in the world smart tvs manufacturers, for example 3D TVs or curved models.

One of the latest iterations in this trend are televisions with clear panels. Create images on a translucent page This allows you to see what is behind the screen. They are magnificent and surprising at first glance, but their real benefits, especially for the home consumer, have yet to be found.

Brands such as LG, Samsung or Panasonic have been presenting their proposals for a new sector at fairs in recent years. creates too much expectation both inside and outside the house.

Another great one, Xiaomi announced its launch last year. My TV LUX Transparent EditionTransparent television version for the “masses” based on OLED technology, with a 55 inch and 120 Hz panel. It promised a lot, but in the end the interest of traditional users does not seem to have prompted the invention.

The technology is already here, but we don’t know what to do with it.

The key question of the matter is simple but still has no clear answer:Why would we want to hang a transparent TV on the wall? Or will you put it on the living room furniture if there is nothing interesting to see behind it? Probably not at all.

Transparent teles is not for that, because its main purpose is not to watch movies, series DTT nor play a few games on the console, instead show overlay information in specific use cases, most of which have yet to be defined.

Some ideas on this subject have been given in some presentations in recent years. For example, at the Panasonic Convention, the Japanese manufacturer told us about its intention to install such translucent screens or panels. in the kitchen and living room for example, it is placed in furniture as a protective glass in a display case. They were the most striking and promising, but for now the utility and relevance of the proposal seems to have waned.

LG is another big player in this new trend and has been offering touchscreen models in recent years. Transparent OLED Touchscreen. In this way, it is possible to have a more advanced and easy-to-control interface without the need to use a remote control or mobile phone. But again, real applications are yet to come.

From shop windows to virtual fish tanks through fake windows

Theoretically, this transparent display technology is ideal for providing a graphical interface to household appliances such as: Refrigerators with translucent doors design hoods, augmented reality mirrors that allow food to be seen and show superimposed information, multimedia glass tables and showcases for the living room and other types of connected objects that have yet to come.

In fact, LG is holding competitions for designers from around the world to contribute potential ideas. transparent OLED panels, something they collected in the latest edition of the OLED Go, for example! where ideas are as strange as a screen simulating being a being fireplace with virtual fireTVs that function as screens and others that can be rotated and display different superimposed information.

An even more recent example now comes from the Japanese creative agency Image Source (IMG SRC), which, similar to LG, launched an ideas competition a few months ago. transparent screensthis time with the most curious result.

For example, among the most absurd proposals we find a transparent panel that simulates being human. window full of fog and moisture. When we run our hands over it, we remove that moisture just like in the real world, and even dripping water droplets are simulated.

They’re also working on a genre virtual fish tank or terrarium where aquariums and environments are represented by animals that act like they are in the real world but we can zoom in at any time and change the features, names etc. We can click on them to view additional information about them.

In the end, they created a genre. communication table between several users divided by a transparent TV, on which different information, such as the mental state of the interlocutor, is superimposed.

As we can see, the offers at the moment are very spectacular, but their real benefit in a real home It remains to be seen what constitutes a traditional user. Will this transparent TV trend be the new curvature of this decade’s screens? We’ll see.