{"id":874,"date":"2014-11-13T10:39:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T10:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markdavidscott.com\/?p=874"},"modified":"2014-11-13T10:39:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T10:39:46","slug":"optimal-viewing-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markdavidscott.com\/?p=874","title":{"rendered":"Optimal Viewing Distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THX recommends a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cedia.org\/blog\/how-to-select-the-right-screen-size-for-your-room\">36 degree viewing arc<\/a> when\u00a0setting up a screen for an optimal viewing experience. \u00a0Sit a little closer in an actual movie theatre, and it&#8217;s apparently about 54 degrees\u00a0&#8211; unless you paid extra for the IMAX experience, in which case you might get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imax.com\/community\/blog\/imax-101-theatre-geometry-video\/\">up to 70 degrees<\/a>\u00a0from some seats, supposedly creating a more immersive experience.<\/p>\n<p>Leo, however,\u00a0finds these recommendations highly inadequate. \u00a0Fortunately, he was able to rearrange a seat at the Disney Store to suit his expectations:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mdscott.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-rNcQQ9c\/1\/O\/i-rNcQQ9c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/mdscott.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-rNcQQ9c\/1\/M\/i-rNcQQ9c-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At least Oculus and other VR companies apparently have a target customer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THX recommends a 36 degree viewing arc when\u00a0setting up a screen for an optimal viewing experience. \u00a0Sit a little closer in an actual movie theatre, and it&#8217;s apparently about 54 degrees\u00a0&#8211; unless you paid extra for the IMAX experience, in which case you might get up to 70 degrees\u00a0from some seats, supposedly creating a more immersive experience. Leo, however,\u00a0finds these recommendations highly inadequate. \u00a0Fortunately, he was able to rearrange a seat at the Disney Store to suit his expectations: At least Oculus and other VR companies apparently have a target customer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markdavidscott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markdavidscott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markdavidscott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markdavidscott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markdavidscott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/markdavidscott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"https:\/\/markdavidscott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markdavidscott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markdavidscott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markdavidscott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}