Transparent LED isn’t new, but one of its persistent problems has been the hardware you can still see behind the image. Power supplies, framing and cabling have a way of reminding you that you’re looking through an LED wall.
ROE Visual’s Vanish Air Rental attacks that problem by moving the power system into the perimeter of the panel rather than using a conventional central PSU column. The result is a much more open-looking structure that ROE rates at 92% visual transparency. From roughly 5–8 meters away, the company says much of the panel structure effectively disappears from view.
The rental panel is built around a 1000 × 1000 mm frame with a 6.94 mm pixel pitch, up to 4,000 nits of brightness and a 7,680 Hz refresh rate. The indoor version weighs just 8.5 kg, while the outdoor version comes in at 11.8 kg and carries an IP65 rating. Processing support includes Brompton, Nova and Evision.
For production designers, the real appeal is what that transparency can do to a stage. Video can sit in front of lighting, scenic elements or other layers without creating the same visual wall that a conventional LED display does. The more open construction also improves light transmission and sound permeability through the display.
There are a few useful tricks built in as well. Panels can curve up to 5 degrees concave or convex, and an optional rear blanking plate can turn the same product into a more traditional non-transparent display when the show design calls for it.
The design recently earned a 2026 PLASA Award for Innovation, with judges specifically recognizing ROE’s decision to move the drive electronics to the perimeter and eliminate the traditional central spine.
Transparent LED has always looked great in renderings. Vanish Air is an interesting attempt to make the hardware disappear a little more once the screen actually gets out of the rendering and onto the stage.
-CTC Staff
