Samsung's huge 55-inch curved Odyssey Ark monitor can turn portrait

(Pocket-lint) - Samsung has lifted the lid connected thing of a beast, and we're astir definite you won't person seen a monitor rather similar this before. 

The company's latest Odyssey-branded curved show - called the Odyssey Ark (presumably due to the fact that it's astir the size of a ample woody ship) - features a 55-inch surface and tin beryllium rotated 90 degrees to usage successful representation mode. Yes. Really. 

As is existent of immoderate wide curved monitor, successful landscape, it's designed to immerse you successful your gaming, taking up your full tract of presumption to assistance you consciousness person to the action. 

Samsung intelligibly doesn't conscionable spot it arsenic a gaming monitor, however, with representation mode offered to springiness you a ample aboveground country for multitasking. 

Looking astatine immoderate unrecorded images from CES, shared by Tim Schofield connected Twitter, you tin spot the show towers implicit the idiosyncratic and tin comfortably acceptable successful 3 connected surface windows stacked connected apical of each other. 

Here is simply a archetypal look astatine the INSANE Odyssey Ark from @Samsung! This is simply a curved 55" 4K Monitor with a 16:9 facet ratio... Can bash immoderate superior gaming/multitasking connected this! #ces #samsung pic.twitter.com/Y82hbeY9gg

— Tim Schofield (@qbking77) January 5, 2022

We can't ideate utilizing it successful this predisposition is precise ergonomic, we're getting a sore cervix conscionable looking astatine it.  

Unlike its different curved monitors, Samsung's Odyssey Ark features a 16:9 facet ratio (not an ultrawide 32:9 ratio) and features a Quantum Dot Mini LED show mounted connected a tallness adjustable stand. 

Being 55-inches besides means it needs tons of pixels to look adjacent remotely crisp astatine specified adjacent proximity, and truthful Samsung enactment a 4K sheet successful it. 

The Samsung Odyssey Ark volition beryllium disposable to bargain astatine immoderate constituent successful the 2nd fractional of 2022, but we don't cognize however overmuch it's going to cost. One suspects it volition beryllium incredibly expensive. 

Writing by Cam Bunton. Originally published connected 5 January 2022.