News: LEDs
12 May 2025
VueReal showcasing micro-LED innovations at Display Week
In booth 1447 at SID Display Week 2025 in San Jose, CA, USA (11–16 May), micro-LED technology firm VueReal Inc of Waterloo, ON, Canada is unveiling its latest micro-LED advances, highlighting scalable solutions for next-generation lighting, displays and transparent electronics across automotive, consumer and emerging tech applications.
With over 125 patents granted, VueReal says that its proprietary MicroSolid Printing platform overcomes key manufacturing barriers by enabling precise, high-yield micro-LED transfer at scale. All technologies shown at Display Week were developed using VueReal’s patented process and reference design kits (RDKs), allowing customers to prototype and build real products without traditional non-recurring engineering (NRE) costs — accelerating development and time-to-market.
Highlights at Display Week
At its booth, VueReal is featuring flagship demonstrations across three application areas:
1. Lighting: smarter, safer automotive displays
- Tail-light demo/RDK-Smart Hybrid Lighting, RED: Highlights ultra-high-brightness performance in a razor-thin form factor. Goes beyond traditional brake lights to deliver contextual messaging (e.g. hazard symbols or ‘ICE’ alerts), enhancing vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-pedestrian communication. Showcases the unique high-brightness capabilities inherent in red micro-LED devices that are not possible with many other lighting technologies.
- RDK-Smart Modular Lighting: Transforming automotive lighting with ultra-bright, energy-efficient micro-LED displays, delivering precision illumination and seamless integration for next-generation vehicles.
2. MicroDisplays: reimagining automotive interfaces
- Side-mirror demo/RDK-Smart Modular Lighting + RDK-high-brightness high-resolution 0.35” MicroDisplay: An industry-first ultra-compact concept showcasing +20,000nits of brightness from VueReal’s Smart Modular Lighting and a 1,000,000nit 0.35” micro-display — delivering exceptional visibility in all lighting conditions. The demo features a puddle light projecting the VueReal logo and highlights low-power, ultra-bright performance for automotive innovation.
3. Transparent displays: seamless integration into vehicle interiors
- Steering wheel HUD demo/RDK-RGB active matrix transparent 3.5” display: A functional concept showing real-time navigation, audio and map data across transparent displays integrated into the steering wheel. Delivers a futuristic yet functional user interface without visual clutter.
Private suite demonstrations
VueReal is also hosting private, R&D-focused demos showcasing a broader portfolio of next-generation technologies, such as:
- The world’s smallest 0.5μm micro-LED display;
- 10-inch and 6.x-inch ~85% transparent micro-LED panels;
- AR glasses with dual micro-LED displays;
- RDK-Smart Hybrid Lighting panels in amber, red and white for automotive;
- 3.5-inch transparent displays, digital mirror prototypes, passive matrix demos’
- Solar-integrated micro-LED power-generating display.
Expanding IP leadership
VueReal has surpassed 125 granted patents worldwide, with recent grants covering lighting, micro-display and transparent display technologies. This intellectual property portfolio protects VueReal’s leadership in scalable micro-LED and micro-device manufacturing, with strength in in-glass, transparent automotive, and advanced lighting applications.
“Display Week 2025 marks a key milestone as VueReal showcases how MicroSolid Printing is unlocking applications once thought impossible,” says chief commercial officer Rob Selley. “By solving challenges around scalability, yield, efficiency and cost, we’re enabling a new era of display innovation.”
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