My monitor strategy

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I have a Samsung triple display which is starting to get a little long in the tooth and not 4K. I plan on buying both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift for gaming but I want a really nice, large display for everything else.

I have a very large curved OLED TV in my bedroom and I just have to believe we are on the verge of seeing curved OLED monitors with gsync and so on. So, I'm holding off on monitor purchases and focusing on VR until we see a new wave of curved OLED monitors... anyone else thinking similar?
 
Virtual Reality is a bust until they start selling them with decent games I wouldn't hold my breath.
I think VR is unnatural for the eyes.
 
I think a reasonable priced OLED monitor (nonprofessional) is still pretty far off, if it ever happens.

I'm also not a huge fan of VR. While it is very cool, it still feels gimmicky to me.

I think your best bet right now is to get one big monitor and call it a day. A 40" curved 4k ips with gsync or a 34" 21:9 1440p ips with gsync is the best option IMO.
 
Interesting ideas thanks. I guess I had a different experience with VR. I've had about twelve hours of play time with the Occulus Rift and about two hours with the Vive and it was a complete game changer for me. So much so that I can't enjoy my current non-VR gaming.

I like the 1440 idea. 1080 is too short and 4K is too expensive/hard to drive.
 
VR is revolutionary technology, no doubt about it. In the news couple days ago they featured couple guys playing "ping-pong" and throwing various objects at each other. The graphics was atrocious -- basically sugarcoated wireframes -- perhaps it was intentional to emphasize how breathtaking the whole new world is.

Compared to VR, OLED is just minor improvements in picture quality. After all, LCD picture quality is pretty outstanding right now, and by law of diminishing returns it is hard to impress people with minor incremental improvement (and, more important, to convince them to pay a premium). To summarize, OLED fad is just a bunch of plasmaphiles who can't get over the demise of their favorite medium.
 
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We're probably still 5 years off from a $2000 65" 4K OLED TV (assuming costs drop 20% a year), much less a $1000 32" 4K OLED display--that's probably even more years away.
 
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