Google possibly developing "lego like" screens

[bob345]

source: http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/3/6905083/google-developing-displays-that-connect-like-legos-report

 

 

Google is developing a new display that can connect with other displays to create one giant screen, according to The Wall Street Journal. The project is the latest that's been reported out of the company's experimental Google X lab, which is responsible for work such as its self-driving car. This obviously sounds far less ambitious, but it still isn't entirely clear what this new tech would be like or how it would work.

 

Supposedly forming one seamless image

The Journal suggests that these displays will be used to make gigantic TV screens by plugging together smaller ones as though they were Legos. It even says that the image will be seamless — which would mean that Google is making them without any sort of surrounding bezel. The displays can also reportedly be formed into different shapes. Google is also toying with modular technology in its Project Ara smartphones, and one can imagine how this tech could also be applied there.

Mary Lou Jepsen, the co-founder of One Laptop Per Child, is behind this new project, according to the Journal. Google's current challenge, apparently, is in stitching together a single image across the separate screens so that they all work properly in conjunction. That makes it sound like these displays aren't about to leave the lab just yet. And, given that Google X is behind it, perhaps there's still a bigger vision here that we're yet to discover.

 

So pretty much Google wants to make small screens that can be linked together to form a seamless image. I think this would be really cool. Just imagine the possibilities if something like this is implemented with nvidia surround. The major thing that caught my eye in the article is the the integration between displays will likely be seamless. Just imagine not having to have any bezzel in between your monitors in an eyfinity setup. That would just be amazing.

[LemonSpice]

source: http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/3/6905083/google-developing-displays-that-connect-like-legos-report

 

 

So pretty much Google wants to make small screens that can be linked together to form a seamless image. I think this would be really cool. Just imagine the possibilities if something like this is implemented with nvidia surround. The major thing that caught my eye in the article is the the integration between displays will likely be seamless. Just imagine not having to have any bezzel in between your monitors in an eyfinity setup. That would just be amazing.

it would be awesome although what bus would they use to connect them and it would have to be standerdised

[MammothJerk]

font please

[Sonefiler]

This would be awesome for Project Ara

[Poohy14]

[BallGum]

Google is doing some extremely exciting things lately, although I have to wonder of the applications for the Lego displays.

I asume it would be cool for a bunch of friends with project ara displays to just combine them into a TV or so, but it seems more like a gimmick to me. Maybe I'm missing something though?

[The_Evenger]

i want it. i want it now!

[WereCat]

Will there be version for each pixel individually? That would be handy for playing on XBox One of you know what I mean.

[Tonylu1595]

I want this to be with phones, so if you and your friend want to do something like watch a movie then you could combine the screens to make it bigger. Or you could drag and drop from phone to phone. 

[witting]

They already exist but on the enterprise side and the screens are LED screens with tiles that can be swapped really quick. However they have a really low DPI as they are used for large outdoor or indoor screen.

http://www.barco.com/en/Products-Solutions/LED-displays/Indoor-LED-displays

It will be interesting though to see googles attempt.

[bob345]

They already exist but on the enterprise side and the screens are LED screens with tiles that can be swapped really quick. However they have a really low DPI as they are used for large outdoor or indoor screen.

http://www.barco.com/en/Products-Solutions/LED-displays/Indoor-LED-displays

It will be interesting though to see googles attempt.

yeah, led matrix displays are nothing new, but Google is looking at actual high resolution small form factor displays, like lcd panels,  not displays that are meant to be the size of a billboard

[witting]

yeah, led matrix displays are nothing new, but Google is looking at actual high resolution small form factor displays, like lcd panels,  not displays that are meant to be the size of a billboard

I know but the idea isn't new I just meant that. but those led displays are really cool and surprisingly bright they can easily be viewed in direct sunlight and swapping a panel takes like 5 minutes max. Still phone displays will be really hard as they also have to connect up all the pixels and they probably would want the average Joe to be able.

[TAK]

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[Trik'Stari]

[Kamil]

If this was possible and still make money, don't you think Samsung would've already done these.

The difference is, Google doesn't really feel the need to make money right away off of something like this. It's from the same division as their self-driving cars, which I'm pretty sure they haven't sold any of yet.

Of course, that doesn't mean they WON'T make money off this in the future... "Free displays! Any size and aspect ratio you want with no bezels! And we're totally not evil OR collecting all the information that you put on those screens for advertising purposes!"

[DigitalHermit]

Hasn't this already been done before (on a billboard/business display)?

[bob345]

Hasn't this already been done before (on a billboard/business display)?

not with small high resolution display's. Bilboard displays are made up of 5000 or so rgb led's per panel so the same tech cant be scaled down very well

[DigitalHermit]

not with small high resolution display's. Bilboard displays are made up of 5000 or so rgb led's per panel so the same tech cant be scaled down very well

 

So we're speaking eyefinity-like setups but on smaller screens?

[bob345]

So we're speaking eyefinity-like setups but on smaller screens?

from what i have read so far, yeah. I would love to see tech like to actually work. A seamless eyefinity setup would be amazing.

[DigitalHermit]

from what i have read so far, yeah. I would love to see tech like to actually work. A seamless eyefinity setup would be amazing.

 

Hopefully AMD will either pitch in or at least not sue...

 

I've seen some really good displays like those here... They're almost seamless, but the pixels are too big...

[witting]

Hasn't this already been done before (on a billboard/business display)?

http://www.barco.com/en/Products-Solutions/LED-displays/Indoor-LED-displays

Is this what you mean?

[DigitalHermit]

http://www.barco.com/en/Products-Solutions/LED-displays/Indoor-LED-displays

Is this what you mean?

 

Something like that, yes... I imagine that what Google's planning is a miniaturization of something like that...