LG Show Makes OLED Enjoyable With Racing Video games, Campfire Ideas

The TVs of CES are available in two flavors: regular screens you possibly can look ahead to seeing in shops later this yr, and peculiar ideas that present what’s attainable and make photograph and video op. Once I toured the personal sales space of LG Show, an organization that makes OLED screens for not solely LG however different manufacturers, I used to be instantly drawn to its bizarre ideas. 

The tour started with a lineup of normal OLED screens that use the corporate’s new high-brightness panels, launching later this year, however then it obtained enjoyable. First up was an elaborate gaming rig designed for racers, full with flooring pedals and a swooped-back chair. The show in query was a 45-inch ultrawide gaming monitor with an 800R curvature that felt super-immersive after I took the wheel.

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That monitor is actually shipping soon (without the chair, pedals and steering wheel), but the other two concepts I liked are strictly for show, for now. One is a 42-inch OLED TV with a pair of huge circular speakers on either side. They actually obscure the screen, until a motor on the stand activates and they move farther out to the side.

The other was relatively small, a 27-inch OLED concept that LG Display calls LG Glow. The charming setup started with the display in vertical, portrait mode showing a crackling fire. I was able to raise the display up on the stand arm and swing it out into horizontal landscape orientation, while the screen switched to a more standard display showing a music player. I’m not sure how useful it is, but it sure looked cool. Er, warm.