Samsung Shows Off Foldable OLED Television [Foldable Television Adds Versatility to 3D Presentation]

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For those of you enjoying the 3D phenomenon, you’ll definitely be interested in reading about the new development that Samsung’s putting out, because it’s going to make it possible for you to sit most anywhere in a room and still get 3D action, the foldable OLED television.

Basically, a foldable OLED television allows the panel to be folded, and this in turn lets you adjust the angle of the displayed 3D content, allowing you to get a good view of 3D action from different places in a room.

See, with 3D, you pretty much have to be sitting straight on to get the best effect out of it–that’s the nature of the operation. Sit slightly left or right of the screen and you lose a lot of the 3D effect. In some cases it’s lost entirely. But with a flexible screen, you get more options in where you sit. Even better, the image can then be folded around the viewer, which provides a more immersive experience overall by providing the illusion of being “surrounded” by the content.

That’s a nifty idea in certain senses–imagine 3D horror film that, say, had you out in the middle of the woods while the monster / killer du jour is stalking the bushes around you. You’d never know where the jump would come from. And it’s not just scary movies, either–action film would see a huge jump from such an idea.

Of course, I’ve often believed that 3D was little more than a cheesy gimmick aimed at helping the moribund theater industry try and get a little life back in it, but the more I see, the more I begin to wonder if maybe this isn’t such a bad idea after all. As someone who loves movies, it’s a real thrill to see them get more immersive. And though Samsung only just now showed off the foldable OLED at the FDP International show, the current word says in another five or ten years, it could be in your living room. And that’ll be an interesting day when that happens!

n that’s on screen. The concept was shown off at the FDP International 2010 show, and the technology could hit living rooms in another 5-10 years.

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