Liquid-crystal display
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Sep 22, 2026
TinasheHOST
I can't quote numbers.
TinasheHOST
So, I mean, let's not get hung up on the LCDs.
TinasheHOST
They're actually a small portion.
RufaroHOST
Do you know how absurd that market is? At one point, I don't know whether it's still true, we were trading TVs that had matured.
JeffGUEST
You know, everybody compares it to the MetaQuest 3 because it basically is a MetaQuest 3 in terms of hardware, in terms of battery life, in terms of displays.
JeffGUEST
A lot of people have complained about the LCDs and this and that.
JeffGUEST
I don't know.
JeffGUEST
Right now,
Norman ChanGUEST
So Big Screen Beyond is micro OLED, Pimax Dream Air, micro OLED.
Norman ChanGUEST
Somnium has giant LCDs and lenses.
Norman ChanGUEST
So the optic stack is the thing that you're talking about.
Norman ChanGUEST
The higher resolution, the higher quality display is going to cost a lot more.
Norman ChanGUEST
Yeah, yeah.
Norman ChanGUEST
So pancake lenses, they first showed up in the mass market with the Quest Pro.
Norman ChanGUEST
And just, I guess, a quick explainer of how they work, right, is the goal is to make the optic stack as thin as possible while maintaining what you need from... lenses in general, which is to turn a panel that's, you know, whether it's an inch in diagonal or two inches, like some of the LCDs, to wrap around as much of your field of vision, right? And the old way of doing it with Fresnel lenses, like the first Oculus, you know, prototypes and dev kits and even the first, like, Rift and HTC Vive, they're really thick, right? They protrude out from your face.
Norman ChanGUEST
And so what pancake development pancake lenses, which is the collapse that lens into something that's, I don't know the exact measurements, but I want to say it's like definitely less than a centimeter thick is that it has, it's has, it's actually not like it's, you know, like if you think of, um, like a camera lens, there are lots of optical elements that are stacked in, right.
Jeff LeeGUEST
You know, everybody compares it to the MetaQuest 3 because it basically is a MetaQuest 3 in terms of hardware, in terms of battery life, in terms of displays.
Jeff LeeGUEST
A lot of people have complained about the LCDs and this and that.
Jeff LeeGUEST
I don't know.
Jeff LeeGUEST
Right now,
WilkinHOST
Nothing answered.
WilkinHOST
Even the old LCDs glowed with a clean, unnatural white.
WilkinHOST
No afterimage, no backlighting, as if the light source was everywhere at once.
WilkinHOST
A new instability crawled up from the pit.
Aaron AlpeterHOST
Again, when we were at Mirror, we had a manufacturer at Mexico.
Aaron AlpeterHOST
All of our sub-assemblies, the LCDs, the microchips, all that sort of stuff came from Asia.
Aaron AlpeterHOST
They came into Mexico duty-free because it came in through Micheladora.
Aaron AlpeterHOST
They were turned into something else.
Juan Carlos BagnellHOST
It's 2160 by 2160 per eye.
Juan Carlos BagnellHOST
So LCDs, and I believe they're little pancake lenses.
Juan Carlos BagnellHOST
So, I mean, I feel like that's good.
Juan Carlos BagnellHOST
I'll be curious to see, because I haven't had my face in a Vision Pro since Vision Pro launched.
Thurston HillmanHOST
You still remember the shouts from when the family finally convinced him to switch from CRT.
Thurston HillmanHOST
And this is still like a very old, like one of those first generation, still thick, not entirely thin LCDs.
Thurston HillmanHOST
You see this.
Thurston HillmanHOST
You even see the bottle of brandy that's on the table that your father would often indulge in.
Amiga BillGUEST
There's, uh, there's nothing like looking at a CRT, playing games on a CRT.
Amiga BillGUEST
Uh, uh, sometimes some of the newer games look great on, you know, LEDs or LCDs, but nothing brings back the retro, nothing brings back the Amiga experience like some of that interlaced flicker.
Amiga BillGUEST
[laughs]
Dan WoodHOST
Yeah, and this time of year as well, they heat up your room, which is a, a nice added bonus.
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Dan WoodHOST
Yeah.
Joe FoxHOST
And from what I understand, it would be, like, it- crazy expensive to open up a factory that, that makes CRTs now, and no, no one's doing it at the moment.
Joe FoxHOST
So the be- the next best thing we can do is to try and, you know, emula- emulate, recreate the experience, uh, with LCDs.
Joe FoxHOST
So what this looks like to me is basically like an LCD in a CRT housing, like you said.
Jeffrey TadlockHOST
But do try to listen to your mind, what's grabbing your mind.
Jeffrey TadlockHOST
Um, you know, you and I, after the Cole Thompson and Sean Barclay episode about black and white photography, I think you and I both started switching our LCDs'-
Michael RungHOST
Mm-hmm
Jeffrey TadlockHOST
... picture profiles to black and white a little more often to, oh, I'm not seeing a whole lot, or you're, something like that.
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