So I am disillusioned.
You know I have been thinking on what to do when I add a gaming machine for a couple years. Now it looks like just a couple months away, and all my delusions of grandeur came crashing down when I discovered recently that the super ultra-wide displays don't actually have as many pixels as you'd think, and the resolution is much better on much cheaper monitors. In my instance, there is no point in buying a bigger monitor if I have to place it farther from me. I'd actually prefer as small a footprint as possible since I expect to be in a studio for a year, and my gaming machine is only for one person. So I'm rethinking the huge wrap around U shaped desk and three enormous monitors, not just for economic reasons, but because the bloody thing won't fit easily and what's the point if it doesn't provide a better experience?
So here's what I need: an AV center for one, that provides great gaming, internet and TV, can play DVDs and Blue Ray discs, and that has a view to each side so I can plan attacks from my Sentinel. I need to be able to glance sideways and see that pesky Hornet that has a mouthful of distortion shot coming.
So. . .in a radical departure I am considering the following:
I should point out that I have heard the arguments that the twin Virpils ought to be mounted to the desk, and here there is no desk. However, I prefer the sticks mounted to the chair so I can rest my arms, and if there is no desk to get in the way of the sticks, mounting them on the chair is suddenly a great idea.
There's the little tray--room enough for a backlit keyboard. The computer can go on the floor behind the stand. The twin bars offer plenty of opportunity to mount an articulated triple mount sufficient for 32" monitors, but used for 27" so there is enough room to actually turn the side monitors in, forming a cocoon of sorts, reminding of Dark Vader's digs and giving me best view of the insolent Hornet. Yeah, its less work to have the monitor out front so you don't have to turn your head, but it seems to me way cooler to have to turn your head. I want the immersion.
Also there is room for a pair of gooseneck tablet holders, so I can add the super-controls peeps have been glorying about, and stick them anywhere I want, whenever I want. (I think one for power management and the other for discord? I still have never been on discord but comms either needs its own station or OHura, and I can't afford her salary.
So what am I not considering?
So this is radical for me. . .no desk. OTOH, this is the tiniest footprint in the studio I can imagine past VR, and I don't ant VR. I want to see my twin sticks.
You guys know better than anyone what works, so. . .I really want to know what I haven't considered here.
You know I have been thinking on what to do when I add a gaming machine for a couple years. Now it looks like just a couple months away, and all my delusions of grandeur came crashing down when I discovered recently that the super ultra-wide displays don't actually have as many pixels as you'd think, and the resolution is much better on much cheaper monitors. In my instance, there is no point in buying a bigger monitor if I have to place it farther from me. I'd actually prefer as small a footprint as possible since I expect to be in a studio for a year, and my gaming machine is only for one person. So I'm rethinking the huge wrap around U shaped desk and three enormous monitors, not just for economic reasons, but because the bloody thing won't fit easily and what's the point if it doesn't provide a better experience?
So here's what I need: an AV center for one, that provides great gaming, internet and TV, can play DVDs and Blue Ray discs, and that has a view to each side so I can plan attacks from my Sentinel. I need to be able to glance sideways and see that pesky Hornet that has a mouthful of distortion shot coming.
So. . .in a radical departure I am considering the following:
I should point out that I have heard the arguments that the twin Virpils ought to be mounted to the desk, and here there is no desk. However, I prefer the sticks mounted to the chair so I can rest my arms, and if there is no desk to get in the way of the sticks, mounting them on the chair is suddenly a great idea.
There's the little tray--room enough for a backlit keyboard. The computer can go on the floor behind the stand. The twin bars offer plenty of opportunity to mount an articulated triple mount sufficient for 32" monitors, but used for 27" so there is enough room to actually turn the side monitors in, forming a cocoon of sorts, reminding of Dark Vader's digs and giving me best view of the insolent Hornet. Yeah, its less work to have the monitor out front so you don't have to turn your head, but it seems to me way cooler to have to turn your head. I want the immersion.
Also there is room for a pair of gooseneck tablet holders, so I can add the super-controls peeps have been glorying about, and stick them anywhere I want, whenever I want. (I think one for power management and the other for discord? I still have never been on discord but comms either needs its own station or OHura, and I can't afford her salary.
So what am I not considering?
So this is radical for me. . .no desk. OTOH, this is the tiniest footprint in the studio I can imagine past VR, and I don't ant VR. I want to see my twin sticks.
You guys know better than anyone what works, so. . .I really want to know what I haven't considered here.