The wild Asus ROG Bezel-Free Kit uses light refraction to make monitor edges vanish - groutrumn1953

dmasaoka@idgcommunications.com Using prisms, this smart kit can make your tierce monitors seem like a single panel.

One and only of my darling CES pastimes is finding supernumerary, ridonkulous, but totally awesome PC gear, comparable MSI's illuminated SLI Bridges with integrated fans from a a few years back. CES 2018 proper hasn't plane kicked off yet but I cerebrate I've ground this year's winner: The Asus ROG Bezel-Free Kit up for multi-varan setups.

The ROG Bezel-Released Kit eliminates the ugly, chunky bezels marring an otherwise unblemished multi-screen expanse when you connect few displays together. Nothing breaks gaming immersion like bezels A you're tracking action from screen to projection screen. And get this: Kinda than packing advanced reveal engineering science Oregon sensors, the ROG kit (created in conjunction with one of Asus's venire partners) eradicates those nettlesome bezels with a simpleton trick of the light.

Here's Asus describing how the kits turn:

The conception is arrow-shaped. Thin lenses are placed along the seams where screens meet; they contain sense organ micro-structures that refract light, bend it inward to hide the bezels underneath… The lenses are made from PMMA, a type of straight thermoplastic that's much much durable than field glass. This material lets 90 percent of the light from the monitors reflect through, fashioning the picture under the lenses rebuff dimmer than the catch one's breath of the screens but less distracting than the opaque seams created when two bezels are pushed up against each else. Reducing the dimming requires glass lenses that are besides fragile to be practical for lot production.

Badass.

Asus says that mise en scene up the Bezel-Unbound Kit is easy-peasy, with custom clips for the top and bottom of your monitors holding the lense in put together. The total kit consists of just those pieces. The Lens is set at a 130 degree angle "because information technology offered the top-quality balance of comfort and submersion in internal testing."

asus bezel free kit — The Asus ROG Bezel-Free Kit.

The kits need to exist organized for specific monitors to ensure the proper alignment of the lens, Asus says, with the version discovered nowadays being designed for the ROG Fleet PG258Q ($560 on Amazon) and Strix XG258Q ($450 on Amazon) gaming monitors. That said, the kits can be adjusted to fit other displays, and Asus told The Verge that the kit "will work with a wide variety of 'gangly' bezel designs [from different vendors], but you act up desire the monitors to be the same sizing for the best possible display outturn."

In that respect's sadly no word on price or availability. In fact, Asus says IT's showing off the Bezel-Loos Kit to "gauge interest." Hey, Asus: I'm interested!

Clearly, Asus has big screen gaming on the mind, having also announced a 65-inch G-Synchronize "BFGD" monitor at CES.

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