Thursday, 20 August 2015
Samsung has unveiled a pair of new 55-inch OLED displays
— one of which is transparent, and the other functions as a mirror.
Both, the company says, can do wonders for the worlds of retail and
advertising, but let's face it, they also look very, very cool. While
mirrored and transparent LCD displays have been around for a while now,
Samsung says its OLED technology (the first of its kind) offers better
contrast and viewing angles. The company says that while the transparent
displays might be used for (slightly dull) tasks like better signage,
mirrored OLED panels could be combined with Intel's 3D RealSense cameras
to create virtual changing rooms. We imagine the same technique could
be applied to ads too, although a world full of shop fronts that dress
you up as you walk by sounds just a tad hellish to us.
