Ultra Wide Monitors – A pain in the neck? (2020)

Here’s the big important thing that people need to know about human vision: Our visual field only spans 30 degrees to either side of our midline, meaning we can see a 60 degree field with our eye balls; without turning our head (aka rotating the neck).

We can technically “see” further out than that on either side - all the way out to about 60 degrees on either side - but at that point, we are only able to detect the presence of something, not “recognize symbols”, such as reading text in your email inbox or on an Excel sheet.

Since we know the limits of our human vision, and we know how far back we position ourselves from the screen, we can use geometry and trigonometry to calculate the maximum monitor width that we can use without straining the neck.

from Hacker News https://ift.tt/3fFGKpi