Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research

Organized people are just too lazy to look for things!

After a little more research, I’m starting to think a 3 monitor configuration may be ideal. Also, I understand that while 24″ and 26″ seems to be better than 18″, there may be some evidence to suggest a decrease in productivity at displays of >= 26″ (at least according to one study). But Al Gore above is obviously not following this advice with his triple 30″ set up. Actually what I like best about this picture is that it makes my desk look neat in comparison

After Thursday’s post someone also mentioned 3-D Virtual Desktops to me as an option, especially virtual desk top cubes. But I don’t think these are so much better than alt-tabbing between various applications. An exception might be combining them with multiple operating systems on one larger monitor, if that is something you need. I found an example video of Quad Operating Systems on a 3d virtual desktop ‘cube’. Looks like they have Windows, Mac, Linux etc. running together:

More interesting is probably glasses. I’m not thinking the kind with the monitors inside the lenses, but rather the glasses are used for head tracking to tell the PC/monitor where you are. I thought this video using wii as an example was interesting and may be telling of what is to come:

Some providers to check out:
Cinemassive Displays, (explains why to give multimon a try).
Digital Tigers

Tom