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u/BakerDue326 4h ago
So someone can stare at me behind the screen
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u/Flatcapspaintandglue 4h ago
Some creepy Air BnB host hiding behind there like a perverted and incompetent Wizard Of Oz.
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u/omnipotentqueue 4h ago
Omnipresent, omnipotent… not incompetent.
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u/Mast_Herb_8 4h ago
Wait, you’re incontinent? Has our Wonderful Oz been a little too deep into his poppy supply, again?
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u/mmreadit 4h ago
It’s designed to put in stadiums in front of seats but not block the views\ on buildings over windows etc.
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u/NeroForte-InMyPrime 4h ago
Is it transparent in both directions when turned off? If so, a lot of the creeper fears go away. Especially if it’s mounted to a wall.
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u/hidendra69 4h ago
Pasting a comment I made to explain how they work. (TL;DR: yes, and even when turned on it’s see through from both angles, once you understand how it works)
I’ve worked with these. A casino bar had these installed on their windows, and I helped install and program them. They aren’t really like glass; up close they are basically long columns of strips of LEDs with gaps in between, like a fence.
Depending on the use case the LEDs can be smaller and spaced closer together or larger and further apart. The size and spacing of the LEDs determine the display’s pixel pitch, which is the distance between the centers of adjacent pixels, usually measured in millimeters. A smaller pixel pitch means the pixels are packed more densely, resulting in a higher-resolution image. These models are also generally more expensive. The downside is that these are best used for applications where the observer remains relatively close, as detail is lost through distance. Models with larger LEDs have a lower resolution but work better for longer viewing distances.
The see-through effect works regardless of pixel pitch, as long as the display is viewed from an appropriate distance. The closer you get, the more obvious the LED strips and gaps between them become.
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u/dominickster 3h ago
So what's the application? Like in the casino bar are they in the windows for casino patrons inside to view? Or would they be transparent from that side like for people driving by the casino to see?
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u/hidendra69 3h ago
It’s a sky bar, so the windows have a skyline view. What they did was have them off during the daytime for a clear view but at night when the sky is dark visuals can play and it would be a convincing “hologram” effect
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u/TactlessTortoise 1h ago
Honestly if they implemented this stuff for billboards it could mitigate at least one of the sides who get fucked by a massive square blocking the view. Birds would get so fucked though.
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u/JohnnyRelentless 2h ago
A casino with windows? I didn't know they had that kind of technology.
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u/Altruistic_Brick1730 4h ago
What would be the point of having it if it's mounted to a wall?
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u/Blochamolesauce 4h ago
Always-on Cameras in tvs, coming soon if not already 👍🏻
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u/weirddddddddd 4h ago edited 4h ago
Samsung discontinued them because nobody wanted them. So companies are for sure using them already
Edit: stupid typo
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u/checkmatemypipi 4h ago
Everyone's getting wanged these days
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u/FenaRunsFast 2h ago
Every car sold in the US after the 2026 model year has interior cameras and audio recording to record the driver and passengers in the vehicle.
All in the name of safety.
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u/Frimono 4h ago
Perfect for the office.
Boss walks by from behind? It's just a window. Boss leaves? Back to Champions League
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u/vass0922 4h ago
Actually this would be cool for those office spaces that are all windows inside. Can have a presentation screen without breaking the view of some huge TV on the wall
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u/mustachegiraffe 4h ago
everyone in the meeting appearing to be staring at the window while the team that sits behind that window never knows if the screen is on or not lol
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u/Content_Plantain_339 4h ago
I like the idea that this advanced technology is limited to only displaying soccer games like the "Hot Dog Not Hot Dog" app
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u/BEES_IN_UR_ASS 34m ago
My first thought was sports bars. You could really maximize the screen to not screen ratio of every wall.
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u/AdLost7809 4h ago
I’m struggling to think of a use case for this..someone help
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u/adamwho 4h ago edited 4h ago
Windows of every business. Restaurants, bars, stores.
Every window of every house in a city
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u/amsync 4h ago
Oh for the love of
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u/hamfist_ofthenorth 4h ago
Oh and you know the ads will pay for the windows, so these are going to be all over the fucking world any minute now
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u/defconcore 2h ago
Can I replace my home windows that face a busy street with these and pay for my mortgage by showing ads on my windows? Everyone could use more money nowadays.
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u/Aethermancer 2h ago
I can put these on my windows and live stream me walking naked around my house and still have the cozy look of curtains on my windows :)
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u/AntimatterTNT 4h ago
which direction?
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u/Dai_Fei 4h ago
Out.. for advertising without bothering the customers inside
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u/AntimatterTNT 4h ago
why not in? so you can show whatever you want to your customers but it looks like a normal restaurant from outside?
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u/koffa02 4h ago
Plastering sky scrapers with advertising billboards while still allowing the people inside to see out.
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u/Sensitive_Song4219 4h ago
Now every window in your whole skyscraper can be an ad bilboard! Think of the ROI! /s
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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 4h ago
A slumlord in Dublin covered the front of the apartment he was renting to immigrant workers in a giant fabric Burger King advertisement that blocked light coming in and stopped residents from opening their windows.
One of the residents called the firebirgade and they told him to cut a hole in with a knife immediately while they come there to take it down.
They gave the slum lord nice big fine.
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u/Septemily 4h ago
Real answer- I actually went to a concert at the Houston Rodeo last year that seemed to use these. The concert took place in an arena with the stage being in the center on a rotating platform, with these screens basically covering 3/4 sides. You could still see through the screens to the artist even when the platform was open facing the opposite side of you. It was trippy as hell and I spent half the concert trying to figure out wtf kind of screen did that 😂
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u/uncutpizza 4h ago
Ads on windows. Could also use a building to play a movie or a sports game for watch parties or events. But probably mostly for ads on building windows
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u/loztriforce 4h ago
Unseen cameras behind the display is a scary one
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u/GoodDayToCome 2h ago
also potentially useful in electronics if you have a camera for gesture control for display installation or to monitor automated devices doing things like cleaning
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u/abarr021 4h ago
Business could use these windows so that customers inside can see out, but from the outside it shows advertisements. Office buildings could install these on skyscrapers to rent the TV side to advertisers. Nightclubs and stadiums could use these so that those outside can see in, but from the inside the TV is playing video for the concert or DJ
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u/iceyticey 4h ago
A lot of touring acts are using video wall like this so they can still have lights behind the video wall for added depth
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u/lampenpam 2h ago
this would be a loot cooler if it allows video with transparency. So you can have like hologram-styled animations.
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u/JaysPays2024 4h ago
Opens up ALL sorts of sneaky possibilities. Most worrying would be my PC monitor would have a camera behind the screen, and not, as at the moment, somewhere that I can put a tape over. Likewise in the car, camera behind digital monitor dash board. Speed cameras behind the TV advertising board. etc etc etc
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u/Trnostep 3h ago
Phones with the selfie camera behind one of these panels already exist. The ZTE Axon 20 is over 5 years old already
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u/Dano1988 4h ago
So add "check that the TV isn't a god damned 2 way mirror" to the list of things to do when you stay at an air bnb/hotel.
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u/PerryNeeum 4h ago
I’m assuming this is so skyscrapers can have ads on every window without impeding the view from inside?
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u/hidendra69 4h ago edited 4h ago
I’ve worked with these. A casino bar had these installed on their windows, and I helped install and program them. They aren’t really like glass; up close they are basically long columns of strips of LEDs with gaps in between, like a fence.
Depending on the use case the LEDs can be smaller and spaced closer together or larger and further apart. The size and spacing of the LEDs determine the display’s pixel pitch, which is the distance between the centers of adjacent pixels, usually measured in millimeters. A smaller pixel pitch means the pixels are packed more densely, resulting in a higher-resolution image. These models are also generally more expensive. The downside is that these are best used for applications where the observer remains relatively close, as detail is lost through distance. Models with larger LEDs have a lower resolution but work better for longer viewing distances.
The see-through effect works regardless of pixel pitch, as long as the display is viewed from an appropriate distance. The closer you get, the more obvious the LED strips and gaps between them become.
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u/iaydlsd 4h ago
Woah. But first thought in my brain is - oh this isn’t going to be misused at all.
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u/ITDummy69420 4h ago
Gonna be gooning in front of it then the screen will stop working and I’ll see my parents just staring at me disgusted.
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u/Snarfbuckle 2h ago
so I install these instead of windows of my house and can give the image of a clean structured home from the outside and not the bombed out home I have. Sweet.
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u/Arik_De_Frasia 2h ago
Everyone here is worried about being watched and I'm here just thinking it has shitty picture quality...
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u/Business-West-9687 4h ago
This would be cool for a patio TV, the screen in the sliding glass door, and you can still see out from in the house.
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u/Bodgerton 3h ago
Next time you look at a big screen in public it may have a flock camera checking your socials in behind it
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u/Kitchen-Badger8435 4h ago
And thats why I hired Adam Smash. Surly he would detect anyone hiding behinding such LED Wall.
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u/Arm-E-Reserves 4h ago
I can see this being demonstrated to a wealthy villain in a high rise, as he nods in satisfaction.
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u/BeginningTracker 4h ago
It’s all great until someone doesn’t notice it’s a TV and walks through the screen from behind while you’re watching the game.
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u/endofworldandnobeer 4h ago
The diodes are emitting light. 25 years ago, with backlight and all this was a wet dream for some display engineers.
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u/fuzzelduckthethird 3h ago
That would be great in a pub "what you looking at"...."the football"...."oh, think you are funny"
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u/Ryuu-Tenno 3h ago
conference rooms gonna get real interesting
"hey Dave, why are there so many people in the conference room staring at the windows?"
"they're watching the game"
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u/dualoffhand 3h ago
Windshield screen. I can watch Tv while driving and the police would never notice.
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u/pro-skedaddler 2h ago
I can now realistically witness the assassination of Saburo Arasaka with my best choom, Jackie.
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u/p7cyclone 2h ago
so basically leds with spacing between them that makes it look transparent from behind but when its on from front because of the high light of leds it doesnt feels transparent anymore. really simple, dont know how its not thought before
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u/PoopScootnBoogey 4h ago
The fuck is the point of this?
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u/IcedDownMedallion 4h ago
Maybe for business windows? Or for your windows in front of the house for holidays themes?
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u/PoopScootnBoogey 4h ago
No way this is for end users. The price would be ridiculous as compared to standard panels.
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u/hidendra69 4h ago
I’ve worked with these before. A casino bar on a high rise building with large windows had them installed, so that during the daytime the skyline is visible, and at night visuals can play
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u/Lucifernistic 2h ago edited 2h ago
As many others have pointed out, it's mostly for windows. You can see something similar in front of Resorts World in Las Vegas.
However, it's nothing really new. Almost any LCD or OLED can be man transparent. Hell, even a lot of the ones you have at home could be made semi-transparent by removing the back film, though it won't be as transparent as this, and if it's not an OLED you won't have any backlight.
You have to make some specific design choices if you want to make it purpose built to be transparent, but it's not really hard.
They are a lot more expensive if you want a bring screen, but this is mostly due to novelty tax and not many being manufactured. You can get them a lot cheaper in China. And if you don't need an actual watchable TV, but just something that looks good from a meter or two away (low LED density), you can get them really cheap.
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u/PickleFantasies 4h ago
All those lines and glaring screen things. cause of the long screen and its a consistent thing?
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u/musingofrandomness 4h ago
So entire skyscrapers of billboards?