Samsung’s Odyssey+ VR headset claims 1233 PPI user-perceived resolution

Leaked two months ago by the FCC, Samsung’s HMD Odyssey+ Windows Mixed Reality headset became official today with a somewhat unexpected feature: a “user-perceived resolution” of 1,233 pixels per inch, double the apparent detail of the original Odyssey. Of course, there’s a catch.

While the new headset preserves the original Odyssey’s $500 price tag and basic design, it ups the ante with one key feature: an “anti-Screen Door Effect technology that effectively delivers over twice the pixel count of the display resolution.” Samsung explains that it has solved the screen door effect — a black grid visible between pixels — by applying a light diffuser to the grid. The diffuser uses ambient light from adjacent pixels to make the black lines “near impossible to see.” Consequently, Samsung claims that Odyssey+ doubles the perceived pixel density of its twin 3.5-inch 616PPI AMOLED displays, though they each remain at the same 1440 x 1600 resolutions found in the first Odyssey.