2023 Global Laser Display Technology and Industry Development Conference held in Qingdao

The new achievements exhibited at the 2023 Global Laser Display Technology and Industry Development Conference held in Qingdao were eye-catching, and the guests at the conference enthusiastically discussed that the industry is "approaching the eve of the outbreak".

Laser displays are not only available in products such as laser TVs and laser projectors, but also in car displays on intelligent connected vehicles where laser display solutions are being applied. The latest laser display technology achievements exhibited at the 2023 Global Laser Display Technology and Industry Development Conference held in Qingdao on September 19th were a dazzling sight for attendees. The conference is hosted by the Shandong Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology and the Qingdao Municipal Government. Wang Bo, a member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and Vice Mayor, attended the meeting.

At this conference, the keywords "eve of the outbreak" and "approaching the critical point" were frequently mentioned. In the view of the attending guests, driven by the dual factors of technological progress and continuous expansion of application scenarios, laser display, as an emerging industry, is accelerating from the market introduction period to the maturity period, and the turning point of industrial scale explosion is approaching.

It may become popular within the next 10 years
The Global Laser Display Technology and Industry Development Conference has been held since 2019, and every year, the conference showcases the latest laser display technology products, making it the most direct window to observe the development of the laser display industry.

Compared to previous conferences, the laser display products exhibited at this conference are dazzling, including foldable laser TVs, top mounted laser cinemas, laser projectors, and numerous groundbreaking innovative achievements in laser display, including the cutting-edge car mounted head up display. If the past few conferences have mainly focused on showcasing celebrity products, then this year's conference has showcased an increasingly large matrix of laser display products to the outside world.

The Hisense car mounted laser display scheme exhibited at the conference.
Behind the continuous enrichment of products is the accelerated maturity of laser display technology. From key components such as lasers, imaging chips, lenses, to integrated solutions such as light source design, optical mechanical modules, and overall machine design, various technologies are rapidly iterating.

"It is expected that in the next 10 years, laser display technology will be rapidly developed and popularized." Xu Zuyan, academician of the CAE Member, said that laser display technology will become the mainstream of the market, and the space for display technology upgrading and iteration will be fully opened.

Continuously expanding application scenarios
Many people have started to understand laser displays from household electronic products such as laser TVs and laser projectors. But in fact, after years of development, the application scenarios of laser display have accelerated and expanded. The continuous breakthrough in scene application has also become an important driving force for driving the laser display industry towards maturity.

Ouyang Zhongcan, an academician of the CAS Member, said that the application scenario of laser display also shifted from indoor to outdoor, from individuals to groups, and from one-way output to intelligent interaction. Laser display has become the best display carrier for home, industrial, commercial, educational, as well as in car, AR and other application scenarios.

Nichia Chemical Director Takashi Kozaki also stated that laser light sources are increasingly being used in various display devices, such as laser televisions, laser cinemas, mobile projectors, AR/VR displays, laser micro projectors, and car displays.

The research on the "2023 White Paper on High Quality Development of the Laser Display Industry" released by the conference also confirms this point. According to the white paper, laser displays are showing a trend of global rise in application scenarios. Mainstream application scenarios such as home use, engineering, business, and education have achieved year-on-year growth of 20% -40% respectively in the first half of this year. More than 60% of projectors in Chinese cinema lines have been updated with laser light sources. In emerging scenarios such as internet celebrity catering, outdoor camping, and smart cultural heritage, laser display achieved more than twice the scale growth in the first half of this year.

From the enterprise perspective, scenario development has become a key layout for enterprises. Li Wei, President of Hisense Video, introduced that Hisense has established three major scene research centers: home, commercial, and car. In the future, Hisense will gather a global designer group, a new media visual team, and collaborate with automotive brands to continuously create creative spaces for immersive experiences.

Embrace the 'coexistence of virtual and real'
In the past two years, virtual reality technology has developed rapidly, and laser displays are expected to open up the interactive entrance between the virtual world and the physical reality world.

From monochrome to tricolor, from below 2K to 2K to 4K and then to 8K, laser displays have achieved very good results. In the future, more consideration needs to be given to how to showcase the potential of laser displays, such as combining them with ultra-high definition videos to jointly explore the prospects of laser displays, "said Professor Xu Lixin from the University of Science and Technology of China.

In the view of Xu Ke, Deputy Director of the Suzhou Nanometer Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the full integration with communication technology will be the key to distinguishing laser display technology from other display technologies in the future. Everyone proposed '5G+8K', which is a particularly good direction, "he said.

Nowadays, AR/VR glasses are all headworn, bringing the entire virtual world to the forefront. In the future, the entire information can be projected onto entities in the environment through projection, creating a brand new virtual reality that completely breaks the boundaries of display size. "Liu Xianrong, General Manager of Hisense Laser Display, introduced that in the future, laser display needs to open up more imagination space, and software and hardware human-computer interaction will be an important direction for technological breakthroughs.

Source: Sea View News