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CES 2008: Alienware Curved Monitor Interview
Posted By: Brian Leahy - Tuesday, January 15, 2008 3:45 PM

One of the coolest things we saw at CES 2008 was Alienware's curved monitor prototype that hopes to finally address the issues of peripheral vision in games.

The monitor is equivalent to two 24" LCDs and looks amazing running Crysis.

Check out our interview now and look forward to this tech releasing in about 6 months.

Comment(s)

Posted by mberko1 - Tuesday, January 15, 2008 4:22 PM
my weiner's got more curves than that thing
Posted by TheRufio - Tuesday, January 15, 2008 4:37 PM
That's completely unnecessary.
Posted by slimmer - Tuesday, January 15, 2008 4:45 PM
Unnecessary ? says you , I want one.
I do like how the guy says "it takes into consideration your peripheral vision" because games these days are not doing that and its called FOV = Field Of Vision and my guess is that that screen makes ones FOV horrible but I'm sure in the future it can be programed for.
Posted by exilesuite - Tuesday, January 15, 2008 5:47 PM
Hmmm. I never knew Crysis was a lumberjack with bullets simulator.
Posted by JaredD311 - Tuesday, January 15, 2008 6:01 PM
Well, I better start saving my pennies so I can pay the $3000 it's going to be for this sweet ass monitor
Posted by TheyTarget - Tuesday, January 15, 2008 6:59 PM
Everybody knows Crysis is a lumberjack simulator. As for the monitor, looks like it could be fun, and a nice thing to have, if I got some money hanging around. It's suppose to make stuff easier to do. I'll check it out see if it really works, though I do have all my monitors on a slight curve like that around me, so the theory seems to be already in use over here. Plus I would like a monitor that big anyway, for awesomeness.
Posted by TehMunNstR - Wednesday, January 16, 2008 4:07 AM
this and maybe add duel-layering.., personally i'm leaning on projections, eventually. however can you imagine high defs, shot in all panoramic on that.
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Posted by Fx_Avatar - Wednesday, January 16, 2008 8:26 AM
The problem with this monitor is the ultra wide view is not supported by most games. I have the triple-head to go device that allows for a ultra wide viewing angle and had found that most games knick this in the bud by setting the width of the game before allowing the height. This in effect sets your left to right viewable to the same as a 4:3 screen, and then trims your vertical so that you can’t see as much above or below. This does not seem too noticeable at first, but when you compare it someone without the ultra wide view, you see it.

In WOW, I contacted the support team to see if it was a configuration that I did not set right and was told that it was ADDED to the code of the game since people on 4:3 screens where complaining that allowing the viewable to extend past the 4:3 aspect was giving players with high end equipment an unfair advantage in PvP gaming. So they changed the coding to allow the screens, but to trim the vertical instead of extending the horizontal view.
Posted by MikeTheGreekGod - Wednesday, January 16, 2008 12:57 PM
next thing to come is the curved TV Monitors, lmao
Posted by callofdutyshooter - Wednesday, January 16, 2008 2:50 PM
haveing that for COD4 on the PC would be sick for the 58 player games
Posted by SonicNiGHT - Wednesday, January 16, 2008 11:48 PM
He means unnecessary regarding the weiners comment, not the facilitation of the greatest TV/PC screen ever made, lol.
Posted by joshandrox - Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:11 AM
Man. That looks like soooooo much fun to play on.

When did you switch to High Def ?

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