Can You Game on the World's Smallest Monitor?
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I've got a tiny problem and a tinier screen. I picked up a 0.7" (~18mm) AMOLED display that is 1080p! That's over three thousand pixels per inch (MORE PIXELS THAN YOUR RETINA HAS ROOM FOR). Eat your heart out Apple. Can you actually use it though? Let's find out.
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Have any cool ideas for the wee display? Tiny all-in-one pc?
Maybe use it for a mini computer in a rubber / (eraser for you Americans) to allow for students to _not_ cheat in tests
@@nizarsehili8524 sounds cool
It could be installed with a mini calculator software
Old projector based answer phones (for residential stuff), black and white, had a two part system, a cathode ray tube, very small, just a big bigger than a common lipstick tube, and a really close to real 90 degree projector (lens) that i always thought looked like the Pip Boy screen.
To this day, i regret not saving that answer phone for this project, but i never thought back then that screens would get this small. Even in B&W that projector based screen was incredibly crisp. I mean, sharp as sharp can be. I could see clear details of the person's face, even letters, were they large enough, and the screen was just a 5 cm by 7 cm affair.
If you could track down such an answer phone, IMO, that'd make the perfect base for a real looking pip boy. Real curved glass, real glass ... crisp, and something you could actually wear, not like most actual tube replicas i've seen are.
Off the top of my head, the projector part of this deal couldn't have been thicker than 2 cm, as the answer phone was just enough to rest a Nokia 3310 on its back, without it falling off. I wish i could offer more, like the brand, but it's been almost two decades. :))
Maybe for a smart watch?
With an appropriate lens for the focus, you could probably use it inside a helmet or inside goggles. A real-life HUD, so to speak.
My mind can't stop thinking about putting this in a steampunk monocle now
That would be sweet
Now I just need to make a dope Sci-Fi helmet
Yep, that's _what the display was designed for_
fatshark goggles for fpv already exists
Sometimes you just wanna play a little DOOM.
(These displays are used in wearable computers, too!)
Ugh, I can't believe I missed this joke opportunity for my script, but also not surprised you came up with it. Also, I've spiked a message into your Insta DMs Zach.
I look forward to a video from Zack about these tiny displays.
My vote is for a gaming PC buttplug.
I thought it was a viewfinder screen for a dslr.
@@nick4506 Yeah, that's what I was going to say - these are definitely for viewfinders for cameras - usually they have a magnifier lens in front of them so when you put your eye up to it, it "looks" bigger (like a Tardis - it's bigger on the inside)
Buy ~10.000 of them, mount lenses to them and build a light field display
That would be 2000000 dolors
A biiiiiiiiit out of my budget, but that would look awesome
Actually that amount is just a 70 inch display, so... Nothing impressive.
what resolution would that even be lmao???
@@FunkyStudios 20,736,000,000 total pixels
Definitely put it in a pair of goggles, in front of your non-dominant eye, and hook it up to a camera on the back of your head. Boom, instant 360° FOV
you cant focus on something that close, it wouldnt work
@@Beyley it would need a lens fpv goggles do this already
I guess that is a nice way to induce vomit without medicine.
Perhaps someone can use it sporadically.
@@youkofoxy would only work on a small percentage of people.
Wait people have dominate eyes?
my god, now all he needs to do is make a tiny PC to go along with it, and install doom on it
And use a regular sized controller to control solenoids, that control a tiny controller that controls the game.
A tiny Doom?
Remember when someone got doom to run on a pregnancy test? Replace the lcd with that and some tiny buttons
@@sonnyrynsaard3567 Technically doom didn't run on the pregnancy test but rather on external hardware and the display was replaced anyway
@@starletscarlet oh yeah, I remember now. Still would be cool to put it somewhere unnecessary and play doom via I pi zero or something
I have a great idea - perfect for the season. Since the Steam Deck is releasing soon, you could:
take a Raspberry Pi, this screen, a hacked up bluetooth gamepad, and Steam Link and make a tiny tiny Steam Deck!
Releasing soon, cries in late pre order
you gotta make a tiny tv for hamsters, so they can watch hamster youtube vids
That would be adorable
Or hamtaro
I am assuming that the original purpose of the display was being a viewfinder for a camera.
My guess is mostly founded on the fact that it is an OLED
(Also making a comment so that the algorithm might smile upon this video)
I'm actualy thinking of VR more, as a secondary high rez display. They are present on high end pro headsets (north of 8k USD)
I think these were used in Varjo VR-1 headset for hires area where you had that 70 ppd (pixels per degree)
Did no one see that it said "for military helmets" or whatever it was on the order page?
Imagine they would build a 24" screen with that kind of pixel density. It would cost a lot and would be really dark, but it would have the highest resolution on earth.
37k resolution
or you could just buy a 27 inch 4k screen instead
You can also get tiny CRT's from old video camera viewfinders :D and if you can find the correct wires you can hook it up to an av output and maybe even hook up an hdmi to av converter!
Why would you get a converter when the best games are in analogue anyway? ;)
@@breandanvallance3107 For HDMI input if you have something newer with hdmi, like a computer.
@@Daa253 I know, I was just kidding. I did the CRT viewfinder hack you're talking about
Strikes me with the right optics this would make a badass hud.
Now make a HUD with it XD
My question is, is it truly 1080p?
Like there is really 1980 x 1080 pixels in that screen?
To be honest the pixel density doesn't sound realistic. 0.7" at 1980x1080 is 3147 PPI. As a compression PC monitors cap around 300 PPI and smartphones around 800 PPI.
Its more likely that the board is taking the 1080p signal and throwing it at a 480p or lower LCD screen.
Would be cool to see a very close up/microscope shot of that screen to verify the pixel density.
I assume it's from a mirrorless camera EVF in which case they are legitimately 1080p
@@highvis_supply i just did a quick google search of both Camera EVF's and the product he bought and it seems like yea thats pretty much it, they're EVF screens attached to a special made board for custom use.
Sony produces ECX339A that's 0.5" 1600x1200 (4000 DPI).
@@highvis_supply Yep these thing's are basically the reason mirrorless camera's have been taking off the past couple years.
The cap is how many pixels your GPU can push, not how many you can fit in the screen. After all, transistors are measured in nanometers.
My most favorite displays right now are round ones. I've gotten a bunch and i've started throwing them into all sorts of things, including my old Red Pig WIP tribute, the OG team of that car would probably laugh their bottoms off seeing that no nonsense car have AMOLED gauges, but i love it.
You got a build-log/any photos of this? sounds interesting.
Have any product links?
Round displays all the way!
Something you could do with it is to make a film printer. Direct contact print from the display onto a negative.
This would be sweeeet
I also vote for a HUD. there are several projects out there using OLED displays, but the resolution on this is spectacular.
I've got somethin in mind!
Loving the strangr monitor and display content! Would love to see more, even if they arent super high res.
First vid I’m seeing of yours, gr8 content! Keep it up!!
This came to my recommendations so hope your video gets viral :D I was here when there was only 30,5k views!!
Would love a series of let's plays on a tiniest 1080p monitor
I think adding a tiny keeb and mouse combo would be great for this!
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing 😁
Parents: Don't play on your phone the screen is too small
Volt: we don't do that here
I've never heard anyone say don't play your phone because it's too small... But at least you're having fun
If you seen the movie Brazil by Terry Gilliam of Monty Python there's a scene where people work on small screens but use a frensel lens in front of it to enlarge the image. Of course the other option is to use a HD webcam on your PC, to view the tiny screen on your larger screen.
You've GOT to drop this into one of those carousel slide projector. Bonus points if you can make it be one of the sides so you can rotate through a bunch of static images until you get to the 1080p slide.
That is absolutely insane and i love it
subbed and liked cause we need more content like this
i think it will be fun to use on a:
> makeshift digital scope like the product title on 6:34. using a long range camera and this, you can create a scope with a HUD that can change crosshairs, display the distance to the target, night vision, or even add a thermal cam
> i think its brightness and size is kinda low but it may still be possible, you can use this to add a HUD on a scope by placing it facing up and using an angled glass to project the screen to the eyes. you can display many things on it like above or just simply add ammo count.
Epic!!! It really does look good
With the right lenses/reflectors and a pi , this would make a siiiick wearable. Or, you just use it to let ants play some immersive af skyrim
If you used this pixel density, you could build a display with a 55440 x 55440 resolution that you can fit inside an arcade cabinet. 55440 is a highly composite number. This means you could perfectly scale any resolution and aspect ratio without artifacts, or even brute-force emulate a vector display
It would make an excellent viewfinder screen in a raspberry Pi camcorder project, which I’ll affectionately call the PiCorder
Heck yeah. Hmm, I do have a potential project in need of a viewfinder...
First thing I thought, oh a viewfinder monitor, because this one clearly seems to be one, why else would you need such pixel density?
That's either a Sony ECX microdisplay and reference driver board or a clone of one. I have several of these and the optics to make them useable. We make professional and military grade VR and training displays, they look amazing but don't come cheap. And out of all the microdisplays we work with, the Sonys are among the nicest looking.
Someone else mentioned it, but this is just a tad larger than the snall displays used in AR glasses. You could totally set up basic a lens & mirror headset to play DOOM on a hud.
If you reflect it onto a curved mirror and then onto a transparent surface you could make a larger see-through image
I don't know if you look at new comments, but you should TOTALLY put this in an Intel compute stick, and make like a powerful tiny gameboy that can play games like portal and half life
So I read once about a VR display that used a reverse pinhole camera (aremac) to project the image onto the eye. It'd be so cool to make one, you could use a camera mounted directly on the other side to make an AR display.
I'll need to research this. That sounds amazing!
Aww, It's so cute!
It is ideal for camera viewfinder application and of course real stereocular monitor or VR vision set. Imagine creating a whole new instrument that you wear and gives you realtime stereoscopic micro vision for delicate and tiny workspaces like electronics or brain surgery in high definition and ergonomic position. Plus you can record what you exactly seeing.
I neeeeed this.
You can setup a set of primatic mirrors that allows you build a head-mounted display or, if you prefer, a "rPi glass" in order to have a PC always on your face.
So I’m working on diy nvgs and this display would work amazingly if you get a lens that works with it would make the size of the nvgs take up a lot less space
i see you listening to that gaspard auge album! love it
Wow, this is some insane pixel density
Use it in like a model car's entertainment center dashboard screen or headrests. Or make a little model house and put that tv in the living room and have some action figures sitting around watching. lol I could come up with more ideas later, but this popped into my head first.
Damn, was looking forward to some sweet macro shots to show if this was indeed 1080p.
I've been sitting on this display for a month cuz I thought it was fake!, thanks for this truly!
haha, awesome! i'm just like you. no regrets. the obvious candidate is a HUD, maybe you can mimic the vario dual display tech for higher pixel density in the centre, buuuuuuut for a few less obvious suggestions; an AR telescope, a smartwatch formfactor with a foldable/fan out/retractable fresnel magnifier for a screen larger than itself.
how would it look through a crystal ball? maybe a mage's staff with a glass ball in top and just a thin staff coming off it, but when you point the staff directly at someone, they see a massive magnified portal/sauron's eye/or whatever inside it.
or, the same thing with an even larger sphere and a very discreet radial xy mechanism behind it, so the display can be correctly positioned behind the sphere using facial tracking, for it to be magnified for the viewer from all sides. like the rawlemon solar tracker concept in reverse.
Ooh thanks for all of the suggestions. I very intrigued by this staff idea. I'll have to play around with some optics to see how it'll be. I think one of the coolest aspects of this is, even quite magnified, the pixels won't be visible, so it will look great
@@MrVolt absolutely, I was trying to think of things that take advantage of this very special display. For a handheld or something at this size, it might as well be lower res. I think it makes sense to magnify it :-)
This would be perfect for a head up display projection in a car. Not sure how legal it would be, but you could have all the info you would need about everything as you drive.
I'd need to magnify it a fair bit, but that sounds great!
A head or glasses mounted camera viewfinder would be pretty cool. That ribbon cable might make it awkward though
This is perfect for an eye display
I thinkthis could be used for some very low profile FPV or VR goggles, apart from that maybe some lenses and mirrors could be used to project an Image straight into your eye making a real life full HD data overlay possible.
You should definitely buy a second one of these and create your own virtual reality headset.
That is really cool
I am exactly the same with LEDs. I have a metric ton of everything that makes light and I have the lighting capacity of an entire stadium in a tiny bedroom just because I LOVE IT
Have any recommendations for bright high cri lightstrips on the cheap?
That thing has EVF written all over it, except the ribbon is super long. Maybe it's rigged for ports and screen to be on different sides of a prism in some particular application?
The switch lite mini’s looking great!
If you got enough of these teeny tiny displays, do you think the right filters and/or lenses, you could potentially create some sort of specialized display? Be it an ultra high-def display, VR display, or some sort of light-field display?
Flip the screen upside down and 180* degrees around.
Place the brightest white LED you can purchase behind it with a translucent diffuser between them.
Place a lens at its own focal length opposite the LED side of the screen.
The basis of an extremely large projection monitor.
Finally, a monitor that my potato GPU can use without the fan screaming like a jet engine.🤣
A smart watch with this thing would be awesome, it only needs a raspberry pi zero, a battery and a case
Was expecting OG DOOM but this is very impressive
You can make something like google glasses with it. If you put a lens in front of it so you can get it real close to your eye and still see with it. It should make for a good screen for either drone flying. Just gaming, or even night vision with a chip like a imx415 starvis, and have a lensfilter attached you can turn on and off. If you add some 940nm led light and put that in a (adjustable) flashlight. You can have 1080p night vision that is of pretty good quality!
Greetings,
Jeff
You can easily make smart smartglasses with that, albeit you can only see with one eye.
Other than making some kind of scale diorama or device, my thoughts go to "spy tech" stuff: portable surveillance and communication gadgets. Paired-up with a tiny camera, perhaps a watch that you can wirelessly monitor a remote place. More practically, perhaps you could make glasses and/or a helmet with a rear-mounted camera that lets you see what's behind you for navigating traffic. Or make an R/C car/boat/flying vehicle with a POV camera and have the screen either embedded in the controller, or be a separate wearable eyepiece to help navigate an obstacle course or a system of ducts, as in a spy movie.
I wonder if you could get two and prototype some sort of head mounted display or may make a projector.
SICK!
The fact that this is possible is awesome and amazing, yet ridiculous.
Maybe this would be a great smart glasses screen
Seems like a display made for viewfinders in digital cameras. It would be awesome to make it into a set of monitor "glasses"; like a VR headset, but only for one eye, much smaller, and monitor only. Think like the size of Zack Freedman's (also here in the comment section!) teleprompter headset. A monocular gaming monitor.
one more for the HUD "smart glasses"
You should make a 1080p augmented reality eye-piece.
That is so absurdly, stupidly, awesome! 😂
Just left a similar comment on your round display vid, but here, i would go the other way around :
A virtual microscope would be great. Some optics, and this somewhere!
Training for microscopy easily!
Oh, oh, make a DIY smart watch, with some kind of nerdy design, that'd be so cool! :O
I'm all about this!
Hiya Mr.Volt, I had 2 questions for you, because I actually want to maybe consider trying this out.
1. What cables did you use to get the display/monitor setup working? I'm guessing it's Type-C for Power & Micro HDMI to Normal HDMI for the display out?
& 2. What was the small white mount you had used for the display itself? Am very interested in setting it up.
Thanks again for answering my two questions and I hope you have an amazing day! :)
this is actually good for vr headsets
Maybe you could build the world's smallest home cinema?
For ants!
Sound the alarm!
maybe make a stretched optic pipe to make it more dense?
Everyone wants to make it bigger. I like the way you think
this would make a pretty sweet smart watch. Raspberry pi zero + screen + battery + wrist strap = profit?
even better if you got a watch face that looks like a Casio F-91W. It's never been rendered at a higher PPI XD
What about converting it to a pair of glasses, or a monocle to game while on the go?
If I got one of these i would mount it to a pair of glasses so I could look at anything I want privately.
i feel two of those glued into 3d printed goggles are the ticket
I mean, when Doom came out you could reduce the size of the window to make it fun faster, we were playing on a postage stamp size view back then, pre GPUs.
Could you use it in a glasses sort of build? Like google glass.
Can be used for a better VR experience with roper lens configuration
exactly how many levels are we in, watchin youtube, in a window, with picture in picture of him watching a screen so small he has to zoom on in it with another screen to show it encased in....
Nice Riker chair mount there. :)
You're the first to notice the easter egg! You have my respect Voiox
3:40 ..oh to be young again, and able to focus on something that close to your face. Enjoy it while you can. I would need to stack 2 pairs of +2.0 reading glasses to use that at that distance. Very cool little display though :) The future for lightweight VR headsets perhaps?
Just imagine an 8k panel with this pixel density
It would be a 72mm (2.83") display - slightly smaller than a GBA screen.
On the up-side, you'd finally have a handheld screen that can display almost any retro handheld's pixel buffer without much noticable aliasing or blurring. On the down side, there's nothing at that scale that could drive it at 8k.
@@Fordi there are phones out there that can record video in 8k, so why would there not be anything to display 8k?
Likely a viewfinder or used in vr headsets
this was definitely created with VR module in mind
I’ve never seen this many pixels in the same place 🤯
IT really needs to be mounted on glasses as a flip down/drop down display. Its like craze genius guy standard kit. then design it in a Steampunk or cyberpunk look.
Aah, love those wee OLED screens! .. I built a "Smart" dolls-house with actual WiFi that connects to a Rasp-PI with these wee OLED's as a PC monitor and a larger one as a wall mounted TV, all fully functional. You can watch your fav TV show in real time and/or browse the internet, play games (Doom, GTA etc) or watch your fav CZcamsr channel. Working on an Alexa type of interface for turning on/off the lights/RGB lighting, playing music/videos/movies and other virtual assistant stuff. It's quite a cool personal project I'm doing for my wee girl, hehe!
Look at those impressive bezels
I just want a picture of it under a microscope or strong magnifying lens as I find it hard to believe it's actually 1080p
I don't find it that unbelievable, many VR headsets already have higher resolutions than that and since they need optics to adjust FoV and focal distance for comfort, the raw display size doesn't matter too much.
well for the 0,39" display the dot pitch would be 4,5µm
I've ordered one and will test this out on video!
You could place it in a projector and make a big display or use it as a working tv in a doll house
Put a camera om the tip of a gun, zoom it in, and use the monitor to aim at your target :) Great for air-soft snipers !
Can u use it in a kind of smartglasses (u can flip down a screen to view videos or something like that)
A drive-in for a model railroad!
Aw man, if that bezel weren't so big you could make an array of 1156 of these to make the worlds highest resolution 24" monitor! I suppose you could design some fancy optics for the display to still achieve this and eliminate the bezels from the display. Though the $300,000 price tag may still be a small obstacle 😂
Juuuust slightly :)