Comment by Aurornis
15 hours ago
> 40 degrees of FoV is massive for a single monitor! I'm sitting here wondering how much you have to turn your head to use this size monitor up close
You move your eyes, not your head. Plus or minus 20 degrees is a trivial amount of eye movement.
Most people are fine with this. Your requirement to comfortably see everything with minimal eye/head movement is atypical.
Even if you do have to move your head, that’s not a bad thing. A little head movement during long computing sessions is helpful.
> You move your eyes, not your head. Plus or minus 20 degrees is a trivial amount of eye movement.
Maybe this varies a lot between humans, because I'm trying the experiment, and any closer than 24 inches requires physically moving my head to comfortably read text in the corner of the 32" display.
Even at 36" it's fatiguing to focus on a corner of the display solely through eye-movement for more than a few seconds.
> Your requirement to comfortably see everything with minimal eye/head movement is atypical
I don't think it's by any means an uncommon requirement. Movie-watchers want to be able to see the whole screen at once (with the exception of some intentionally-over-the-top IMAX theatres), gamers want to be able to see their radar/heath/ammo/etc in the corners of the screen. I'd like to be able to notice notifications arriving in the corner of the screen.