Saturday, June 26, 2021

Wall screens ~

When I watch science fiction movies I always marvel at the technology that people imagine. One of the things that I see in some movies that I really hope and look forward to using is the wall screen.

Basically the entire wall becomes a screen of some kind. Usually not touchscreen but could be. Usually controlled by voice or just ambient you know controlled by some system. But when I see a wall that can be a window on the world or show you peaceful forest scenes or water scenes or I give you a view of what's through the wall without anyone being able to see you I am just amazed and hopeful.

I saw one example of wall screens that was amazing but I did not like. In one of those series on Netflix, I think it was black mirror, they had an episode where in the near future people were always indoors. And they had to generate electricity in order to survive. They were put in a small room to stay in and the walls were all screens. As the guy progressed he was able to get a bigger and bigger room but the walls were still screens and completely controlled by some system.

I try to do something on the wall screen scale myself. On my desk at home I have a 40 inch flatscreen TV that I use as a monitor. I will search YouTube for ambient beach, forest, river, and other scenery videos that are 2 to 8 to 10 hours long. And I will put them on what I'm working at home at my desk as a sort of window. Instead of feeling cooped up I feel like him looking out at the scene. So it feels like I'm at the beach I just don't have sand between my toes and wind blowing in my hair.

I look forward to when all screens become a reality. I know that they have some screens that are flexible LED things that can rollout and cover almost an entire wall. That's getting close! I have a projector in my basement that turns the wall into a really big screen but it's not the same because if you stand up and get between the projector in the wall you see your shadow. So, or getting close. Fun stuff!