Scientists at UC Irvine in Irvine, California have built a 23-by-9 foot TV wall screen that delivers what they call the world's highest-resolution video.
According to The Los Angeles Times, the screen displays in two million pixels for a picture about 100 times clearer than current High-Definition sets.
"It's exciting," Joerg Meyer, a UC Irvine professor of computer graphics and visualization, tells the Times. "This display has higher resolution than the human retina can see."
The UC Irvine high-resolution wall screen.
The wall screen is made up of rows of linked monitors which all display a portion of the image.
The Times reports that it was built three years ago with a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation so it's not being wasted watching the NFL Sunday Ticket. Thus far, it has been used to study changes in specific brain cells of schizophrenics and the cells of a woman who died of ovarian cancer.
"We can see the big picture," says Stephen F. Jenks, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the university.
The newspaper writes that it has also been useful in spotting trapped cars and fallen trees in aerial photos from the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina.
Of course, the Times reports, one student couldn't resist and connected a Play Station game console to the screen. But, no football just yet.
"We'd need an antenna on the roof (for that)." Jenks says.
Despite the scientific benefits, Jenks tells The Times that he sees the wall screen eventually being the entertainment focal point in every home.
"Your whole wall will be a TV set," Jenks said.
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