Thanks, good point. Reflections from desks are just as real as from the screen.
Projectors are hot and loud-ish. I like the idea but it’s less practical than it sounds. I have a viewsonic projector which while I don’t use it for these purposes, it is hot and loud and that’s how I know this to be true. Projector bulbs have to be replaced too so you have to invest back into it over time.
There may be newer technology on that which is less loud and less hot, but I think that it’s not particularly cheap.
I like the idea of a recessed area, but unless you are a hawk or an owl or have some other fantastic eyesight, once you start moving the monitor farther away it starts to lose any advantage you gain sonically.
I don’t have a good suggestion, but I’d start by drawing a little picture of the room shape and writing down the dimensions and also adding in any highly reflective surfaces other than the walls so that if someone who has an expert opinion drops by, they might have a better monitor placement recommendation based on the actual physical layout that you’re fighting against.
“Sonically Transparent Computer Screens”
some days I can’t guess at whether GAS on a “gear” forum or if i’m being trolled
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Maybe both. Mayne GAS for imaginary objects could get all sorts of fancy medical terms to describe it as a syndrome. Snicker all you like, I can’t stop you anyway.
A reasoned approach, it would have been the way to go for me if I was planning to work on the acoustics of the room but I’ll be moving out before it becomes worth it. I’m really just wondering where all the flying cars went, they were advertised in the 1950s and should be delivered by now. Jokes aside there should be plenty of new cool tech and I see random stuff on twitter that makes me think that new materials tech might be able to make an impact.
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yeah, I remember something like a 2001 mtv awards show where some rappers were wearing shirts that played videos on them, like a thin fabric-like self-contained screen built into the fabric and that’s the kinda future stuff you need. just right on the wall in front of you, dead flat, like a textile.
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The key words are: 4K short throw laser projector.
I don’t know if any of them are ready to be used as a computer monitor for hours every day. Not cheap, feels early tech.
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Something like that. Maybe there is laser like sound tech that beams right into your ears without creating room interference. That will probaly teach us that we need the room or that headphones already exist.
Did you see that black mirror episode where people have storage chips in their brains?
Dark times and we’re close to that as well as your bluetooth ears.
Not sure, there was something in early season two about that. Very nice episode. Perhaps cranial vibration can give us internal speakers.
That’s the one. The central thematic was jealousy and secrecy plus paranoia.
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Peak black mirror, they are not afraid to play around.
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Look what I found.
If that perfect solution isn’t out there yet, then it’s coming.
Lg workin on it.
LG’s Flexible Display Could be Applied to “Skin, Clothing, Furniture, Automobiles and Aircraft” - Core77
New Super Stretchy OLED Could Make Cars and Even Clothes More Sci-Fi - CNET
Now we’re talking!
I saw something amazing at an outdoor party once but it won’t work at home. They pointed a projector at a vapor cloud produced by a metal tube with holes in it spraying water upwards and it looked like a 3d hologram.
That’s a dope idea. Not a practical idea, but for a festival that’s pretty sick.
Let’s dream a little: A projector screen made up of tiny magnetic dust particles that are suspended in place by an electromagnet. Considering non-ferrous frulds that behave weirdly, having a flat surface that vibrates only sideways and redirects the sound might be possible.
billionaires await your frivolity. they’ve been waiting for someone like you to come along.
I know, right! 
I’ll let them silently peruse the forum and soak it in, I’m not the only crazy person here.