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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Explore.org has lots of animal cams, lots of live ones too, they’re great although not always the highest quality.
10 hours of rain in the forest is my jam.
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
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.
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.
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.
Reminds me of Total Recall