I had an idea recently about creating slight-3D displays by stacking layer of LCD panels that give some impression of depth when moving your head, this might make that feasible.
You might find "tensor displays" interesting.
Transparent OLEDs
41–50 of 168 posts
Re: Transparent OLEDs
#42Do they emit light in all directions?
Re: Transparent OLEDs
#43I'm excited for transparent OLED's simply so that laptops and monitors will be able to put the webcam behind the display, ~1/3 from the top. Then videoconferencing software can automatically move the image of the person you're talking to so their eyes are roughly centered on that point. And finally everyone gets to make direct eye contact again!
The thought of a webcam constantly pointing at users has already creeped them out enough to make camera covers a popular item. Imagine how well that segment of the population would react to a hidden camera...
Re: Transparent OLEDs
#44I'm excited for transparent OLED's simply so that laptops and monitors will be able to put the webcam behind the display, ~1/3 from the top. Then videoconferencing software can automatically move the image of the person you're talking to so their eyes are roughly centered on that point. And finally everyone gets to make direct eye contact again!
I think that’s a poor approach. While you end up with gaze more in the center of the display, you don’t always have a face directly centered. This alleviates some of the problem, but doesn’t remove it. A better approach that I’ve always wanted is to have four cameras on the corners of the display that generate a real time photogrametric projection of your face. This would mean not only would your camera view be dead…
Or you can just look at the camera instead of the screen
Re: Transparent OLEDs
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, I worked on a video game that was in the near future and had transparent and semi-transparent screens everywhere. I spent a lot of time adding new rendering features to the engine that did proper transparency sorting, blur/darkening passes and helping artists tweak materials to make them more readable. At multiple points in the project I wanted the art direction to switch to opaque screens. Not only because of t…
Tangentially related, the "futuristic" displays in video games and movies and TV often look worse than what we'd see in real life. Sometimes it's a hologram, which would be cool even if the fidelity were a bit shit, but it's interesting that art directors make them pretty bad looking even in fiction, presumably as a cue to the viewer that it's a hologram. Any fiction that portrays holograms as opaque and convincing u…
I was particulary offended by this in the recent Star Trek: Picard.
In previous shows the Federation has demonstrated the ability to create totally flawless and interactable holograms.
Yet somehow in this show everyone has switched over to glowly flickering interfaces hovering over your desk.
In the headquarters of Star Fleet, a giant hologram of a star ship is in the atrium, and it glitches out for a moment as the camera looks at it just to let the viewer know it's a hologram.
Not only is there no reason for holograms to glitch out all the time assuming that the technology could be created, but this TV series has already demonstrated their ability to do this much better!
Re: Transparent OLEDs
#46Are we finally going to get the transparent displays from sci-fi movies?
Re: Transparent OLEDs
#47For a long long time, science fiction movies have used transparent displays to seem more "futuristic." However, actual transparent displays have been underwhelming in practice. This technology is being use by Xaomi to make a "transparent TV"[1] which in theory you will be able to buy. (I realize that not all of these sorts of announcements survive until actual product shipment). It will be interesting to see one of t…
> science fiction movies have used transparent displays
I always figured this was for cinematographic reasons. It lets you see what’s on the screen and the character’s face simultaneously.
Re: Transparent OLEDs
#48I'm excited for transparent OLED's simply so that laptops and monitors will be able to put the webcam behind the display, ~1/3 from the top. Then videoconferencing software can automatically move the image of the person you're talking to so their eyes are roughly centered on that point. And finally everyone gets to make direct eye contact again!
The thought of a webcam constantly pointing at users has already creeped them out enough to make camera covers a popular item. Imagine how well that segment of the population would react to a hidden camera...
I think one solution would be like a purism laptop (and upcoming phone) - hardware switches (they one for camera/mic, one for bt/wifi)
Re: Transparent OLEDs
#49I'm excited for transparent OLED's simply so that laptops and monitors will be able to put the webcam behind the display, ~1/3 from the top. Then videoconferencing software can automatically move the image of the person you're talking to so their eyes are roughly centered on that point. And finally everyone gets to make direct eye contact again!
If you don't want to wait for eye-contact and have two monitors, you can place the webcam between the monitors and center your conversation-partner's image/window on the camera. Works great.
That's a great idea, thanks!
Re: Transparent OLEDs
#50For a long long time, science fiction movies have used transparent displays to seem more "futuristic." However, actual transparent displays have been underwhelming in practice. This technology is being use by Xaomi to make a "transparent TV"[1] which in theory you will be able to buy. (I realize that not all of these sorts of announcements survive until actual product shipment). It will be interesting to see one of t…
I think it would be nice to have a transparent oled + e-ink display. Sort of an indoor-outdoor display.