LG's first generation OLED PC monitor moaned at times about the overwhelming full-screen brightness. Well, it seems that LG has taken it all personal, like. That's because the company has just announced a new OLEDoS panel with a peak brightness of 10,000 nit.

Yes, 10,000 nits. No, I'm not just leaning on the '0' key and falling unconscious. If it doesn't seem to be fully retina roasted yet, get this one. We are talking about a small small OLED panel for VR headsets. So, it's 0.5 nits 10,000 inches from your eyeballs. What could go wrong?

LG is calling the new display panel Oled OLEDoS, which stands for OLED over silicon. It is created by depositing OLEDs directly on silicon wafers. This is not a completely new approach. For some time, the Lcos display panel has been available, which is a liquid crystal on silicon and is usually used in projectors as a high contrast alternative to dlp.

LG's OLEDoS panel is only 1.3 inches in size, but offers a resolution of 3,840x3, 840. The end result is a staggering 4,175DPI PIXEL DENSITY. That is, it is an ultra-high definition image, and there is no screen door effect that results in being able to see individual pixels.

For 10,000 nits bits, well, it definitely adds to realism. For example, if you want to simulate the unpleasant brightness of dazzling sunlight from a shiny metal surface, you will need a lot of knitwear.

Of course, running such a panel at a constant full-panel brightness of 10,000 nit would seem to cause a safety issue. How bright should such a panel be before it can actually cause eye damage?

LG says the new panel will allow VR headsets to "deliver an unparalleled, vivid 3D experience.""Well, pretty much.

To put all this into context, these new panels from LG are not entirely unprecedented. Apple's Vision Pro mixed reality headset uses a so-called micro OLED panel.This is actually OLED, also in silicon technology, with a rating of 5,000 nit. 

Apple does not cite the resolution of Vision Pro and instead only lists a total of 2300 million pixels. Assuming a square panel, it would work out to about 3,400x 3,400 pixels per eye.

Decomposition by iFixit revealed a slightly rectangular resolution of 3,660x3,200 with panels that are actually square inches or less. This means a pixel DENSITY of about 3,400DPI.

LG's new Oled panel looks like a step up in most ways, if not all, than Apple Vision Pro's micro OLED display. But at the same time, the Apple Vision Pro will give a pretty good idea of the kind of experience that LG's new panel will be capable of. 

There's still no word on the actual VR headset with the new LG tech. But suffice it to say that it appears to be set up to allow for another step forward in terms of VR realism.