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LGD to Develop Stretchable Display Technology w/Government Backing
LG Display was commissioned by the South Korean government to pursue 'stretchable' screens, for smartphones, smart displays, car dashboards, wearables, and even TVs. A press release said, "the company is aiming to develop stretchable display products with a 20 percent elongation rate by 2024." LG further said, "stretchable displays are considered to be the ideal next-generation technology because they can shift in ‘free form’, similar to the way a rubber band stretches, while not affecting the quality of displays such as through screen distortion. By comparison, existing commercial flexible display technologies such as bendable, foldable, and rollable panels excel only in particular areas or directions. Thus, stretchable displays are considered the final phase of the evolution of flexible displays."
Stretching one’s imagination, the potential application would be in handheld devices, where grappling with the form factor makes the most sense. For example, zooming in on a picture without reducing the amount of information onscreen, or ensuring your most-used device can fit easily in a pocket but expand when needed to. In augmented reality, the ability to physically influence AR-compatible devices to change what information is being shown.
Game controllers like the DualShock 4 or Xbox One controller, the ability to hold tension – say, in a trigger input – vastly increases the amount of control you have over how firmly an object is gripped or (as in Horizon Zero Dawn or The Last of Us 2) how tightly the drawstring on a bow is pulled back.
LG Display was commissioned by the South Korean government to pursue 'stretchable' screens, for smartphones, smart displays, car dashboards, wearables, and even TVs. A press release said, "the company is aiming to develop stretchable display products with a 20 percent elongation rate by 2024." LG further said, "stretchable displays are considered to be the ideal next-generation technology because they can shift in ‘free form’, similar to the way a rubber band stretches, while not affecting the quality of displays such as through screen distortion. By comparison, existing commercial flexible display technologies such as bendable, foldable, and rollable panels excel only in particular areas or directions. Thus, stretchable displays are considered the final phase of the evolution of flexible displays."
Stretching one’s imagination, the potential application would be in handheld devices, where grappling with the form factor makes the most sense. For example, zooming in on a picture without reducing the amount of information onscreen, or ensuring your most-used device can fit easily in a pocket but expand when needed to. In augmented reality, the ability to physically influence AR-compatible devices to change what information is being shown.
Game controllers like the DualShock 4 or Xbox One controller, the ability to hold tension – say, in a trigger input – vastly increases the amount of control you have over how firmly an object is gripped or (as in Horizon Zero Dawn or The Last of Us 2) how tightly the drawstring on a bow is pulled back.
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