--- title: This underrated desk upgrade finally made my OLED... description: A QD-OLED monitor owner shares how the BenQ ScreenBar Halo 2 light bar reduced eye strain caused by the panel's bright quantum-dot colors. The light bar... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/this-underrated-desk-upgrade-finally-made-my-oled-monitor-easier-on-my-eyes-u4k49l3fy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: This underrated desk upgrade finally made my OLED monitor easier on my eyes | daily.dev og:description: A QD-OLED monitor owner shares how the BenQ ScreenBar Halo 2 light bar reduced eye strain caused by the panel's bright quantum-dot colors. The light bar... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/this-underrated-desk-upgrade-finally-made-my-oled-monitor-easier-on-my-eyes-u4k49l3fy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/U4k49L3Fy.png og:image:alt: This underrated desk upgrade finally made my OLED monitor easier on my eyes og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # This underrated desk upgrade finally made my OLED monitor easier on my eyes **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A QD-OLED monitor owner shares how the BenQ ScreenBar Halo 2 light bar reduced eye strain caused by the panel's bright quantum-dot colors. The light bar illuminates the desk area without lighting the whole room, reduces contrast between screen brightness and ambient light, and adds bias lighting with presence detection. Downsides include altered monitor aesthetics and possible screen reflections, though it fits the reviewer's 1800R curved screen, the max curvature supported. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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