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Future MacBooks May Hide Your Screen From Strangers

I feel like this is a BOE or LG Apple display compared to the Samsung Apple displays which are brighter with better viewing angles...
 
Years of developing amazing panels that have wide viewing angles and now we are going to undo it because people are afraid someone might see their instagram feed.
 
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There are many workflows where off-axis viewing is necessary, both in the vertical and horizontal axis. This has the potential to be disastrous if it's implemented as poorly as Apple's newest features.
 
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Stop with the nonsense that Apple is developing anything. This is all Samsung tech, just like the upcoming Fold 8 display Apple will be using in their upcoming foldable. Apple doesn't innovate anything that moves the industry forward. All they do is leach off Samsung's tech, and then let their blind loyalist believe exactly what they want them to believe, that is was their innovation.
 
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I don't want to make any compromise on viewing angles. I hope it's a feature that you can opt out of when you buy the laptop (just like the nano texture option).
 
ChromeCloud said:
I don't want to make any compromise on viewing angles. I hope it's a feature that you can opt out of when you buy the laptop (just like the nano texture option).
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People really aren’t reading the article. It’s a software feature that you’ll be able to turn on and off when you need it.
 
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PLEASE BRING THIS TO IPHONE/IPAD.
I always have a privacy screen protector on my iPhone but I hate how expensive they are and how I’m putting something over the brand new beautiful built-in display.
I have nothing to hide but I also hate prying eyes. I’ve seen it too many times and it makes me so uncomfortable.
 
cmChimera said:
People really aren’t reading the article. It’s a software feature that you’ll be able to turn on and off when you need it.
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A software feature is especially worrying, since it must be enabled by an additional layer that intrinsically reduces display clarity even when the layer is not being activated.

On top of that, even when the layer is not activated, it might still somewhat reduce the viewing angle because of technological limitations.

As an example: have you ever seen electrochromic panoramic glass? It never turns completely transparent when the filter is off.
 
ChromeCloud said:
A software feature is especially worrying, since it must be enabled by an additional layer that intrinsically reduces display clarity even when the layer is not being activated.

On top of that, even when the layer is not activated, it might still somewhat reduce the viewing angle because of technological limitations.

As an example: have you ever seen electrochromic panoramic glass? It never turns completely transparent when the filter is off.
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If you like...read the article...
 
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cmChimera said:
If you like...read the article...
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You're right, I missed the part about Samsung's new display tech that enables such a feature without using a dedicated filter.

Still, I'm not completely sold on the "magic" aspect of it. I expect a slight compromise in overall display quality when viewing the screen from an angle even when the feature is turned off completely. We'll see.
 
TFrank2 said:
This would be my concern too. Every screen I’ve seen at work with this is also dull and grey tinged as well
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These are screen filters you are referring to probably by 3M on HP or Lenovo machines. This tech is at the pixel level can be controlled on each pixel. So you hide a specific element of the screen if you wanted to. You have not seen this tech before in the wild as it hasn't been released yet. Samsung is about to unveil it.
 
zhtfreak said:
Macs and iPhones and iPads have been able to do something like this for more than a decade... if you use accessibility. VoiceOver lets you turn your screen black because a person who is blind doesn't need it unless they're showing someone something, and they don't always know what other people can see depending on how their device is positioned. I use it all the time and have forgotten many times that I have it enabled and I need someone to see something on on my phone. lol Good to see the mainstream catching up with something like it.
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didn't read the article I see.
 
ngextreme said:
These are screen filters you are referring to probably by 3M on HP or Lenovo machines. This tech is at the pixel level can be controlled on each pixel. So you hide a specific element of the screen if you wanted to. You have not seen this tech before in the wild as it hasn't been released yet. Samsung is about to unveil it.
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I’m aware. What I was getting at, but could have better articulated, is that I hope it’s a markedly better experience than current state alternative because the current state is mediocre at best. Given the tech, I’d assume it will be
 
I never work in public. The solution is a magnetic privacy screen cover. If someone is working in a public place where strangers can see their screen, I don’t believe the quality loss will be matter.
 
Should be useful. However not sure on when it will be implemented. Can very well take much longer than 3 years. Think it will be an add on for probably an additional $150 instead of being available by default on all models, just like the nano texture option available currently.
 
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The technology Apple is planning to adopt restricts off-axis viewing angles so only someone sitting directly in front of the display can see its contents, while onlookers to the side see a darkened or obscured image.
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Everyone drooling over OLED screens and Apple’s, like, bringing back early TN panels “and we think you’re going to love it”. 😊
 
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