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I have been a Flight sim junkie for some time now.. I had always dreamed of a Big screen for running my Flight Simulators on.. WEll back in 2010 it became a reality altho I started off rather small for a Projector..
The screen was 45" with a Projector and I used some Screen goo for the paint.. Well shooting forwad to 2015 I had built a bit bigger of a screen and curved this time..
I dubbed it Nephilims Virtual Flight simulator.. I had discovered Curved screens long time back but since the warping software at the time was in the thousands of dollars a curved screen was out of reach.
Well along came nThusim and brought the cost down to enthusiasts to within grasp of us mere mortals.. Well I went ahead and bought nThusim at that time I had a 3 Projector setp but it was a planar setup so no real need for nthusim..
Well I got in contact with Brad over at nThusim and he had much experience with building curved screens.. So after about 2 weeks designing and all I cam up with a 10'x4' 7'arc my dream was finally realized.. here are some pics of the build process and such:
The Icing on the cake for me is it is a NVidia 3D Vision certified system for a total immersion.. I ran a mission in DCSW last night and it was totally immersive I almost felt I was really there..
I had painted the Screen with Behrs Silver screen paint and the result was fabulous. I am now looking to buy a iDisplay Pro to calibrate the 3 displays for better color matching as it is pretty bad and My fiddling with it is making it worse hehe!!
https://www.xrite.com/i1display-pro
I will try adjusting the gamma for now, I was looking into a ISF calibration but that was going to be very expensive for 3 Projectors.. So the iDisplay Pro should fit the bill nicely..
here are my PC Specs:
1. Intel i5 3570K @ 4.3ghz
2. Asus P8Z68-V Gen 3 motherboard.
3. Windows 7 64bit SP1
4. eVGA 980GTX SC
5. 3 Acer 1261P DLP PRojectors.
6. Coolermaster HAF 932 case
7. Buttkicker Simulation
8. Thrustmaster Cougar F16 Joystick Replica HOTAS
9. Thrustmaster Cougar MFD's
10. Creative 7.1 speaker system
I have been a Flight sim junkie for some time now.. I had always dreamed of a Big screen for running my Flight Simulators on.. WEll back in 2010 it became a reality altho I started off rather small for a Projector..
The screen was 45" with a Projector and I used some Screen goo for the paint.. Well shooting forwad to 2015 I had built a bit bigger of a screen and curved this time..
I dubbed it Nephilims Virtual Flight simulator.. I had discovered Curved screens long time back but since the warping software at the time was in the thousands of dollars a curved screen was out of reach.
Well along came nThusim and brought the cost down to enthusiasts to within grasp of us mere mortals.. Well I went ahead and bought nThusim at that time I had a 3 Projector setp but it was a planar setup so no real need for nthusim..
Well I got in contact with Brad over at nThusim and he had much experience with building curved screens.. So after about 2 weeks designing and all I cam up with a 10'x4' 7'arc my dream was finally realized.. here are some pics of the build process and such:
The Icing on the cake for me is it is a NVidia 3D Vision certified system for a total immersion.. I ran a mission in DCSW last night and it was totally immersive I almost felt I was really there..
I had painted the Screen with Behrs Silver screen paint and the result was fabulous. I am now looking to buy a iDisplay Pro to calibrate the 3 displays for better color matching as it is pretty bad and My fiddling with it is making it worse hehe!!
https://www.xrite.com/i1display-pro
I will try adjusting the gamma for now, I was looking into a ISF calibration but that was going to be very expensive for 3 Projectors.. So the iDisplay Pro should fit the bill nicely..
here are my PC Specs:
1. Intel i5 3570K @ 4.3ghz
2. Asus P8Z68-V Gen 3 motherboard.
3. Windows 7 64bit SP1
4. eVGA 980GTX SC
5. 3 Acer 1261P DLP PRojectors.
6. Coolermaster HAF 932 case
7. Buttkicker Simulation
8. Thrustmaster Cougar F16 Joystick Replica HOTAS
9. Thrustmaster Cougar MFD's
10. Creative 7.1 speaker system
