The library in the church my parents made me go to growing up had a full on fake window with a painting recessed maybe 4 feet behind it.
In the cave
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jawa21@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
corvi@lemmy.zip 12 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.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 45 minutes ago
Reminds me of Total Recall
frunch@lemmy.world 46 minutes 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
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 12 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.
weariedfae@sh.itjust.works 47 minutes ago
10 hours of rain in the forest is my jam.
beccaboben@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Explore.org has lots of animal cams, lots of live ones too, they’re great although not always the highest quality.
cRazi_man@europe.pub 12 hours ago
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.
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
You can get decent projectors that are very small now.
18107@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
Get a Looking Glass display (ignore the price, you didn’t need that mega yacht anyway).
Rooskie91@discuss.online 11 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.
LilDumpy@lemmy.world 3 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.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 10 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.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
I generally play a burning fire vid on my Philips Ambilight at night. It’s a delight.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 9 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 12 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 10 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.
DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
I’m pretty sure its illegal to advertise a windowless room as a bedroom in Canada.
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 30 minutes ago
Basement windows have to be larger than a specific standard. In your basement window is a foot high, that no longer counts as a bedroom iirc
DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 27 minutes ago
Which gives you really fucky barred windows that face a cement wall the same size as the window, that lets in less light than an angled window 1/4 of the size.
PS: fuck illegal basement suites in new builds in Vancouver.
notabot@piefed.social 2 hours ago
It might not be windowless; consider midwinter, when a real window will just be a dark rectangle for most of the important parts of the morning and evening. Having a fake window showing somewhere bright and warm could help lift one's spirits if you didn't think about it too much.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
or if you’re neuro spicy you probably have blackout curtains so daylight doesn’t matter anyway.
i love my blackout curtains.
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Me visiting cool places in vr:
“Hey cool, we made a smaller cave inside the cave!”
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 12 hours ago
It’s amazing how many TikTok users don’t realise they’re just scrolling through ads.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
You could do the same thing with a painting and a dim light. Just wouldn’t move. Assuming there are ”fake window” screen saver things for projectors.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Every 467 hours a shadowy figure peeks it’s head into the corner
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 29 minutes ago
Tap tap tap
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Even when the windows are fake, you put in the panels! Give me an unobscured view!
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
the ilusion of the window is more important than the view
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Plenty of windows are just one big pane.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
That would be quite a lot of chest to clutch
niktemadur@lemmy.world 56 minutes ago
This was originally a Warhol idea, wasn’t it?
A six hour film of the Empire State building, as the day goes and the lighting changes, I think it was meant as like a window from an apartment or office right in the thick of Manhattan.
Truth be told, I don’t hate the idea. Currently, it could be a framed digital screen on a loop, or showing a webcam feed. Why not a live view of Istanbul, or of the Moroccan desert?