At CES 2025, VueReal was showing how its patented MicroSolid Printing Technology can be used to open up new product markets. MicroLED offers superior brightness, transparency, and energy efficiency, and because of its physical structure, it can target applications previously unattainable with OLED or MiniLED solutions.
At the heart of VueReal’s offering is its range of MicroLED Design Reference Kits, which provide product designers with ready-to-use solutions to integrate MicroLED technology into their innovations. The first reference kit features lighting panels designed for uniform area lighting, much like OLED panels but with significantly improved brightness, longer lifetimes, and reduced costs. These panels are available in monochrome formats with either native RGB colors or phosphor-coated variants for broader applications.
VueReal also presented passive matrix and active matrix (LTPS) MicroLED displays, available in 3.5-inch and 10-inch sizes. These displays achieve up to 85% transparency, making them ideal for integration into surfaces where clarity and unobtrusiveness are critical. Their ultra-thin form factor enables creative design possibilities, including seamless lamination onto diverse substrates.
In collaboration with RIT, VueReal has developed microdisplays on a PM backplane, offering a cost-effective monochrome solution tailored for augmented reality (AR) applications. Additionally, another microdisplay variant on a CMOS backplane combines optical technologies to achieve full-color output, catering to more advanced AR and wearable solutions.
The company’s innovative approach extends to integrating solar energy harvesting capabilities with MicroLED displays. By embedding MicroLED displays onto polysilicon solar panels, VueReal has demonstrated the ability to power wearable devices, such as smartwatches, without external charging. Even at high pixel densities, such as 326 PPI, these displays maintain high transparency, enabling dual functionality as both display and energy source.
VueReal’s AdaptiveVue technology combines transparent MicroLED displays with electrochromic platforms. This allows pixel-level transparency control, enabling applications ranging from dynamic shading to displays capable of blending seamlessly into their environments.
The automotive sector is a big focus for VueReal’s efforts, showcasing how MicroLED displays can transform vehicle design. VueReal has demonstrated transparent displays that integrate into car windshields, dashboards, or even the body, providing high-performance solutions for both interior and exterior applications. Digital mirrors enhanced with MicroLED overlays and transparent window displays for RoboTaxis represent just a few of the many possibilities.
Unique among MicroLED startups, VueReal comes up with some truly interesting ideas for the application of its technology beyond addressing cost and scalability issues. The big display companies, like Samsung, can afford flights-of-fancy demonstrations, and maybe even make them a reality but I like the way VueReal is democratizing that proces and opening up the possibilities.
It’s not just mass production capabilties that tie MicroLED development down, it is the application of those technologies. Even the might Apple shied away from involvement but that may have been because the company expects too much from the technology. VueReal’s design reference kits are great way for opening the door to new MicroLED implementations for innovators who would otherwise have no chance if they relied on the major display vendors.
