I agree. This is essentially where we're heading. Monitors/TVs are getting bigger and bigger, we moved to widescreen to get a more panoramic viewport, there's now even curved LCDs made for more immersive gaming. Eventually we'll just hop into a half-sphere (or maybe full-sphere), like Disneyland's panorama theater (or whatever the heck that thing was called).
the "pixels" toward the edges would be all stretched because of the curvature of the hemisphere. i fail to see how this is any better than a bigger monitor.
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This idea, only more professionally implemented and 100x less shitty, could be really cool.
Like.... ceiling mounted over my bed? totally!
Got to give them the thumbs up for using google sketchup tho
I agree. This is essentially where we're heading. Monitors/TVs are getting bigger and bigger, we moved to widescreen to get a more panoramic viewport, there's now even curved LCDs made for more immersive gaming. Eventually we'll just hop into a half-sphere (or maybe full-sphere), like Disneyland's panorama theater (or whatever the heck that thing was called).
the "pixels" toward the edges would be all stretched because of the curvature of the hemisphere. i fail to see how this is any better than a bigger monitor.
Like this perhaps.
The "iDome" provides a full, correct 180 field of view, no stretching.
http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/projection/UnityiDome/
The downside is that a game needs to be modified to create the fisheye projections