UC Irvine builds world's highest resolution video screen

Researchers at UC Irvine in Irvine, California claim to have built the world’s highest resolution video screen.

The screen measures 23 foot by 9 foot and displays in two million pixels, providing a picture around a 100 times clearer than current High-Definition sets.

Joerg Meyer, a UC Irvine professor of computer graphics and visualisation, told the Los Angeles Times that the display has higher resolution than the human retina can see.

The screen, which was built with a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, is comprised of rows of linked monitors on a wall. Each monitor displays part of the overall image.

The screen has a range of potential applications, and has already been used to study changes in the cells of people with medical conditions such as schizophrenia and cancer.

It also has the potential to be used by the emergency services and has been used to spot trapped cars and fallen trees in aerial photos of the devastation created by Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast.

Researchers also believe that the technology could eventually be used to provide an entertainment focal point in the home.