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« on: August 23, 2020, 04:05:18 pm »

Taking your new Switch V2 outside? Leave your polarized sunglasses behind!

It's painful to use polarized sunglasses when playing the new Switch.

A fun trick I used to play as a kid, was holding up a pair of polarized sunglasses to a screen and turning them sideways. At some point, your view through the lenses turns dark and you can't see anything at all. It's really a fascinating thing to watch. However, while it's a fun experiment, this is not something you want to have to deal with when trying to use a screen of any sort.

Many screens are polarized to some extent, especially ones that will be used outside (like the ones found on smartphones). When someone says that a screen is polarized what they are saying is that the screen has been designed to reduce glare and thus make it easier to view in bright sunlight. This is done by placing lines across the display in a specific orientation. That nifty little screen trick I mentioned above happens when the polarized lines on a pair of sunglasses line up in such a way with a screen's lines that the light gets c...

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