Transparent Screen Laptops

A Transparent Screen?

A transparent screen is an optical illusion like this one where the screen looks like you can see right through it.

Transparent Screens is a Flickr photoset of laptops whose desktop wallpaper has been set to a digital photo of the walls and windows behind them, so that they appear to have totally transparent displays. The effect is striking.

This seems to be a bit of a craze at the moment. How it works (put simply) is that you take a photo of whatever is behind your computer screen, and then use it as your desktop. Obviously it’s a more precise art than that, but it’s relatively simple. But it really fantastic how it would be if someone could develop LCD/TFT glass displays.








How it works?

A camera is mounted on the laptop that would keep track of where the eyes are (there are programs out there that can already track the head - the eyes are located in predictable points based on that). The laptop would already have a mesh version of the present room in its memory.

By the view of the room minus “volatile” elements , the laptop could figure out the location of the screen of the lappie.

Combining that information, the laptop could figure out what the left eye and right eye should see where the laptop screen is, if that screen was not there.

What is very interesting about this is that the computer should be able to account for the head moving, and for the laptop moving as well!