They also emit real photons. 🤯
Nah, fuck that. Buys e-ink monitor
They would still emit real photons, just reflected ones.
Strictly speaking, reflected light isn’t ‘emitted’. A mirror isn’t an emitter of light either.
Photons get absorbed and then re-emitted. I’d argue that counts as emission as it’s one part of the reflection process.
Yep, virtual lights work the same as real lights
If they’re not looked at, they don’t consume as much electricity. So there’s that difference.
If you have your back to them, they don’t emit light either!
Edit: Well, reflections, for you with the FANCY GPUs…
And by convention, all vehicles in video games are electric.
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Which is really unexpected if you’re looking at an oil lamp.
Change electricity to energy and we’re good again
More interestingly, lamps in video games use the same amount of real electricity if they are on or off.
Not necessarily, on OLED displays (which are definitely a thing for desktop computers and TVs) a light that’s turned off is using less power because the pixels the lamp is displayed on (and the ones around it too) are dimmer.
