Lmao of course it is. I just used a device with huge bezels for work. When I pulled out my iPhone it was insane how much more immersive the screen is.
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You have to be joking. This is a rather silly notion to say that having a thin 1/4" black area around the screen is in any way a detriment to your using a device. You have to be very young.
As a younger person, I will say the immersion of the 15 Pro's screen vs old SE 3rd Gen is VERY noticeable even after 4 months. I am still wowed by the difference when switching between them. However, I forgot my 15P even had bezels due to my semi-thick case. So I think only people without cases or with really thin cases will actually notice what bezel there is being removed.
I definitely think that nowadays the word “immersive” is overrated.
And honestly, I want to be as “not immersed” in the phone, distraction, addictions and the Apps and all of that….as possible
To quote The Princess Bride, "I don't think that word means what you think it means".
I wouldn’t go as far as to say the word is overrated.
Misused, misapplied, possibly even redefined for the sake of marketing, on the other hand?
Absolutely.
You don’t understand what ‘immersive’ means. That’s okay.
Let me try to help you out:
When humans look at a display, they are looking at a 3D object in their perception. Humans perceive depth thanks to the dynamics of light, the eye, and the fact that we have 2 eyes.
When a human sees a screen which is producing light to display a coherent image, that display has classically been bordered be a black or other-colored bezel, or box (like old console TVs), etc. optimally, due to the fact that we perceive depth, the coherent image produced by a screen is far more visually immersive to us if we reduce the size of the border around the screen.
This is why humans have continually reduced the bezels of TVs and any other devices with a screen, like a smartphone. Ideally we want a device that has a screen with no border around the screen at all. When you do this, the image is more immersive because the entirety of the object is only producing an image and your brain is still interpreting depth so it sees that the display is the primary focus and when you then have only coherent screen information being seen, it becomes more prominent in the human mind. There is no distracting bezel.
Now you know.
You don’t understand what immersion means.
A TV with zero bezel is immersive. There is no such TV as yet.
A smartphone with zero bezel is immersive. There is no such smartphone as yet.
The ultimate goal is to make the object only display light when viewed face-on from the front. Due to human perception of depth, that device is far more immersive. There is zero distraction around its border.
https://newatlas.com/home-entertainment/world-first-transparent-4k-oled-tv-lg/
LG seems to have made a bezel-less tv.
I know what immersive means, none of what you describe has anything to do with the size of bezels. When most of the people in a thread are laughing at you, that should clue you in that you simply do not understand what you are saying.
Now you know.
There really is too much bezel i think we can all agree, its time for a reduction. By time iPhone 18 launches i want it to be so much more immersive and all screenier that it looks like blue bubbles and animojis are just appearing on my hand.
We all know what it means
Words have definitions and meaning
A smaller bezel has essentially nothing to do with it
I'll give you an example in Apple land
If you want something immersive ... strap on an AVP
That is true immersion
I suppose that this bread without crust (bezels) is a much more immersive bread…. right?
I wanted to post more that what I could at the time. Comparing an iphone to an ipad, you could make the immersive statement and we could agree. However your statement saying the phone has too much bezel and reducing it making it immersive is where the statement becomes comical. The problem is with the scale of the topic. If you reduced the bezel you would gain about .025 inches of screen, that is why we are all laughing about it.
Not bezel less considering you can clearly see a black bezel around the screen. Moreover, that is ****ing hideous. It looks like it’s in a cheap standing closet.
I actually just feel bad for you now. You don’t understand immersive even when I typed a detailed report to you.
Enjoy bud
You are all exceedingly confused. You think bezel free is the definition of immersive.
No.
The bezel free screen provides a person more immersive experience, it isn’t the definition of immersive.
buddy a bezel free screen offers maximal immersion for a phone or TV or any other device with a screen.
So you’re saying the best immersion screen is a screen that has no bezels. Now I know why I can’t be immersed at a cinema with a 22 metre screen. It’s because of those #$&@ curtains!
Your argument is BS. You can be immersed in a black and white cathode ray tube tv box as much as you can with a version 1 iPad and a 0 bezel phone.
Immersion has nothing to do with bezels, it’s about no distractions from the content.
Jesus you all are so confused LMFAO.
A cinema screen is immersive because it’s absolutely enormous and takes a large portion of a person’s field-of-view relative to other screens they watch.
A phone is more immersive if it has smaller bezel.
A TV is more immersive if it has a smaller bezel or if it is a larger screen.
I've read this reply like 5 times now and I am indeed exceedingly confused by what point you are trying to make, yes
If we are the ones confused about "immersion", why are there so many of us, but just one of you?
😂
Because macrumors isn’t comprised of many thinking users
Au contraire my friend
We have many very intelligent and well educated users here
No need to denigrate others just because there is misunderstanding here