{"title":"CES 2026 Offers Array of Demonstrations and Products","authors":"Chris Chinnock","doi":"10.1002/msid.70032","DOIUrl":"10.1002/msid.70032","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>THE 2026 CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW (CES) IN LAS</b> Vegas offered a vast array of display products and technologies, with several focused on automotive, TV, multi-primary displays, microLEDs, and meta-lenses. Regarding augmented reality (AR) glasses and extended reality (XR) headsets, perhaps the most important trend to watch is the emergence of competition in smart glasses—with and without displays and cameras but all with some sort of AI integration.</p><p>Many companies demonstrated production versions of pillar-to-pillar displays, panoramic head-up displays (P-HUDs), electronic rearview mirrors, center console displays, rear-seat entertainment displays, window displays, and AR-HUDs.</p><p>One trend was more vertical integration with a focus on the automotive market from traditional panel suppliers. AUO has formed the AUO Mobility Solutions Corporation, which includes Germany-based BHCT, a well-established Tier One automotive supplier. They announced their first design win of a cockpit controller. CarUX (Innolux) focuses on mobility solutions and used CES to announce that it is acquiring Pioneer Electronics for its strength in audio and access to the Japanese car market.</p><p>Rollable, slidable, and shaped OLED displays were mostly concepts this year. Particularly impressive was an S-shaped inkjet-printed OLED center console display from TCL CSOT, along with a slidable version of this same panel (<b>Fig</b>. 1). Other form factors included J- and L-shaped OLEDs and rollable OLED demonstrations.</p><p>Dual-view displays offer an alternative to driver privacy solutions that simply black-out distracting content on the passenger display, such as a movie. Samsung Display calls their solution “Flex Magic Pixel,” which is OLED technology that controls viewing angles at the pixel level to provide bult-in privacy protection (<b>Fig</b>. 2). LG Display had a similar privacy-enhancing OLED viewing-angle control system. Both are based on a dual-pixel approach, whereas CarUX showed an LCD display that uses a parallax barrier to deliver separate images.</p><p>One emerging area of innovation is decorative panels or “smart surfaces”—surfaces in the car that have traditionally had a fabric or textured material that can now include illuminated icons. The material can be a smooth, textured, or painted surface that is illuminated by microLED displays, segmented LEDs, or LCD displays. BOE showed a microLED and segmented LED version, whereas Tianma uses a quantum-dot (QD) miniLED LCD to create an image in their woodgrain surface (<b>Fig</b>. 3). CarUX can integrate a display with a leather or carbon fiber surface. Only Aumovio, Continental's spin-out automotive business, showed a color E-Ink-based smart surface.</p><p>Transparent window displays were also a hot topic. These can be transparent microLED displays glued to or laminated within a window, or a projector coupled to a diffusing layer affixed to the window. To support these applications, Texas Instrum","PeriodicalId":52450,"journal":{"name":"Information Display","volume":"42 2","pages":"38-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sid.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/msid.70032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147562107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Science and Entertainment are Coming Together","authors":"Stephen P. Atwood","doi":"10.1002/msid.70033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/msid.70033","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>PERCHED HIGH ON MOUNT LEE SITS THE ICONIC HOLLYWOOD</b> Sign, which remains perhaps the most recognizable symbol of the entertainment industry. Originally erected in 1923 as a real estate advertisement, it has become an enduring icon of ambition and stardom. A couple of miles away is the Griffith Observatory, located on the southern slope of Mount Hollywood. While the sign evokes emotional excitement for all the great entertainment that has come out of the famous Hollywood studios, the observatory evokes a deep appreciation of how our scientific capabilities can lead to incredible educational experiences and inspire intellectual pursuits.</p><p>From its opening in 1935, Griffith Observatory was designed to help expand public education and access to astronomy. It has introduced millions of visitors to astronomy and physics, making it one of the most popular public telescopes in the world. Its Samuel Oschin Planetarium uses advanced digital projection to visualize cosmology, black holes, and planetary science in ways that make cutting-edge discoveries accessible to the public. Many astronomers and aerospace engineers have cited early visits to the observatory as sparking their interest in science. And so, we can see the magic of bringing our biggest industry event to the area that evokes the best in both visual entertainment and scientific exploration.</p><p>One of the reasons I love our electronic display industry is because of all the great visual experiences it enables as well as all the different fields of science and engineering that must converge to make our products work. As much as our enjoyment of great visual displays is a close and personal experience, sometimes our pursuit of the underlying discoveries to make them happen seem as distant and beyond reach as peering at the stars.</p><p>This year, our Display Week program will kick off in Los Angeles on May 3 with a full week of extraordinary events. One of the most famous and historic of these events is the SID International Technical Symposium, dating back to the beginning of the annual conference. This is where you can see the best research papers in more than a dozen categories presented by the best engineers and researchers in the industry. The inspiring contributors are figuratively the soldiers in the trenches, slowly advancing leading-edge advancements of our industry one important innovation at a time. The best of more than 1,000 submissions made it into the program this year, resulting in 450 oral and 250 poster presentations.</p><p>To help you navigate the incredible diversity of content, we present our preview and highlights article compiled by Lori Wilson with input from our great program subcommittee members. Gather your colleagues and use this guide to divide and conquer so you can cover all the aspects of the upcoming program.</p><p>I hope this feature persuades you to make your travel plans and submit your registration form early. While you are in LA, find some time","PeriodicalId":52450,"journal":{"name":"Information Display","volume":"42 2","pages":"3-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sid.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/msid.70033","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147566652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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