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Posted February 27, 2012
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QC: What you need to do is see about getting the companies to get around to making wrap-around monitors for home users. I'd buy it in a heartbeat if I could figure out how to make first person viewing on a game be accurate to what a person sees in real life (Humans I think have a viewing range at an angle of 150 degrees. What I mean by this is that if the monitor wraps around to the sides of yourself, things that are on the far left or far right would at the same time be viewed the same way, as a sudden glance, rather than characters having what I assume is about 100 degrees of viewing radius)
They make them. It looks like 2 of these will get you 120 degrees, which is close enough for government work. Hope you have 13 grand just lying around.

http://www.crvd.com/
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/gadgetreviews/ostendo-crvd-monitor-now-available-but-its-not-cheap/9700
Posted February 27, 2012
Join all the ideas in this post up ...

http://www.overclock.net/t/1181492/small-bezel-or-edgeless-monitors-curved-monitor-decussion

Imaging if those curved ones at the bottom were edgeless too - and then shove another layer above them.

Hmm
Posted February 27, 2012
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QC: What you need to do is see about getting the companies to get around to making wrap-around monitors for home users. I'd buy it in a heartbeat if I could figure out how to make first person viewing on a game be accurate to what a person sees in real life (Humans I think have a viewing range at an angle of 150 degrees. What I mean by this is that if the monitor wraps around to the sides of yourself, things that are on the far left or far right would at the same time be viewed the same way, as a sudden glance, rather than characters having what I assume is about 100 degrees of viewing radius)
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kodeen: They make them. It looks like 2 of these will get you 120 degrees, which is close enough for government work. Hope you have 13 grand just lying around.

http://www.crvd.com/
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/gadgetreviews/ostendo-crvd-monitor-now-available-but-its-not-cheap/9700
180 degrees, the website says that they curve at 90. I think I'll wait for the double wide though so I don't have the gap.... and I'll also wait for that lottery win.
Posted February 27, 2012
Lets see now, you will need 6 of them - 3 on the bottom, 3 on the top.
Cost per = £5,500 * 6 = £33,000

Not too much of a problem - until you count in the cost of getting xyem to fit them for you.
Posted February 27, 2012
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kodeen: What are you using this for? The monitors seem to far away to be useful for text.
It's actually fine for text.. and that is from someone who is short-sighted :P
They don't have a particularly high resolution (1280x1024) for their size (19") so the DPI is only about 85.
Posted February 27, 2012
Wow, am I the only one that can't stand more than one monitor? When I had 4 like that I couldn't stop looking at the frame around each monitor and it bugged the hell out of me
Posted February 27, 2012
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xyem: Finally finished (one of) my monitor projects.. adding 4 monitors to Jaguar (desktop machine).

I used to just have the Samsung (the one on the right). Actually feels like "my desk" now :D

For the eagle eyed viewers:

HTC Desire HD on the left
Geeksphone Zero to the right of that
The case on its side underneath the birch desk is Donkey, my home server.
On top of Donkey is my 24 port Gigabit switch, which I'm not using yet because the fans are crazyloud and need replacing.
Looks Good!
Posted February 27, 2012
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xyem: It's actually fine for text.. and that is from someone who is short-sighted :P
They don't have a particularly high resolution (1280x1024) for their size (19") so the DPI is only about 85.
Ah ha, sounds good. Of course a WM would've been a lot cheaper ;)
Posted February 27, 2012
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kodeen: Ah ha, sounds good. Of course a WM would've been a lot cheaper ;)
WM?

The 4 monitors only cost me £60.. I have another twelve of them. All in all, this project cost me about.. £80-90.
Post edited February 27, 2012 by xyem
Posted February 27, 2012
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kodeen: Ah ha, sounds good. Of course a WM would've been a lot cheaper ;)
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xyem: WM?

The 4 monitors only cost me £60.. I have another twelve of them. All in all, this project cost me about.. £80-90.
Oh, thought you'd know that one, sorry. Window Manager. Fluxbox, etc...

I'm just kidding, of course. I love the light blockers off to the side.
Posted February 27, 2012
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xyem: The 4 monitors only cost me £60.. I have another twelve of them. All in all, this project cost me about.. £80-90.
What so your planning on having 2 more boxes with 4 monitors in? What do you need so many for?
Posted February 27, 2012
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*speechless*
Posted February 27, 2012
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brianhutchison: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvI3WMYc6W4

or ...


http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/e3-2011-enormous-wrap-around-screen-setup-makes-020558667.html
That Alienware looks like a rebranded Ostendo CRVD and it's got a weird resolution. If money's no object it looks like it would be something fun to have, but I think 3 to 6 higher resolution monitors would be the better value. Even then you can see the edges of the 4 screens they put together and that'd bug me as much as the bezels would.
Posted February 27, 2012
Nice one!
I'm currently running two monitors and to be honest - that's fine for me. I am only able to really focus on one at a time so the other one usually contains static information.

My brother is running three screens though and he's thinking about upgrading to four.

What do you need them for anyway? Work?
Posted February 27, 2012
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AacRrc: Wow, am I the only one that can't stand more than one monitor? When I had 4 like that I couldn't stop looking at the frame around each monitor and it bugged the hell out of me
If it's multiple screens with the same program running, yeah, I agree. But if it's like, porn on one screen, Word on another, Firefox (for more porn) on another and a game running on the last screen, it makes sense.
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