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I don't like straight displays, things at the corners are a different size than things in the middle, because they are further from my head. On curved displays,

by drcode 1y ago

I don't like straight displays, things at the corners are a different size than things in the middle, because they are further from my head. On curved displays, objects on different areas of the screen are the same size as they originally appeared.

bill876 1y ago
> On curved displays, objects on different areas of the screen are the same size This is only true if your eyes are in the focus point (center of the circle) and you never move your head or chair.
- crooked-v 1y ago
  That's why you gotta get yourself one of these, obviously: https://www.ergoquest.com/zero-gravity-workstation-0a.html https://www.ergoquest.com/zero-gravity-workstation-0a.html
  - hu3 1y ago
    Or this: https://imperatorworks.com/index.php/gm-520 https://imperatorworks.com/index.php/gm-520
- jovial_cavalier 1y ago
  It's much closer to true on a curved screen than a flat screen.
Joker_vD 1y ago
Yeah, projecting onto a plane instead of a... spherical dome? means that things at the border of your screen are more visible than the things at its middle which definitely not how eyes usually work. It's especially glaring when the far plane serves as the place where the view-distance limiting fog is rendered: if there is some thing barely visible before you, turn 45% to the side, and you'll see that thing very clearly at the side of your view.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
  I'd go absolutely apeshit over a 4:3 dome curved screen.
diggan 1y ago
> I don't like straight displays, things at the corners are a different size than things in the middle, because they are further from my head. Are you sitting really close or have a really enormous monitor? Measuring how I'm sitting right now, my nose is exactly 61cm from the center-center of my monitor, and ~72cm between my nose and any of the corners, and it's a 32" monitor. I'm usually sensitive to things not being 100% straight/level/aligned, and if I create five identically sized windows and put them in the middle and one in each corner, I see no difference between them.
- marginalia_nu 1y ago
  The distortion is mostly a problem with ultrawide monitors, which typically have the pixel density of a regular 16:9 monitor, but with twice as width. Flat ultrawides are an especially miserable experience, where the sides of the monitor are viewed at a 60 degree angle, a pronounced deviation from the 90 degree angle in the middle.
izacus 1y ago
Yep, that's what I noticed when I got a 34" ultrawide. After swapping for a 38" curved screen, the experience is better.

by drcode 1y ago

bill876 1y ago

> On curved displays, objects on different areas of the screen are the same size This is only true if your eyes are in the focus point (center of the circle) and you never move your head or chair.

crooked-v 1y ago
That's why you gotta get yourself one of these, obviously: https://www.ergoquest.com/zero-gravity-workstation-0a.html https://www.ergoquest.com/zero-gravity-workstation-0a.html
- hu3 1y ago
  Or this: https://imperatorworks.com/index.php/gm-520 https://imperatorworks.com/index.php/gm-520
jovial_cavalier 1y ago
It's much closer to true on a curved screen than a flat screen.

Joker_vD 1y ago

Yeah, projecting onto a plane instead of a... spherical dome? means that things at the border of your screen are more visible than the things at its middle which definitely not how eyes usually work. It's especially glaring when the far plane serves as the place where the view-distance limiting fog is rendered: if there is some thing barely visible before you, turn 45% to the side, and you'll see that thing very clearly at the side of your view.

rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
I'd go absolutely apeshit over a 4:3 dome curved screen.

diggan 1y ago

> I don't like straight displays, things at the corners are a different size than things in the middle, because they are further from my head. Are you sitting really close or have a really enormous monitor? Measuring how I'm sitting right now, my nose is exactly 61cm from the center-center of my monitor, and ~72cm between my nose and any of the corners, and it's a 32" monitor. I'm usually sensitive to things not being 100% straight/level/aligned, and if I create five identically sized windows and put them in the middle and one in each corner, I see no difference between them.

marginalia_nu 1y ago
The distortion is mostly a problem with ultrawide monitors, which typically have the pixel density of a regular 16:9 monitor, but with twice as width. Flat ultrawides are an especially miserable experience, where the sides of the monitor are viewed at a 60 degree angle, a pronounced deviation from the 90 degree angle in the middle.

izacus 1y ago

Yep, that's what I noticed when I got a 34" ultrawide. After swapping for a 38" curved screen, the experience is better.