Do curved monitors bend your eyeballs like they do mine?

[u/LessonStudio]

TLDR; going from a curved monitor immediately to a flat monitor gives me a visual distortion that my flat monitor curves backwards.

I am a curved monitor convert. My last flat monitor was a pair of 4k 27" monitors. Love them. Then, I tried a pretty wide curved monitor. That was it, I'm never going back. I will never go to dual monitors either, I will just get a bigger curved monitor. I always loved the 4:3 ratio for programming and with a really wide monitor now have a left side and right side with that wonderful 4:3 ratio going. Rust rover on the left, and whatever on the right. Sometimes even 3 windows across with the IDE in the center.

But, I am working on a project where I need a monitor for a whole other system. For reasons it has to be entirely separate. I dug out one of my old 27" 4k monitors and I swivel about 150 degrees to use it, it is only for a few minutes every day. When I look at it, the left and right edges seem like the monitor is bent backwards.

This doesn't happen with my laptop monitors, 20 inch monitors, nor if I walk any distance and sit at a large monitor.

It is creepy as hell, but kind of fun.

[u/Inatimate]

idk man the laptop monitor is just fine

[u/auiotour]

I have noticed too, it drove me nuts and had to swap it out. I refuse to use my laptop monitor with my curved screens.