Samsung has announced the Odyssey Ark, a curved monitor that can be turned on its side

Curved screens had been typically launched to make the viewing expertise extra immersive. When you’re enjoying a sport or watching a film, having the edges of the monitor curve in direction of you can make you’re feeling such as you’re in the stated sport or film.

However is there a marketplace for a vertically positioned, curved monitor? Samsung is about to search out out.

On Tuesday, the firm announced the Samsung Odyssey Ark, a large, curvy monitor that can be pivoted to the side and utilized in vertical place.

The small print on the gadget are very scarce; we all know it has a 55-inch, 4K show panel with a 16:9 facet ratio, and comes with a wi-fi dial controller that you can use to handle lighting and interface. It additionally has a height-adjustable stand with pivot and tilt performance.

You can additionally use the Ark in a normal, horizontal orientation.
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Samsung says all of this gives “optimum consolation,” which ought to make it “excellent for individuals doing all the things from modifying to gaming at house.” However players will nearly all the time go for a normal, horizontal orientation. And even when you stack a couple of those side-to-side for a large, curvy, multi-monitor, vertical expertise, the advantages over normal, flat screens (and even curved screens stacked horizontally on prime of each other) are unclear. It appears cool, although.

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There is not any phrase on worth or when the Odyssey Ark could hit the market.