LG is bringing flexible OLED to a wild, rotating easy chair

LG is bringing flexible OLED to a wild, rotating like shooting fish in a barrel chair

(Image credit: LG Display)

The future of display technologies is not just giant TVs, it'south South Korea tech behemothic LG's almost infinitely mutable OLED technology, which is now migrating to furniture and practice apparatus.

At CES 2022, LG Display is announcing a scattering of oddball and heady flexible and semi-transparent display innovations, including a giant semi-circle chair home entertainment system and a new style to spin.

Much of this is possible because of OLED (organic lite-emitting diode) native capabilities, which include self-emitting low-cal—when charged— (LCD requires backlight) and an organic structure that allows them to be manufactured on sparse, flexible substrates.

LG Display, which, unlike the consumer LG Electronics company, builds concepts that it hopes will inspire consumer-facing companies to build new products effectually, gave TechRadar a sneak peek at some of its latest OLED innovations.

Immersive displays you lot can sit down in

OLED is not just well-nigh transparency; it also provides flexibility (early OLED demonstration ofttimes featured someone rolling up a live screen like paper.

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LG's Media Chair concept features a large semi-circle seating system. Within is a reclining chair and curved, 55-inch LG OLED with congenital-in Cinematic Sound OLED (CSO). Both the recliner and screen rotate in tandem inside the circle, keeping the screen perfectly aligned with the viewer. In another twist, the screen tin with the touch of a button rotate ninety-degrees.

LG Virtual Ride (Prototype credit: LG Display)

Similarly, LG showed us a Virtual Ride system that wraps a stationary bike rider in three, brilliant 55-inch OLEDs from over their heads to the tips of their toes, all curved to create a seamless viewing experience. LG calls it an immersive arrangement, just there are no OLEDs on the left or right side of the rider. Still, information technology does have the potential to brand a bored spin rider experience more engaged equally they wheel through a virtual countryside—just don't glance to your left, right, or below your feet.

These and other LG OLED implementations (by years saw them in curved chairs, encounter-through shopping kiosks, and popular-upwards bed screens) are a reminder that these flexible displays can go almost anywhere. In the meantime, more than mainstream Telly manufacturers, similar LG Electronics, Sony, and Panasonic are pressing OLED technologies into Ultra HD and 8K-TV service. Those are the spaces where consumers are more probable to encounter this cutting-edge display engineering science.

Still, these LG Display concepts offer an exciting look at a future where more surfaces become displays, but it'll simply get a reality if companies offset edifice consumer systems based on these concept designs.

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A 35-year industry veteran and laurels-winning journalist, Lance has covered technology since PCs were the size of suitcases and "on line" meant "waiting." He's a onetime Lifewire Editor-in-Chief, Mashable Editor-in-Principal, and, before that, Editor in Principal of PCMag.com and Senior Vice President of Content for Ziff Davis, Inc. He too wrote a pop, weekly tech column for Medium called The Upgrade.

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