Imagine a display as flexible as plastic wrap—so malleable you could stretch it over your face in a futuristic impression of expert Saran-wrapping serial killer Dexter. LG is supposing the future will be full of such flexible displays, and its latest rendition of the concept screen is capable of stretching up to 50% of its Read more about LG’s New Stretchable Screen Can Morph like a Piece of Laffy Taffy[…]
[…] At the time of this article’s publication, our 100 TVs had been running for over 10,000 hours since the launch of the test, which represents roughly six years of use in a typical U.S. household […] The results of this investigation are unequivocal: edge-lit TVs are inherently prone to significant durability issues, including warped reflector Read more about Thin edge-lit LCD TVs Break Faster Under Prolonged Use: tested for 10k hours[…]
The LG55UH850V, a 4K is mentioned online as having a framerate of 120Hz at specification sites on Google LG’s Finnish website puts the framerate at a staggering 200Hz So does the South African website – this also boasts a “Billion Rich Colors” – color depth is only 8 bit. After having upgraded to a graphics Read more about So… LG lies about TV Framerates on their site[…]
[…] The C SEED N1 TV unveiled at CES 2024 is now making global waves. This revolutionary device boasts a vivid 4K resolution, 165, 137, or 103-inch Micro LED screen size, and 180-degree rotation- and it’s just the tip of the iceberg. […] this is the first unfolding TV for indoors. [,,,] Source: The C Read more about The C SEED Unfolding TV[…]
Samsung showcased its transparent MicroLED display side-by-side next to transparent OLED and transparent LCD models to really highlight the differences between the tech. Compared to the others, not only was the MicroLED panel significantly brighter, it also featured a completely frameless design and a more transparent glass panel that made it easier to see objects Read more about Samsung debuts transparent MicroLED screen[…]
LG announced a new transparent TV at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. Gizmodo’s staff got to check it out in person, and it’s gorgeous. LG claims this is the world’s first wireless transparent OLED TV and is calling it the Signature OLED T (T for transparent). The OLED T is merely Read more about LG has a Fully Transparent TV[…]
Here’s a fun tidbit — Linux is the only OS to support a diagonal monitor mode, which you can customize to any tilt of your liking. Latching onto this possibility, a Linux developer who grew dissatisfied with the extreme choices offered by the cultural norms of landscape or portrait monitor usage is championing diagonal mode Read more about Linux is the only OS to support diagonal PC monitor mode — dev champions the case for 22-degree-rotation computing[…]
Windows Mixed Reality is heading to a farm upstate. Microsoft is shutting down the platform, according to an official list of deprecated Windows features. This includes the garden variety Windows Mixed Reality software, along with the Mixed Reality Portal app and the affiliated Steam VR app. The platform isn’t gone yet, but Microsoft says it’ll Read more about Microsoft is killing Windows mixed reality platform[…]
[…] IDTechEx’s report ‘Micro-LED Displays 2024-2034: Technology, Commercialization, Opportunity, Market and Players‘ explores various angles of Micro-LED displays. […] MicroLED displays are built on the foundation of self-emissive inorganic LEDs, acting as subpixels. These LEDs are usually in the micrometer range, without package nor substrate, and therefore are transferred in a way different from traditional Read more about Micro-LED Displays @IDTechEx Report[…]
Lenovo’s next 27-inch 4K monitor is unlike any display it has released before. Featuring a lenticular lens and real-time eye-tracking, it’s a 3D monitor that doesn’t require any glasses. Other companies are already pushing stereoscopic products, but Lenovo’s ThinkVision 27 3D Monitor, announced at the IFA conference today, takes the glasses-free experience to a bigger Read more about Lenovo’s new 27-inch, 4K monitor offers glasses-free 3D[…]
The Rollable Flex is an interesting new flexible screen from Samsung Display that can be unrolled from just 49mm to 254.4mm, over five times its length. The display is being shown off at the annual Display Week trade show in Los Angeles alongside another Samsung panel that the company says offers fingerprint and blood pressure Read more about Samsung Display demos long rollable and a health-sensing OLED[…]
Samsung has unveiled a new display technology that could lead to new biometric and health-related capabilities in future phones and tablets. The tech giant has debuted what it calls the Sensor OLED Display that can read your fingerprints regardless of what part of the screen you touch at this year’s SID Display Week in LA. Read more about Samsung’s new Sensor OLED display can read fingerprints anywhere on the screen[…]
Swiping and tapping on flat screens is something we’ve learned to deal with in smartphones, tablets and other touchscreen gizmos, but it doesn’t come close to the ease of typing on a hardware keyboard or playing a game with a physical controller. To that end, researchers Craig Shultz and Chris Harrison with the Future Interfaces Read more about This OLED screen can fill with liquid to form tactile buttons | Engadget[…]
In VR, a blink can be a window of opportunity to improve the user’s experience. We’ll explain how in a moment, but blinks are tough to capitalize on because they are unpredictable and don’t last very long. That’s why researchers spent time figuring out how to induce eye blinks on demand in VR (video) and Read more about Triggering Blinks i n VR, a useful thing to do[…]
[…] Nanosys, a company whose quantum dot technology is in millions of TVs, offered to show me a top-secret prototype of a next-generation display. Not just any next-gen display, but one I’ve been writing about for years and which has the potential to dethrone OLED as the king of displays. […] Electroluminescent quantum dots. These are Read more about Quantum Dots / NanoLED Is the Next-Generation Display Technology[…]
Setting up a new TV? Ask any videophile or home theater nerd and they’ll probably tell you to set your picture mode to the movie/cinema option (or whatever’s closest on your particular TV) and leave it there. Traditionally, this has been the most color accurate option and leans toward a pleasant, warm white balance instead Read more about LG allows you to choose picture mode by comparing pictures[…]
Asus announced an upcoming feature that allows users to view and work with content in 3D without wearing 3D glasses. Similar technology has been used in a small number of laptops and displays before, but Asus is incorporating the feature for the first time in OLED laptop screens. Combined with high refresh rates, unique input Read more about Asus brings glasses-free 3D to OLED laptops | Ars Technica[…]
Despite VR having been hyped up for the last couple of years, not very much has happened in the past two years. The hardware has not really refreshed, but this year at least one new exciting entry has come in and another is promised. Search results of reviews usually have the same group of suspects Read more about State of Gaming VR for PC in 2022 – and other things the sites don’t tell you[…]
LG is working to bring the flexibility of OLEDs to smaller devices, and today revealed the world’s first 12-inch panel that’s both flexible and stretchable, like a giant piece of rubber band, improving its ability to survive wear and tear. Image: LG The 12-inch panel can display full-color RGB images (LG doesn’t specify exactly how Read more about LG’s Stretchable bendable scrunchable Screen Promises a Future of Shatter-Proof Tech[…]
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/google-starts-testing-holographic-video-chats-at-real-offices/ Google’s Project Starline, a holographic chat booth being installed in some early-access test offices this year. Google Project Starline, Google’s experimental technology using holographic light field displays to video chat with distant co-workers, is moving out of Google’s offices and into some real corporate locations for testing starting this year. Google’s Project Starline tech, Read more about Google Starts Testing Holographic Video Chats at Real Offices[…]
Luis Eduardo Garrido couldn’t wait to test out his colleague’s newest creation. Garrido, a psychology and methodology researcher at Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra in the Dominican Republic, drove two hours between his university’s campuses to try a virtual reality experience that was designed to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder and different types of phobias. But Read more about Cybersickness Could Spell an Early Death for the Metaverse and Virtual Reality[…]
Researchers from Stanford University and Nvidia have teamed up to help develop VR glasses that look a lot more like regular spectacles. Okay, they are rather silly looking due to the ribbons extended from either eye, but they’re much, much flatter and compact than your usual goggle-like virtual reality headsets today. “A major barrier to Read more about Researchers find way to shrink a 3D holographic VR headset down to normal glasses size using pancake lenses and a waveguide[…]
Imagine if you, me and a dozen other people were standing in a room staring at the same screen—but the screen showed something different to each of us, simultaneously. A California-based tech company called Misapplied Sciences has made this possible. They’ve developed a “parallel reality” display “enabled by a new pixel that has unprecedented capabilities,” Read more about “Parallel Reality” Display Shows Different Info to Different People at Same Time[…]
[…] The most practical use for transparent LCDs has been in hospitals, where rooms with large windows can be made private at the push of a button that causes the panels to instantly become opaque. µProto「Wipe Fake」 That’s presumably what inspired this team of designers from IMG SRC, who in just two months created the Read more about Transparent Display Hacked to Look Like Shower Door[…]
[Blair Nearl] has been working on an information database for artists and hackers – a collection of non-conventional display technologies available to us. We’ve covered this repository before, six years ago – since then, it’s moved to a more suitable platform, almost doubled in size, and currently covers over 40+ display technology types and related Read more about Survey of Alternative Displays[…]