Apple's $299 HomeView ends the crisis of looking at bare walls
The new wall-mounted screen allows users to walk from the bedroom to the kitchen without ever having to look at their own house.
“...and that is when we realized the hallway was entirely devoid of screens,” said Apple interface director Martin Finch.
The company announced its new HomeView smart display on Saturday. It costs $299 and mounts directly to a wall. The device eliminates a major gap in the modern visual field. Subjects in early trials reported severe distress when moving from the bedroom to the kitchen. They had to look at bare paint for up to six seconds. The HomeView prevents this trauma by putting a glowing rectangle exactly at eye level.
Researchers tested the screen on a control group of sixty households. Without a wall display, residents sometimes noticed the physical world. One subject accidentally looked out a window. Another was forced to acknowledge a family member in the corridor. The implications are, frankly, terrifying.
The HomeView connects to the new Apple TV 4K and HomePod 2. This ensures the user remains bathed in a continuous dome of branded data. The display can show a clock, a weather forecast, or a live feed of the front porch. It is a profound breakthrough in domestic engineering. We no longer have to endure the physical world at all.
