That could be made to work by stacking a transparent OLED panel in front of a transparent LCD panel. The LCD would absorb light, and the OLED would emit light.

I just tried to search for some examples, but I can't find any. Maybe the displays can't be made thin enough to eliminate parallax between the two images?

I mean you could always tag transparency as extra bits. Presumably both sides of the link would need to understand this. So you'd send an 8bpc signal as idk 10, which gets you 6bpc of transparency. Or you run a faster framerate where 1 in every N frames is a transparency. It could work.

For displayport you could use MST

I agree. There are other displays you can use with a greater focal distance: AR glasses, VR headsets, TVs, and projectors.

But we haven’t seen the actual product yet.

Does eye strain even damage your vision long term?

I feel like it's likely misleading, too. Eye breaks are about changing your focal plane, and if you're looking beyond the monitor to rest your eyes, you won't be seeing the screen.

You can experience this with a window with dry erase markers. Focus at a far off point and the dry erase is illegible and may not even disturb your far vision. Focus at the glass and you can read whatever you wrote (subject to penmanship).

Heads up displays often have optics to project onto a medium distance focal plane, otherwise your eyes have to work harder and you're not really able to see the scene and the display at the same time.

See this article on the growing prevelance of myopia: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/nov/14/eyeballs-scr...

I intentionally arrange my desk so that I can look past my monitor. On days where I can't refocus my eyes on something long-distance, I have difficulty focusing my vision after spending 1/3 of the day looking at computer screens. On days where I can refocus my eyes, I can go up to 2/3 of the day without issue.

There seems to be real evidence[0] for the idea that focusing on nearby objects like computer screens for hours on end can contribute to the development of myopia. Breaks might help.

I don't see any reason to believe that making the screen transparent rather than looking to the side of it is a better way to look out a window for a break.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34622560/

There is an eye exercise for short-sighted people that involves painting a dot on a window glass and then repeatedly changing focus between the dot and the scenery behind the window.

Basically, focus on the dot for 10 seconds, then on the back. Rinse and repeat several times, 2-3 times a day.

I was given this exercise over 30 years ago and its goal was to stop the worsening of the eyesight. Fwiw, in my case, it seemed to have worked.

I guess you could arrange your room so that when you’re looking through the monitor you’re looking across the room.

Why does it need to be novel? It's (in theory!) a product you can buy. There's a bunch of different car companies & phone companies & writers & stuff, right?

Looks like it functions like a teleprompter. The actual display is flat on the desk facing up, and reflected at you through a piece of glass set at 45 degrees, with a second piece of switchable "privacy glass" behind it to provide opacity when desired. Since you're looking at a reflection of the display, viewing it from the side as in that image breaks the alignment and cuts off part of it.

True. It requires more space, but it’s been done: https://sofiapandelea.medium.com/monitor-replacement-using-a...

http://nixon-development.com/fp/nearsightedness.htm

As I write this, 7 / 10 "founder" models are available. So, three. Perhaps this is more in line with the nautical use of that word.

s/packaging/branding/

The product packaging itself doesn't look that great IMO.

I also have a HUD in my car and I can read it just fine, even in bright sunlight.

It’s quite difficult to take a lot of breaks when you’re focused on work.