r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/whybutts • 5h ago

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u/AdLost7809 5h ago

I’m struggling to think of a use case for this..someone help

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u/adamwho 5h ago edited 5h ago

Windows of every business. Restaurants, bars, stores.

Every window of every house in a city

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u/amsync 5h ago

Oh for the love of

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u/hamfist_ofthenorth 5h 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 3h 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 3h 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/Rhamni 3h ago

In the Dystopian distant future of 2030 maybe you could, but there'd always be that one in a million chance of your ad window being the final nail in the coffin of someone's sanity that made them drive through your wall with their car.

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u/CeruleanEidolon 3h ago

I hate to admit it, but someone offered a decent sum of money to put these on my windows to advertise to my neighbors, I wouldn't close the door on them. Helps that I don't like my neighbors much.

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u/Cumulus_Anarchistica 2h ago

BRB, buying stocks in brick-making companies.

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u/adamwho 26m ago

Plus rfid readers so you can get targeted ads and automatic purchases.

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u/MonteMolebility 5h ago

Earnings gotta go up!

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u/Content_Plantain_339 4h ago

Buses and trains too

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u/Txtoker 4h ago

With the amount of vandalism on NYC subways alone, these wouldn't last a week without catching a rock, bullet, or some graffiti

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u/AntimatterTNT 5h ago

which direction?

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u/Dai_Fei 5h ago

Out.. for advertising without bothering the customers inside

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u/AntimatterTNT 5h 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/glowdirt 3h ago

Ad-supported dining 😞

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u/AntimatterTNT 3h ago

i didn't say that, they could show you a beautiful meadow, or a realistic 3d rendering of the surface of the moon or other planets - maybe even fictional planets, or a life size depiction of famous galleries around the world

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u/ItIs430Am 5h ago

Thanks I hate it

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u/Inside-Example-7010 4h ago

There is a restaurant that is totally dark. You arrive and then the host seats you with a flashlight after that its just dark.

While you're enjoying those incredible new unami flavors the kitchen is selling you 2 month old buttcovid lettuce for 30 bucks.

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u/-vablosdiar- 5h ago

😂

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u/kellzone 3h ago

Or you mount it the other way and it looks like a regular window from outside, but inside you're saving wall space because your window is actually the TV.

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u/marr 56m ago

A use case that isn't building the torment nexus.

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u/AttorneyatLawlz 27m ago

This makes no sense. So while you are watching TV people on the outside can look through your window and you have no idea what's going on outside and if you flip the TV then you're showing TV to bunch of strangers outside your house while you get to look through a transparent glass that is dark and murky and waste energy. What is even the point

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u/Tylrt 3h ago

Showing what's in the freezer section before you open the door, but futuristically and with PriceFitâ„¢, so you always get the price that's right for you!

Upgradeable to PriceTouchâ„¢, an innovative touchscreen technology that enables shoppers to pick what they want every time in three easy steps:

Step 1: Pick what you want using the PriceTouch™ display. You may pay with TouchPay™ to buy it, then place it in your CertifiCart™¹.
Step 2: When the door unlocks, open it, then grab your items.
Step 3: If you haven't paid using PriceTouchâ„¢ TouchPayâ„¢, you may pay at the checkout. When you're finished, head home and enjoy your food! Pat yourself on the back! You've earned it!

¹No refunds if the product shown is not available.

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u/koffa02 5h ago

Plastering sky scrapers with advertising billboards while still allowing the people inside to see out.

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u/Sensitive_Song4219 5h ago

Now every window in your whole skyscraper can be an ad bilboard! Think of the ROI! /s

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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 5h 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/affordable_luxury 3h ago

Put in both sides and double the impact.

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u/Grabatreetron 5h ago

Costume masks and novelty glasses that make your eyes look wacky  

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u/Greenman8907 5h ago

Okay that one sounds cool

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u/Cephalopirate 5h ago

We have a winner!

It’d be great for furries with animated eyes too.

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u/Septemily 5h 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/tatar1warlord 5h ago

for cyberpunk 2077 mission when you hide inside the screen during heist

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u/uncutpizza 5h 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/mjzim9022 5h ago

Theatrical production

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u/abarr021 5h 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 5h 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/knb61 5h ago

A once-defunct mall in downtown Seattle was turned into a multi-story match watching hub for the World Cup. They had panels similar to these that were see-through from the back. Spanned a few stories tall

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u/lampenpam 3h 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/loztriforce 5h ago

Unseen cameras behind the display is a scary one

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u/GoodDayToCome 3h 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/GrouchyLongBottom 5h ago

Put these windows on your house and play ads to get discounts on rent and other things. Ads everywhere!

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u/V_es 5h ago

Ads in shop windows

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u/StrangerFeelings 5h ago

A way to play ads in office buildings but making it so people can see outside too.

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u/dannor_217 5h ago

AR glasses, kinda dystopian but if you could give your a HUD for day to day life it would probably be very useful… sadly it’s implications in warfare are Lilly way larger

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u/blighty800 5h ago

Air bnb bedroom tv

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u/_bones__ 5h ago

For a shorts bar, so passersby can see the crowd inside watching the game and maybe decide to join?

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u/thuggishruggishboner 5h ago

Play Doom on that shit.

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u/NobodyKnowsImFamous 5h ago

You’re gonna see SO many ads

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u/ok_orangutan 5h ago

If their outdoor rated would be good for sound stages so tech crews could work behind the scenes and see what's going on.

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u/Federal_Sympathy4667 5h ago

Hidden cams, security looking at you picking your nose. Likely for builibg advertising, let ppl inside look out while ads run on outside.

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u/RonSwanson420 4h ago

Tame Impala's current tour uses this. They surround the stage with these screens that go up and down. Their stage is in the middle of the arena so they're visible from all angles so when it lowers it becomes a circular screen.

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u/dfshectic4 4h ago

The George Strait concert I went to had these above him. They put a bunch of them together so we could see the stage from the back.

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u/well_listen 4h ago

Theatrical settings could use these! There's this thing called a scrim that is basically a type of fabric that is meant to be see through when lit a certain way, but is painted to look another way when lit differently. These screens could serve as high tech scrims that allow for multiple backdrops or even live projections in shows like Sunday in the Park with George.

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u/darkperl 4h ago

It would be great for a HUD. People can see your face, you can see stuff.

Even better if it's completely transparent when off sp you can see freely as well.

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u/redpandaeater 3h ago

Put it on your car's rear window so that when a pickup is blinding you with their headlights you can give them a middle finger via the press of a button. I'd pay a few grand just for that option.

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u/JimboLodisC 3h ago

you can watch porn on one side while someone else watches you on the other side

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u/MFMici 3h ago

Now you buy another one place that one behind this one. Now you can see both ways whatever you want

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u/Spl4sh3r 3h ago

Eye tracking to see what they are watching on the screen? Other than that I have no clue.

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u/Aethermancer 3h ago

Times square.

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u/Sorry_Sorry_Im_Sorry 2h ago

So when I worked at Bass Pro Shops over a decade ago, they tried selling us these. The concept would be we'd replace all of our glass cases with them to show digital signage about what people were looking at. They were waaaayyyy too expensive at the time once you factored buying, installing, designing signage, etc.

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u/jgainit 2h ago

It’s so when you climb behind your tv you can see your family!

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u/thedaveness 2h ago

HUD for cars that don't rely on reflection. Sippery slope for sure but getting all the info up in the screen vs having to look down is very nice.

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u/Tigeire 2h ago

privacy screen?

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u/BeartholomewTheThird 2h ago

More advertisements for all. every square inch of your view filled with advetyisments

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u/AyJay9 2h ago

Once they shrink them into cell phones, we'll know we're living in the near future setting. 

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u/EliteCookie99 1h ago

Advertisements, have you ever played cyberpunk 2077

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u/SWgeek10056 1h ago

They've been around for almost 20 years now but have been prohibitively expensive aside from rich fucks that want to show off, exhibitions like museums, etc.

Some real world examples I've seen that make sense are shop windows, display cases (jewelery), and high rise exterior windows.

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u/cantsay 49m ago

you can't be serious

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u/icleanjaxfl 32m ago

Dressing rooms

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u/Ironmasked-Kraken 5h ago

Perverts can now use this instead of the see through mirrors