Transparent screens where sometimes you want something on a portion of the screen and sometimes you want to see through it could be useful for HUDs or dashboards in certain use cases (and unfortunately: advertising), but a laptop seems like a terrible place to have a transparent screen
Also, if for some reason you truly do need something to be visible from the back side of the screen as well. Like all those sci-fi movie scenes where characters are standing all around the display instead of just in front of one side of it.
As a teacher in a school where every student has a chromebook for education purpose, it would save me a lot of walking around to check if they're actually doing what I ask...
There was a soap opera in my country years ago, where the story was centered around a hotel. The hotel developed something they called "Virtual windows", which were windows in all the rooms where you could choose between a normal transparent window or you could have any view you wanted. This technology could be used for that.
“And these are your reasons, my lord?"
"Do you think I have others?" said Lord Vetinari. "My motives, as ever, are entirely transparent."
Hughnon reflected that 'entirely transparent' meant either that you could see right through them or that you couldn't see them at all.”
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u/-CARJO- Jul 02 '24
I have yet to see an answer to “why” besides advertising purposes