How people can handle staring 32 inch monitor at close distance?

[Vayne778]

Does your eyes feel comfortable? I have tried it and my eyes feel uncomfortable and got headache lol

 

I guess I'm stuck at 24 inch monitor for a while

[BiotechBen]

I would say it depends on brightness, I use a 32in tv as a monitor and most times am at about 36-40in (~1m)when in use and I have the brightness turned down to about 60% so it doesn't burn my eyes.

[Vayne778]

2 minutes ago, BiotechBen said:

I would say it depends on brightness, I use a 32in tv as a monitor and most times am at about 36-40in (~1m)when in use and I have the brightness turned down to about 60% so it doesn't burn my eyes.

1 meter is pretty ok...my desk only allow me at around 50 cm to the screen

[Skiiwee29]

Brightness and distance from make a huge difference. I have a 32 inch monitor myself and I sit about an arms length away from it and love it. 

[Theguywhobea]

Agree with Skiiwee29, 32in at an arms length feels perfect to me. It did feel like a bit much at first after upgrading from 27in.

[Vayne778]

2 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

Brightness and distance from make a huge difference. I have a 32 inch monitor myself and I sit about an arms length away from it and love it. 

Low brightness?

[Skiiwee29]

1 minute ago, Vayne778 said:

Low brightness?

depends on your surrounding room lighting as well. I actually keep mine at 100% brightness, but keep everything in darkmode, either by default, or forced with extensions like Dark Reader, so it helps a lot with eye strain. 

[RONOTHAN##]

I recently switched to a 32" main monitor (Aorus FI32U), and really do enjoy it. I sit about 2 feet away from it, and keep it at 70% brightness. My eyes don't hurt at all using it, but I do keep everything on dark mode, and it can take my eyes a second to adjust if I do find a webpage or something that doesn't have dark mode on by default. 

 

Granted, I've been using 3 monitors for the past 4 years, recently switching to 3 monitors and a TV, so I'm used to having a ton of light blasted at me from all angles. 

[SkilledRebuilds]

35" 1080p 75Hz main here but I play games using higher render scaling & DSR resolutions also.
It just never bothered me...and if I want a sharper image at 1080p I still have my old 25" 1080p 75Hz panel.

 

I can see why people don't like it... but I was never bothered that much by the flaws of my setup as I play mainly SP-Games in my spare time at higher res with DSR 4K and then maybe 70-80% Scaling if needed, still much sharper than the OG 1080p Spec images I normally drive.

[Donut417]

48 minutes ago, Vayne778 said:

Does your eyes feel comfortable? I have tried it and my eyes feel uncomfortable and got headache lol

 

I guess I'm stuck at 24 inch monitor for a while

I used to use a 32" 720P TV as a monitor and no issues. Currently I have a 34" Ultrawide and a 25" Ultrawide because YOLO. And I never have issues with my eyes. I think part of it, is because I always have a light on in the room, so the monitors dont burn the retina's out of my eye balls. 

[Chris Pratt]

I had a 50“ right in front of my face at my office. It burns your retinas for like a week, and then you get used to it.

[chaotic kronos]

I have a 34 ultra wide with minimal curvature 

So I never go beyond 70% brightness and at first it felt hard to get used to but boy once I got used to it I could never use 24 15 27 inch .  Been using it for 4.5 years and my next upgrade would be an ultra wide too. 1 thing that might help is getting a aggressive curvature like g7 or g5 but side effect would be that viewing them from any thing beyond a meter would be awful.  So get a minimal curvature 

[dizmo]

I get headaches even from 27" 1080p monitors, so it kind of depends on your resolution.

[Doobeedoo]

No idea, it would have to be 4K and like 1m distance for me to be ok with it. I sit roughly arm distance from my 24".

[IPD]

Too many variables. 

 

-No ambient lighting means that you will have more eyestrain regardless of display

-Refresh rate affects people differently

-Usage (FPS vs. spreadsheets for example)

-Motion-induced issues from aforementioned usage

-Color accuracy (too much inaccuracy can cause fatigue with some people)

-On or off-axis viewing (some panels get really bad off axis)

-Too much or too little curvature on panels (i.e. distortion or distance eyestrain)

-Viewing distance to the panel

-PPI of the panel

 

My eyes are anywhere between 24-36" away from a 40" display--and I cannot go back to smaller.