You Might Need a Microscope When Playing ‘Doom’ on This Incredibly Tiny 0.7-Inch HD Screen

Your smartphone’s display most likely options sufficient decision that it’s inconceivable for the bare eye to make out particular person pixels. But as YouTube’s Mr. Volt discovered, you should purchase screens no bigger than a postage stamp that pack much more pixels, and naturally, the very first thing you’d must do with it’s play Doom.

When we went hands-on (or fingers on) with the Thumby handheld a few months in the past, we assumed that ultra-compact transportable gaming meant settling for easy video games (assume Tetris, Snake, and many others.) on monochromatic black and white screens that felt like we’d set the Wayback Machine to the unique Atari period of gaming. But it apparently doesn’t must be that manner.

Mr. Volt, a self-identified show addict, stumbled throughout a 0.7-inch OLED microdisplay that might nonetheless muster HD resolutions at a full 1920×1080. That’s over two million pixels squeezed onto a display you possibly can simply cowl along with your thumb. At $275 it doesn’t come cheap, however who might resist such a novelty? Thankfully, not Mr. Volt, who ordered one, created a customized laser-cut picket mount to carry it, after which related it to a PC so they might play Doom Eternal on it.

Not solely did the sport show completely on the display, nevertheless it additionally ran at a full 60Hz refresh charge with none seen display tearing or different artifacts that will point out it couldn’t sustain with the gaming motion. But is standing 10-inches from a 0.7-inch display actually a sensible technique to play Doom Eternal? Probably not, and it positively can’t be nice on your eyes. So why does this display even exist?

On the AliExpress website, it’s listed as being designed for head-mounted shows and whereas it would work nice in a type of large, obscenely costly helmets that pilots put on, don’t anticipate one thing like this to facilitate a pair of sensible glasses. Try to slap this on the within of a pair of Ray-Bans and your eyes may have no likelihood of correctly specializing in that display. But perhaps it’s a hacked-together smartwatch ready to occur.