Samsung’s 55-inch curved Odyssey Ark can rotate into a giant portrait screen
Samsung has unveiled its largest curved monitor, the 55-inch Odyssey Ark, showing its potential for both gaming and productivity. For gamers, it surrounds your field of view so you can see both ahead and to your side as you play Flight simulator, For example. But it can also be flipped 90 degrees to portrait orientation for work, showing the Zoom feed, spreadsheets, and anything else you need to see.
The Odyssey Ark is a Quantum Dot Mini LED display with a pretty sharp curvature and a 16:9 aspect ratio, unlike the 49-inch monitor’s much wider 32:9 format. Odyssey Neo G9. It can swivel and tilt via a height-adjustable stand (HAS), so you can position it at the optimal angle. It’s a nice key, because it’s so big when tilted vertically that you have to tilt your neck to see the top of the screen.
It also offers “multi-mode” options that allow users to adjust the Odyssey Ark however they want with a fully adaptive screen size to fit a game or show without affecting the display. 4K and bright, colorful images.The display also features wireless dial-up Samsung wrote in a press release.Other specs like refresh rate, color accuracy, latency, and more More has yet to be revealed, but with Mini LED you can count on a display that’s reasonably bright, fast, and color-accurate.
Samsung’s press photos only show the Odyssey Ark obliquely from above and to the side, but YouTuber Tim Schofield tweeted some images from the CES show floor. Suffice it to say it’s pretty epic when in portrait mode, essentially acting as a holographic display with its top towering over the user. Samsung plans to bring it to the US in the second half of 2022, but has yet to reveal any pricing.
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