Here's an idea, overlay glasses.

I did a paper on that actually. Cool stuff.

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>> ^gwiz665:
Here's an idea, overlay glasses.


There have been some OLED glasses created, though I couldn't find enough information about their viability. I'd think that focus would be a problem with something so close to the eye, but perhaps they already solved that.

There have also been some prototype contact lens displays produced, but I don't know what methods they use to produce the image.

WE LIVE IN THE FUTURE!!!

is there any practical use to having a notebook like this except that it is mind-blowingly awesome?

Dude, that's so annoying, the glare, it pains me. Also, does that mean that people behind the screen can see what you're doing? Does anyone consider the usefulness of the stuff they make?

As for the glasses, you are right, it would be difficult to focus both on the image plane, as well as the objects at a distance. One possibility would be to put an artificial aperture over the eye in order to create a "Maxwellian View". In other words, you can make the eye more like a perfect pinhole camera creating theoretically infinite depth of field. The only problem with that solution is that you lose a lot of light, and would need a very bright display (not to mention a very bright world, if you would also like to continue seeing that).

The glare really does kill these screens for me. It has become rather difficult now to find a real laptop these days without the "SuperBright" (or some other trade name for glossy) screens that are annoying unless its a dark room. It's like we went from shiny screen CRTs to matte LCDs back to shiny LCDs now. I still use an older LCD flat panel because of this.

The reasoning supposedly is that the traditional matte style reduced the contrast ratio for LCDs but here I don't see why not.

Transparency would be annoying if I can't control it. I rarely use them in my GUI stuff too.

Presumably it doesn't do dark colors very well, and surely not black at all, so I really don't see it working as a useful general purpose PC screen. If I could have this for all the windows on my house though, that'd be great. I'm sure you could find a lot of ways to really freak out the neighbors.

I've always wanted a television that became a mirror or an actual painting when you turned it off. I imagine that would be difficult to do though, arranging it so that whatever was behind the screen became black when it's shut off. I find electronics really screw up the aesthetics of a room. This is definitely a step towards that direction.

Some time ago I saw windows that became opaque white somehow when you flipped a switch. If you could do that in black and combine the two, that might be something.

He did say the screen was on the notebook for demonstration purposes. I very much doubt that Samsung is aiming this at general purpose PC use, and the examples he gives seem more appropriate - widgets on your windshield, office window etc. Ie context relevant information.

Overlay on your windshield seems the most exciting route. A GPS currently draws a coloured line to your destination on a small screen map; imagine if it did this over the actual road in front of you...

I want this as my car window! Imagine your GPS system being printed over it to indicate locations and directions... Customized HUD!

First thing I thought, "It's what, 640x480?" What a crap resolution.

Also, having that in front of your car window is like having someone fluttering their hands in front of your face while you're driving.

Make for a simpler teleprompter though... video conferencing where you're not seemingly staring at the person's chest/over their head/off into space.

Now it would be interesting if you could have background picture with full alpha channel displayed I guess. But this simply looks like someone has removed the backplate from the screen, i.e. its just broken.

This is an OLED technology demo, this is not a omen of annoying see through screens.

Well then everyone will be able to see me looking up porn now!

>> ^deathcow:
This is an OLED technology demo, this is not a omen of annoying see through screens.


And that's a very good thing, because that looks like ASS.

It really looks like they stripped a display down to only the screen and led membrane, then turned the contrast up to about 9000%.

goddamn this so infuriates me
EVERY SINGLE LCD SCREEN IS TRANSPARENT
and we've had those since the eighties
they just have a white plastic sheet behind it to catch the light from the edges
oleds are damn cool for a number of reasons but dammit, this is not one of them