The throne of awesome: 55-inch curved OLED TV meets massive recliner
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Speaker 1: Hey guys, I'm here to tell you about some of the coolest concept TV tech from LG display, the company that makes all of the big Ole panels used in televisions today, they include a huge chair with a rotating OED, TV attached, an exercise bike with a massive curve screen, and a bunch of transparent displays. You kind of have to see to believe now, most of these aren't real products, but they do show what kinds of things we could see in the near future. Now in a normal year, I'd [00:00:30] be at the company's private CES booth in Las Vegas to see this gear in person, but it's not a normal year. So I'm here at home. LG display also doesn't have a physical presence at the show. So these images are, as we can get for now, my favorite concept product is something LG display calls the media chair, but I call it the throne of awesome.
Speaker 1: This thing has a 55 inch curved OED TV attached to a chair that reclined and looks cool doing it. The TV is a distance of about 1.5 meters, roughly five feet from the face of the viewer in the chair, [00:01:00] which LGD says is the optimal viewing distance. One of the coolest things this display can rotate from vertical or portrait mode into landscape mode. Thanks to a built-in motor. There's also an LCD touch screen on the side to control what you're watching. Although I'd love to have one of these things at home. LG display says a more practical use would be in something like a first class airport lounge. They're currently working with a Korean massage chair company to design something similar. Next up is basically a Peloton on [00:01:30] steroids. LG display calls this the virtual ride. And as you can see the ideas to surround a stationary bike with a big screen in front and above to create a sense of immersion.
Speaker 1: There's 3 55 inch curved OED screens oriented vertically and stacked one on top of one another. They can be programmed to show a ride through a forest or a city street, or pretty much anywhere a display can track speed, heart rate, and other vitals. Once again, there's a small LCD touch screen on the side to control everything. [00:02:00] Now, LG display pitch this to me as better than conventional VR, for example, because you don't have to wear goggles, but that's a stretch with home exercise equipment becoming even more sophisticated. However, it's only a matter of time before something like this goes on sale.
Speaker 1: The rest of LG displays concepts center around transparent Ole. Now this technology is more suited to commercial uses and indeed the company says it's already being used in malls in Korea and China, as well as museums and exhibition spaces like the Smithsonian [00:02:30] in Washington DC, and 180, the strand in London, the latest version of transparent OED can achieve 40% transparency, which as you can see is plenty to reveal. Whatever's behind the screen in something L G calls the OED shelf, a pair of 55 inch panels, hang down from well a shelf, the images like a waterfall, a painting, or a clock with the weather are transparent enough to show the wall behind another version of transparent OED can be turned into a shopping display where merchandise like these perfume
Speaker 2: Bottles combines with [00:03:00] advertising art seen from the side, the display almost disappears. And this wood panel a slick touch, a larger version combines four transparent Ole TVs into a window size display seen here to show off jeans and t-shirts of all things. None of LG displays transparent O led seem suited to the home. Although last year, the company, he did show a bed with a transparent TV attached. I'm a bit bummed that I can't see any of these concept products in person this year at LG displays booth, but maybe next year I'll get the chance to sit in that huge chair reporting [00:03:30] from my basement at virtual CES, 2022, I'm David Kasey for.
