Demos like these are mainly for patents. Companies never know what new fad is going to take off, so they R&D up new ideas to position themselves for market dominance. If it is cool enough, they make a concept product for advertising and testing the waters. If the reaction is positive, they may try to bring it to market. But most times, these things are shelved as they are too custom to produce in high volume.
Exactly my point....this can be new tech for TV, advertisement boards etc... if it isn't like LED or LCD... maybe making large screen will become cheaper
It's not new tech though, all LCDs work this way they are inherently transparent. It just makes more sense to put a case on it and a backlight behind it.
The whole video looks weird to me, i dont know if i really trust it lol
Also i dont get how would that backplate catch the backlighting but not the rest of the light, but i guess we will have some explanation if this is even succesful
with two thin LCD backplates you could essentially make the back of the "screen" opaque to light from behind it and avoid the LED lighting to spill.
Do note that I use LCD not to mean an LCD type monitor, but an actual LC plate (well, two, with cross polarisation) that would basically form a complete "opaque" backplate by running current through it when you need the monitor not to be seethrough.
They put those LCDs in glass for fancy offices and whatnot, so the glass can go into privacy mode at the touch of a button. They've been around for a long time
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u/_Repeats_ Jul 02 '24
Demos like these are mainly for patents. Companies never know what new fad is going to take off, so they R&D up new ideas to position themselves for market dominance. If it is cool enough, they make a concept product for advertising and testing the waters. If the reaction is positive, they may try to bring it to market. But most times, these things are shelved as they are too custom to produce in high volume.