The ultimate desk accessory, literally

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

You may have seen a blog post from the other day that referred to a semi-circular projector screen that can envelop the user in an image – the jDome - which has seemingly endless possibilities in the realms of immersive movie-watching. Or, alternatively, immersive game-playing: imagine hiking through the jungles of Crysis, or battling through battalions of enemies in Call of Duty 4 with bombs exploding literally all around you.

One flaw quickly arose, though, and sparked debate in the PC Pro office – how would you play a game when you have to stand, surrounded, by the screen? The general consensus was that you’d need some sort of strap-on desk, on which a keyboard, mouse or laptop could be held and used.

Of course, this was a mere pipe-dream: an answer to a problem that, surely, will rarely exist, and one too silly to seriously contemplate. A bit like the jDome itself, in fact. Consider our surprised when that exact object of our fascination arrived, unannounced, in the PC Pro Labs.

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