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Samsung brought something truly unique to CES 2024 in Las Vegas. Samsung showed off its transparent MicroLED display. This is also a world’s first, it seems.
Samsung grabbed plenty of attention with its transparent MicroLED display
Samsung actually placed this display next to its transparent OLED and Transparent LCD models, just to highlight the difference here, and how much better the MicroLED tech is. The MicroLED is significantly brighter, but it also has a fully frameless design and a transparent glass panel. It looks truly unique.
As long as you’re not looking at this display from the side, the content on it looks like a hologram. That’s at least what my colleague told me after seeing this technology with his own eyes. You can actually see it for yourself below the article, as Samsung’s video has been embedded.
When it comes to thickness, it measures only around 1cm
To make things even better, the TV itself is only about a centimeter thick. In other words, it’s really thin. All that helps make the content look like it’s just floating in the air. You can achieve the effect of a hologram with this.
If you’ve been looking forward to getting this display, perhaps, don’t. Why? Well, Samsung’s current-gen MicroLED TVs are unbelievably pricey. A model from 2022 with a 110-inch display costs $150,000. Just to be clear, that’s a regular MicroLED TV, not a transparent one.
It is not available yet, but if it does, it’ll be extremely expensive
So, if these transparent MicroLED TVs ever become available, they’ll be extremely expensive. With time, chances are they’ll become cheaper and cheaper, but don’t hold your breath. It will take quite some time for that to happen.
That’s all the info that we could muster thus far. So, to sum up. This is a transparent, frameless TV that is considerably brighter than its OLED and LCD brethren. Considering that it’s brighter, it will be less impacted by ambient light. That’s also something Samsung emphasized. It will be interesting to see a truly premium price tag for this TV, that’s for sure.