{"id":2117,"date":"2010-09-06T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T08:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=2117"},"modified":"2010-09-06T07:14:36","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T15:14:36","slug":"monitors-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=2117","title":{"rendered":"Monitors of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that I’ve retired yet another book project, I can return to my blog. Today’s topic: Monitors of the future. And, yes, forget about 3D.
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\nI think the whole 3D thing is stupid. There’s no point to it: The world is in 3D, but I want my information flat, thank you. That includes a computer monitor.<\/p>\n

Now I appreciate the illusion of 3D. I like drop shadows. I like flippy things. But I don’t want to wear stupid glasses to see something in “3D.”<\/p>\n

Movies can be in 3D. They will be for a time. Unless it’s done well, which was James Cameron did in Avatar<\/em>, it’s going to be a fad.<\/p>\n

Another thing I don’t see coming is transparent monitors. They were popular in Avatar and other science fiction media.<\/p>\n

The advantage of transparent monitors is that you can see through them. That advantage is only evident for dramatic purposes; it’s cool to see someone’s expression when they’re using a computer. It makes for a more interesting camera angle. That’s it.<\/p>\n

In real life, a transparent monitor would be a pain in the ass. Your eyes would lose focus. Bright objects behind the monitor would obscure what you see.<\/p>\n

My experience shows that a majority of all computers are positioned by a window, often right in front of the window. That’s not going to work for transparency.<\/p>\n

One trend I do see happening, and which was shown in Avatar<\/em>, is the curved monitor.<\/p>\n

Monitors are getting larger. My new iMac has a 27-inch screen. That’s huge. Any larger, and I wouldn’t be able to see the left and right sides of the screen. Or, to see them, I’d have to sit about 4 feet away from the monitor.<\/p>\n

The solution is simple: curve the screen.<\/p>\n

My guess is that you’ll see curved screen monitors appear sporadically. There are already expensive, boutique monitors, such as the Ostendo CRVD<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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That’s 47-inches at over $6000.<\/p>\n

Eventually, I predict, Apple will come out with a curved screen iMac. That would legitimize the market, and open the floodgates for all the other manufacturers to sell curved monitors and for users to demand them.<\/p>\n

I don’t think it would be a wild curve, just a subtle arc. But I think it will improve visibility, and allow monitors to get larger without becoming useless.<\/p>\n

The final step? Retina display monitors. That is, monitors with a resolution so high that the human eye cannot detect the pixels. That would be something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that I’ve retired yet another book project, I can return to my blog. Today’s topic: Monitors of the future. And, yes, forget about 3D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2124,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions\/2124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}