- LCD / OLED wall screens
- projectors
- laptops / larger tablets
- phones / smaller tablets
- Chromecast / Roku / Firestick types
- headup display VR types
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With the Nebula Capsule dropping price, on the back of the Nebula Mars, both in my view good starts and will get better over time but poor value today in 2018, it makes me think what you ye’all see as the future and your preference.
Most of us can buy online / shops LCD TVs with HDMI and “smart” capabilities, augmented with HDMI ports, and we have PCs with larger screens, down through tablets, phones and some can place phones into headsets to also get 3D for VR.
Do you think projectors are the best answer to seeing?
Do you think smart glasses like Google Glass will become so good you’d put one of them on to get a good visual experience (which can be focused to suit the eye to overcome eye vision defects as we become an aging population in the West).
Do you actually still sit as a family and watch the same screen together? That is a rarer event now with everyone having laptops / TVs in many more places than the 1970s era
So here are the options:
Big screens
Pros: can be made bright. The heat is spread out so they dont need fans and you can use with large good quality speakers. Good for larger social joint watching, like sports, family films.
Cons: needs a large surface. Not portable at all.
Projectors
Pros: portable, can be “dismantled”.
Cons: noisier, not very bright, worse sound.
Large computers:
Pros: high performance, on your lap. Cons: can be expensive and personally I am always nervous spilling food+drink and dropping them as heavy with that big display to crack.
Smaller computer like tablets
Pros: portable, tend to be sturdy survive a drop well, up to 10" can be quite cheap.
Cons: phones are getting larger and pulling the purpose of tablets away.
Or just use your phone? A lot of millenials seem to be happy with this option usually because they have younger better eyes
Or head up displays
Pro: portable. Con: right now super expensive for little gain. Eventually should become very good. As projecting nearer to the eye it can make a bright image without as much energy.
Do you prefer “smart” TVs or just use a dongle like a Chromecast on a “dumb” screen?
In our case we have:
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phones each
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two have laptops 13" screen
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two have tablets 10" size
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two TVs each with Chromecast
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one person has phone + large LCD + Chromecast
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one has phone + 10" tablet + 13" laptop
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one has a phone + large PC
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one has phone, small tablet, large tablet, laptop and LCD with Chromecast
Going forward I do prefer the idea of a head-up display, smart glasses or even eventually a smart set of contact lens or direct neural transmitter, because I want to stay as light and portable while connected possible.
I restricted the choice to up to 3 so you don’t pick all of them but express some kind of preference so we can see if there’s any pattern.