Visionox has announced that it is ready to mass-produce the first screens that will allow the front camera to be placed underneath . That is, it will allow manufacturers to forget about other solutions such as the notch, the holes in the screen or the pop-up mechanisms that until now were used to offer the best possible all-screen experience.
From notch to “invisible” cameras
With the launch of the iPhone X we could say that smartphone manufacturers began a race to see who was capable of offering the best all-screen experience. A complicated challenge, because elements such as the front camera or other sensors needed a certain space in the front. Therefore, if you wanted to minimize the edges of the screen, you had to resort to various solutions.
The notch did not seem like a bad option , but on some Android devices it was so large and seemed to have so little justification, that in the end it was advanced to the drop notch and from there to the perforated screens. This, if you doubt, is one of the best options currently available, although it is not the most attractive for everyone.
If you are a user who regularly uses the phone in landscape mode to watch videos or play video games among other types of uses, you will know that the hole is something you adapt to, but it also bothers that it is always there. Although some manufacturers disguise it with dark wallpapers with that area so that they “bother” less despite being.
And yes, pop-up or periscope mechanisms could have been a good option if it weren’t for a little worse use of the front camera for things like facial recognition or selfies that you might want to take.
Therefore, with all this panorama it was logical that the manufacturers of screens continued to see new ways of making that front camera disappear and possible additional sensors. Visionox was one of them and already seems to have found the solution and way to mass produce its new Visionox InV see .
Ice universe@UniverseIceChina’s display manufacturers, Visionox, has just announced the world’s first mass-produced under-display camera solution. The world’s first under-display camera phone will be released.
How do they manage to hide the front camera behind the screen? Well, in a rather curious way: using a second panel . In other words, the screen is actually made up of two panels. The first and the one that occupies the most percentage would be a traditional OLED panel, while the second would also be an OLED but some changes would have been made at the material level and structures to make it more translucent and thus let the camera placed after the.
This ability to reveal the front camera sensor, they say, is achieved with new organic and inorganic materials, as well as the use of certain algorithms that would correct certain problems that would generate putting an extra element in front. For example, diffraction themes lack of brightness, etc.
The ideal solution?
Whether or not Visionox’s new technology is the ideal solution is something we can only say when they hit the market. Something that could happen from the hand of Xiaomi, with whom the company has already worked developing the curved panel of the Mi Mix Alpha.
In any case, it must be recognized that it excites as much as it generates doubts . Because we all know that placing extra elements in front of a sensor always adds more complexity to make quality captures and increases the probability of generating defects in these images.
In addition, it should not be forgotten that to make it more translucent, materials have had to be modified that could make us notice that difference when it comes to representing the color of the images and also the brightness.
In summary, there are some unknowns that only time will solve. For now, the positive of all this is that technology continues to advance and the experiences and use that the new smartphones will offer will always improve. Or so we all hope.