Artificial light. No parallax. Super bright bulb throwing light across the room unless you get a short throw projector, and this is going to get hot and noisy with the fan in an enclosed room for extended periods.
Your TV solution sounds better.
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corvi@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
Honestly if you don’t have a ton of other options, I don’t hate this. I always wanted to get several super thin flatscreens and set them up playing 24/7 nature livestreams from different sources. It would be like gazing out portals to different parts of nature.
Sure, being out in nature would be better, but it’s better than blank walls and parking lots.
cRazi_man@europe.pub 16 hours ago
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
You can get decent projectors that are very small now.
asbestos@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Do you have any recommendations? I like these ideas
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
These are the two my wife chose between for use with her art
18107@aussie.zone 9 hours ago
Get a Looking Glass display (ignore the price, you didn’t need that mega yacht anyway).
Rooskie91@discuss.online 15 hours ago
This reminded me of a character, Martin Silenus from Hyperion Cantos, who has a mansion. In that mansion all of the doors are actually portals. So when you walk into a new room you’re walking into a new room on a different world. So like your living room is on Earth but your dining room could be on the moon. Always thought that was a cool idea.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
I loved the concept of Peter F Hamilton’s Commonwealth saga. People invent wormhole technology. Interstellar colonization is done by opening wormholes directly to alien worlds. Except the tech isn’t cheap or easy. IIRC they described an interstellar generator as made of half a cubic kilometer of intricate machinery. They’re giant machines that can open portals to distant star systems.
Because of the immense expense, they need to make maximum use of these gateways. The generators operate on regular schedules, connecting to different worlds in the human sphere of colonization. And to make maximum use of the gateways…they run trains through them. You travel to a distant star system by buying a train ticket.
Rooskie91@discuss.online 14 hours ago
Nice, adding that book to the list.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Yeah I recommend. The chief antagonist of the series, Morning Light Mountain, is one of the best examples of a truly “alien” alien that I’ve read in sci fi. It’s about as far from the trope that aliens are just humans with crap glued to their foreheads, or stand-ins for various real-world human cultures, as you can get.
LilDumpy@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
It’s fun and games until the portals turn off and you’re stuck in your house… Or on your toilet in the middle of an ocean.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 12 hours ago
I generally play a burning fire vid on my Philips Ambilight at night. It’s a delight.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
Reminds me of Total Recall
frunch@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Another option i was thinking about just earlier today is the “nature” wallpaper that used to be a thing back in the 70s or so. Whole walls covered in giant photos of rainforests etc. I still see them in customers houses on occasion, usually sun-faded which kinda adds its own ambiance
morrowind@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
If prefer if it was a live stream of somewhere nearby. Maybe not as pretty but it’s closer to actually seeing outdoors
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 16 hours ago
I’ve thought about doing this in my basement rec room to make it feel more “open”. Plan is to take a couple spare flat screens I’m not using, build a wood window frame around them, and put some curtains over them to further sell the effect.
Just haven’t figured out a way to drive them besides sticking a raspberry pi on each one. That would also let me make them “real” windows if I want to feed in the camera views from outside.
eRac@lemmings.world 14 hours ago
You should look at a set tour for Technology Connections on YouTube.
His backdrop is a wall of cube organizers with interesting objects and artifacts from previous episodes. Each cube is backlit, some with flat colors and some with pictures.
The backlights are actually TV screens displaying an array of images that align with the edges of the cubes.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
There are a lot of long nature videos on youtube meant for this purpose - some with relaxing music, some without. I’ll occasionally play one on a TV when I know I’m going to be bouncing around the house all day, and it’s nice.
I don’t know of any actual livestreams like that, but some zoos have livestreams of their aquariums or exhibits that are cool too.
beccaboben@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Explore.org has lots of animal cams, lots of live ones too, they’re great although not always the highest quality.
weariedfae@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
10 hours of rain in the forest is my jam.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
zoo cams are awesome
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
The Monterey Bay Aquarium otters are my favorite.