Because these billboards are just monitors rotated 90 degrees, they’re invisible to polarized sunglasses. It’s like a real-life ad blocker!
@sandofsky With the added bonus of not being able to see your car console while driving because that is also a monitor now!
@Unabart @sandofsky thankfully I do not need a car. Lucky me.
BTW this reminds me of the movie They Live
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Live
That was also my first reaction.
Most famous quote from the film that I could use every day:
„I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum.“
@prefec2 @sandofsky I love my car. I’m lucky I have one. It’s been a tremendous benefit to my livelihood. I would be fucked without it.
@Unabart @sandofsky This is unfortunate for you that you need a car and that they use screens with polarised light so many sunglasses can render them unusable. Unfortunately, this issue does not disappear with OLED. Of course this can be avoided with another type of sunglasses, but that can be quite expensive when you need special ones tailored to your eyes.
BTW thanks for reminding me of this issue. I would have missed that otherwise.
@prefec2 @sandofsky I don’t have polarized glasses. I can see everything as intended!
@prefec2 @Unabart @sandofsky why does OLED use polarized light?
@taixzo @Unabart @sandofsky honestly I did not understand why, but it seems it does. I found multiple sources pointing that out and one that explained it. Also I did not find sources which claimed the opposite. However, if someone can provide a comprehensive and understandable explanation, I would be delighted to read it.
@prefec2 @taixzo @Unabart @sandofsky
Just a demo of the effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SIxEiL8ujA
With some explanations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xUtl1--Z7g
@gerdcastan @prefec2 @taixzo @Unabart @sandofsky do you have a link to a written explanation?
@prefec2 @taixzo @Unabart @sandofsky Most OLEDs use polarizers and wave plates to reduce reflections which would otherwise come from internal components. You lose brightness (~50%), but gain contrast. This is one of the reasons why the efficiency of OLEDs is lower than one might naively hope.
Here's one model: https://optics.ansys.com/hc/en-us/articles/5845197523731 (Note that the front of the display is at the bottom of the diagrams, and unfortunately the OLEDs themselves are left out.)
Just one more reason to drive a classic car :
Physical gauges aren't polarized.
Then I'm really lucky. My car is old enough - not having any digital screens in it
@Unabart (Cc: @prefec2 @sandofsky)
Let me guess — you're american? It's really unfortunate how US is inaccessible without a car. Thank god, Europe is very different.
@migmit @prefec2 @sandofsky I live and work in Europe, so you have guessed wrong.
@Unabart @prefec2 @sandofsky Apologies. I'd say it is very strange then.
@migmit @prefec2 @sandofsky I work throughout all of Western Europe. Italy, Spain, Austria, Belgium, U.K., and throughout all parts of Germany. This requires a car. I have a nice car and it’s an important part of my life. There’s nothing strange about this.
@migmit @Unabart @prefec2 @sandofsky so strange indeed! I lived in Europe all my life and never even saw a car or met a person who owns one.
@mykhaylo @migmit @prefec2 @sandofsky Super proud of you! Pride of the village!
@Unabart @migmit @prefec2 @sandofsky that was sarcasm dude, do i really need to spell it out. It’s normal to have a car in Europe.
@Unabart @prefec2 @sandofsky "I would be fucked without my car" says good things about your car in context, but bad things about the built environment produced by car culture.
@jtwcornell91 @prefec2 @sandofsky I don’t give a shit. I love car culture. What I do is none of your business and I wish people would just mind their own. All I mentioned was a silly quip about reading a car console with polarized shades and every bicycle ninny lines up to educate me about cars and car culture. Do whatever you want. I really don’t care at all. Just please leave me alone about what I want to do. Thanks.
@Unabart @jtwcornell91 @sandofsky The thing is, we live together on this globe. The everyone minds his or her own business is not sufficient. We have cars parked everywhere, people cannot use the sidewalk safely, people get run over while motorists think when they can't see a thing there is nothing, or they don't look and kill another person on a bicycle or a pedestrian. Cars also use a lot of space, the infrastructure is expensive. So prior 1 for cars will not do it.
@prefec2 What part of "I don't care" is the hardest to grasp? I don't give a single dimpled shit how you feel about cars. DO WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT, JUST LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!
@gretared Well, at least it was a good opportunity to enhance the block list.
@Unabart @prefec2 @sandofsky my point was just that lots of people who don't love their cars would still be fucked without them.
@Unabart @prefec2 @sandofsky ,
Catch 22
@prefec2 @Unabart @sandofsky
My first thought....
@prefec2 @sandofsky
Love that movie! I wonder if there is some kind of paint that is invisible unless wearing polarized glasses
@Kjellhaften @prefec2 @sandofsky classic lcds have a polarized foil if you remove that you can only read the display with polarized glasses on.
@Unabart @sandofsky it's ok with my car (sandero II) and my current phone (s21, it wasn't with my s7 though)
@sandofsky “Advertisers hate this one trick…”
@Sharedcow @sandofsky "Five new ways to use your sunglasses – number three will shock you!"
@sandofsky Shhhh...shhhh. Don't let them know.
@sandofsky “but that is stealing from advertisers” :-) :-)
@revk @sandofsky or “piracy” according to LTT lmfao
@gruik Thanks I came here to post this
@MyLittleMetroid @gruik I've made a reply on that wavelength and I am glad I was not the only one.
@gruik @sandofsky I came here for this
It would be quite unfortunate if someone applied polorized film to the covers of those monitors
@simonzerafa @sandofsky how expensive is this stuff...
@Green @simonzerafa @sandofsky doesn't seem cheap unfortunately. Covering it would be $20-30 bucks