOF: Degrees Of Freedom UHD: Ultra High Definition NIL: Nano Imprint Lithography DSLR: Digital Single Lens Reflex VAC: Vergence Accommodation Conflict NIR: Near InfraRed EVF: Electronic View Finder VR: Virtual Reality OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturer FOV: Field Of View OLED: Organic Light Emitting diode FSC LCOS: Field Sequential Color LCOS PAM: Pulse Amplitude Modulation FSD: Fiber Scanning Display PBS: Polarizing Beam Splitter HDR: High Dynamic Range PPD: Pixel Per Degree Microdisplays - Market, Industry and Technology Trends 2020 | Sample | www.yole.fr | ©2020 3 METHODOLOGIES & DEFINITIONS Yole’s market forecast model is based on the matching of several sources: Preexisting information Market Volume (in Munits) ASP (in $) Revenue (in $M) Information Aggregation Microdisplays - Market, Industry and Technology Trends 2020 | Sample | www.yole.fr | ©2020 4 ABOUT THE AUTHORS Biographies & contacts Dr. Zine Bouhamri As a technology and market analyst for the display industry, Dr. Zine Bouhamri is a member of the Photonics, Sensing and Display division at Yole Développement. Zine manages the day-to-day production of technology and market reports, as well as custom consulting projects. He is also deeply involved in business development activities for the Displays unit at Yole. Previously, Zine was in charge of numerous R&D programs at Aledia. In his time there he developed strong technical expertise as well as a detailed understanding of the display industry. Zine is the author and co-author of several papers and patents. Dr. Bouhamri holds a degree in Electronic Engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (France), one from the Politecnico di Torino (Italy), and a PhD in Radio Frequency and Optoelectronics from Grenoble University (France). Contact: [email protected] Dr. EricVirey Eric Virey, PhD., serves as a Principal Display Market and Technologies Analyst within the Photonics, Sensing & Display division. Eric has spoken in more than 50 industry conferences over the last 10 years and has been interviewed or quoted in multiple media including: The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fox News, CNBC, Bloomberg, Financial Review, Forbes, Technology Review, etc. Prior to joining Yole, Eric held R&D, engineering, manufacturing and marketing positions with Fortune 500 Company Saint-Gobain in France and the United States. Eric received a PhD in Optoelectronics from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble. He is based in Portland, OR. Contact: [email protected] Microdisplays - Market, Industry and Technology Trends 2020 | Sample | www.yole.fr | ©2020 5 COMPANIES CITED IN THIS REPORT 4Th Dimension Display, Aledia, Apple, Audi, Bmw, BOE, Bosch, Ceres, Holographics, Compound Photonics, Digilens, eMagin, Facebook, Fraunhofer, Google, Hella, Himax, Holoeye, Holoptic, Huawei, Intel, Jade, Bird Display, Jaguar, Jasper Display, Kopin, Land Rover, LG, Light Field Lab, Lumens, Luminit, Lumiode, Magic Leap, May, Mercedes, Micledi, Microoled, Microsoft, Microvision, Mojo Vision, NS Nanotech, OLEDworks, Olightek, OmniVision, Oppo, OQmented, Ostendo, Plessey, Raontech, Samsung, Sapien, Semiconductor, Seereal, Seeya, Sharp, Sony, Syndiant, Texas Instruments, Trilite, Trulife Optics, VividQ, Vivo, Vuereal, Xiaomi, and more. Microdisplays - Market, Industry and Technology Trends 2020 | Sample | www.yole.fr | ©2020 6 AN INTRODUCTION TO MICRODISPLAYS The resurgence of microdisplays • In the late 2000s, an interest in projectors rose, and with the nascent field of smartphones, newer projector embedded applications were demonstrated. However it never really penetrated the market much due to poor performance (brightness, contrast), battery lifetime usage and privacy concerns with the tablets getting into market providing a better alternative. And with the rise of the flat-panel industry, as the consumer became more and more accustomed to AR is the main higher quality images all around her, the trend did not pick momentum. With driver for the wireless technologies development, casting remotely on a regular display is Smartphone with integrated projector. resurgence of easier than ever.Though the picoprojector trend is there in emerging markets. (Source: MOVI) microdisplays, • In meeting rooms, classrooms and the like (e.g. cinemas), projector displays have but projection been necessary to ensure high resolution on a very high diagonal screen for displays and large audiences. The market has somehow stabilized today, and more and more EVFs have been regular flat-panel displays are eating market shares in these applications: larger driving them a TVs at low cost for meeting rooms, digital LED cinemas, etc. little. • For DSLR cameras, electronic viewfinders allow for the image captured by the lens to be projected electronically onto a microdisplay, and most of them have EVF of Panasonic Lumix DMC-G85/G80. one today. However, the DSLR market is also losing momentum, again due to (Source: Wikipedia) more advanced smartphones being released every year. Reflex cameras are more centered around optical viewfinders. • AR however has no credible alternative but to use microdisplays and the past An AR headset using a DLP. five years have seen a strong effort towards microdisplay development for such (Source: Vuzix) applications in the consumer market. Microdisplays - Market, Industry and Technology Trends 2020 | Sample | www.yole.fr | ©2020 7 AN INTRODUCTION TO MICRODISPLAYS The different kinds of spatial light modulator families that exist today In all these families, some technologies are not used for display-related applications. Some others are not microdisplays per se.We shall focus on these related to the major identified applications. For the major identified applications, not all display technologies are relevant. Microdisplays - Market, Industry and Technology Trends 2020 | Sample | www.yole.fr | ©2020 8 AN INTRODUCTION TO MICRODISPLAYS What’s new in the microdisplay world? August 2020 LG Display shows September 2020 an OLED-on-Si The new Mercedes S- panel at Display Class comes with an Week, 4,000 nits, AR HUD with TI 3500ppi projector February 2020 July 2020 Compound Photonics April 2020 Compound Photonics launches its August 2020 and Plessey light up Compound Photonics IntelliPix microLED microdisplay Kopin OLED Investments, first 0.26 inch fully unveils world’s smallest backplane platform microdisplay exhibits research and addressable integrated wide field of view 7,000nits 1080p Optical Engine July 2020 product microLED display August 2020 reference design for June 2020 eMagin Announces a module for AR/MR Aledia shows the picture announcements smart glasses Kopin develops Direct Patterned of a microLED are getting January 2020 rugged 1440p OLED Microdisplay microdisplay prototype, more and more VividQ and Compound ferroelectric LCOS with 7,500 Nits Photonics partner to 423ppi, 122k pixels March 2020 frequent. deliver an integrated June 2020 Facebook signs May 2020 solution for Real 3D August 2020 exclusive deal with Mojo Vision Vice Minister Wang Yafu of Holographic Display JBD announces the Plessey raises $51 County, Quanzhou City, targeted at Augmented million signed the Huidong Industrial world's smallest VGA Reality devices Park Micro OLED business microdisplay 2020 Microdisplays - Market, Industry and Technology Trends 2020 | Sample | www.yole.fr | ©2020 9 MICRODISPLAYS – MARKET FORECASTS End-systems where microdisplays have a play The TAM is driven by two growing
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