I've often thought that wall-sized retina monitors would be wonderful. People can travel the world this way without ever leaving the room.

But it might work even with the large TV monitors today. Just put a camera where the nice view is, and pipe it in to the screen.

VR has probably killed that market.

Walter you might be interested to know that London City airport's Air traffic controllers do actually use this technology. There isn't enough space for a full tower so they have a redundant camera system on site and the controllers are nearby elsewhere - this allows them to use tricks like overlaying data about aircraft onto their view, and they actually compress the whole viewing area directly onto their panels.

https://youtu.be/MsoxL6tMG_I

Interesting link. One issue I have with this is the binocular replacement system of PTZ camera system can only look in one direction at a time vs multiple people scanning in multiple places at once.

Otherwise, I like the idea. Hopefully, nobody with a backhoe starts digging into their dedicated fiber lines.

But not smell it. Neither feel it. For instance the moments where temperature, moisture, dew point make it 'just right/silken air'.

You can't smell or feel a movie, either. But they still work.

Yes. But they are still not 'the real thing'.

If you're Jeff Bezos, you brag about how large your windows are. Windows are very necessary as a selling point for Blue Origin, but since their ship can barely get out of atmo, they're still benefiting Earth's shield. We'll see how Bezos feels about those windows when/if he gets a judge to tell NASA to fund BO to build a moon mission (bwahaahahaa)