Jacques Tits generalised the notion of a "polarity" in order to describe all embeddable polar spaces. We further extend it to the notion of "generalised duality". We use it to classify and describe all geometric hyperplanes of a Segre geometry, which is the direct product of two arbitrary projective spaces. This result, in turn, can be applied to Segre varieties over arbitrary fields and we obtain an explicit list of all geometric hyperplanes that are not induced by a projective hyperplane. Among them are so-called black hyperplanes, which are embedded long root geometries of type A, and we will mention some special features about those.