we should make them smaller, i want them to be the size of a stick of gum

Originally posted by salamander:

we should make them smaller, i want them to be the size of a stick of gum

Why would you ever want that?

as narrow as a stick of gum but 12 feet tall.

Originally posted by TV-MA:

Originally posted by salamander:

we should make them smaller, i want them to be the size of a stick of gum

Why would you ever want that?

in case i get hungry i guess. and small things are cute

They are basically making monitors wider because of games using realistic field of view. We see more horizontally than we do vertically. From google:

The human field of view (FOV) is the angular extent of the observable world visible at any given moment without moving the eyes or head. The maximum human FOV is approximately 200 degrees horizontally and 135 degrees vertically, encompassing both monocular and binocular vision.
Each individual eye has a horizontal FOV of about 135 degrees and a vertical FOV of just over 180 degrees, with the overlapping binocular FOV providing depth perception across roughly 114 degrees horizontally.

It's called portrait mode

You can just rotate a wide monitor and it becomes tall.
Try it sometime, it's actually pretty underrated IMO.

Something about square displays is unsettling. Even 16:10 aspect ration is weird.
I think it's also easier to concentrate on a wide image and look left and right rather than up and down.

If only you could rotate them 90 degrees.

Because human eyes scan side to side easier than they do up and down.

Originally posted by TV-MA:

Originally posted by salamander:

we should make them smaller, i want them to be the size of a stick of gum

Why would you ever want that?

See more information at a glance with less vertical scrolling. Great for the office for viewing long documents, lists, and spreadsheets. Webpages look great, too.

https://youtu.be/RQI_NmaDU5o

Beginning part of this video explained it for me, surface PCs had 16:10 high quality monitors very rare so he tried making it an independent monitor.

You might like the Samsung ark (Either Gen 2 or Gen 3) monitor. It can rotate as desired.

I wouldn't suggest the Generation 1, but rather the others and only if you have the graphics card to juice it. It's a 4K monitor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcbLxShffDk

Wide screen is more for gaming upon, while vertical is ideal for work purposes. You get the best of both worlds.