The large information in displays for 2023 was a shift to OLED panels, bringing the long-awaited tech from high-end televisions into increasingly more places of work and gaming setups. But what comes subsequent? If you ask in style OEM show panel producer TCL, they may reply with “domes.” As in, a display that’s curved at either side, the highest, and the underside. The firm is exhibiting off the brand new panel to potential manufacturing companions in China.

Initially noticed by VideoCardz, the 31-inch prototype monitor undoubtedly stands out in a crowd. The concave curve of the show virtually appears to be like like an optical phantasm, or perhaps like you should get your glasses prescription up to date. The 31-inch panel has a 4K decision and a decent 120Hz refresh fee, and it’s an OLED panel, which can clarify the way it’s extra simply bent into this distinctive form.

What’s the benefit of a double-curved monitor? Honestly, I couldn’t guess. A machine translation of the promotional textual content says that it provides a “wide 3D space perspective.” While the immersive qualities of curved shows are nonetheless a bit contentious for the standard, two-dimensional curve, I can’t think about any sensible benefit for a curve on the shorter Y axis, apart from perhaps wanting like your FOV slider is out of whack in actual life.

Still, monitor makers (particularly for gaming manufacturers) are all the time determined for some extent of differentiation. That could be doubly true for OLEDs, the place it looks like the identical handful of panels get re-used for dozens of various monitor fashions. If TCL finds any takers for this design, we’d see it pop up in merchandise beginning within the second half of 2024.