Another year, another CES, another batch of big and strange ideas about displays. CES may not be quite the TV-centric show it once was, but you practically can’t turn around in the Las Vegas Convention Center without encountering a new way to use LEDs.

For the first of our two Vergecast episodes live from the Kia Connected Home at CES this week, we dug into the most important new screens of the year. That means TVs, monitors, laptops, smartphones, and all the other display-centric things we’ve seen so far. (On Friday, we’ll get to all the cars, smart home sensors, massage chairs, and everything else that’s not quite so screen-y.) Then, we get to the biggest CES-adjacent news of the week: Apple’s ship date announcement for the Vision Pro and the surprising lack of competition showing up in Vegas so far.

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Here are a few links especially related to this episode on TVs:

• I’ve looked through LG’s new transparent OLED TV and seen something special
• Samsung’s got its own transparent display
• Samsung’s new OLED TV could make annoying glare a thing of the past
• Samsung finally puts the TV at the heart of its smart home
• The Frame has become such a hit that Samsung is making a speaker version

On laptops and gaming gear:

• Lenovo’s latest 2-in-1 crams Windows and Android into one device
• Acer is bringing its glasses-free 3D screen to a more affordable laptop  
• Acer adds swappable mechanical keys to its latest gaming laptops 
• Asus’ new ROG Zephyrus laptops feature OLED displays and a sleek light strip 
• MSI upgrades its Stealth gaming laptop and more with new chips and AI features
• MSI made a $5,000 laptop with an RGB trackpad
• Razer gaming laptops at CES 2024: Blade spec bumps and display upgrades  
• Alienware’s M16 R2 trims the behind for less power and more portability  
• MSI Claw hands-on: the Steam Deck rival with Intel inside 

On all the other screens we saw:

• What if your Samsung flip phone could flip further?
• Asus announces two new 480Hz OLED monitors to cover 1080p and 1440p gaming 
• Asus made a big portable OLED monitor you can fold in half

On the Vision Pro launch and the CES competition:

• Apple Vision Pro launches on February 2nd 
• Apple Vision Pro prescription lenses will cost $149 extra
• Xreal’s new AR glasses are aimed at the Apple Vision Pro
• Asus targets Apple’s Vision Pro (with M2) with the AirVision M1