Technology

I'm still waiting for hexagon monitors as they are clearly the bestagon.

I thought this was an Onion article a few wks ago

I could totally see using this as a display wall. *Kyle in a bunch of them as a store display or a small display.

*When you ask for tile and google gives you Kyle.

"our market research shows an increased in interest in 22* displays in the last quarter"

Triangular monitors with 22 degree corners

The Internet was and continues to be a mistake.

Said a guy on the internet

lets* you rotate

it always used to be using the windows command to rotate the screen, this will just add a new layer of confusion.

...or as they are using linux it will probably be seen as a good challenge

And a gyroscope to rotate the image so it doesn't rotate when rotating the display.

Really my triple monitor set up works without a hitch

Make it spin at 3600rpm to simulate a circular surface

Alt-Azmuth mount

It would be interesting to have an app that tilted your screen to see what it would look like from other places on the globe. I'm sometimes curious about the angle offset I have with various other parts of the world.

Though you'd need to be able to rotate in two dimensions to properly capture the differences on a globe. It might be able to, if it's rendering the desktop to a 3d surface and applying the rotation to that.

Actually, even cooler would be to have an actuator that would physically rotate the monitor around all 3 axii instead of rotating what it displays.

Iirc Wayland as a protocol supports rotation of Window surfaces. I'm not sure if any of the compositors have exposed it as an option. Maybe Weston

** for one very specific version of "best"

For correcting Dutch Angle video... Obviously.

The use case I see is screens mounted on something that moves.

It's easy with accelerometers to know the orientation, so you can display things on something that in its whole or has parts that move in an additive way.

Imagine an movie screening with the screen mounted on a float in the ocean.

The float moves with the waves. You can stabilize the image of the movie to be still while the screen itself tilts.

Something like this, but then with a direct screen instead of a projected one.

Another use case would be applying this to smartwatches or other displays like that.

You could make the output of the screen always be perfectly aligned with your line of sight rather than have it tilted at an angle parallel with your arm.