Curves, eh? Curves, curves, curves. Not only is an opening like that going to bring in traffic from the seedier corners of Google search results, but it sums up the way your brain works when you're faced with a curved monitor. Unless you've been using one for some time, it's hard to sit in front of a curved monitor, even one as gentle as this one, the Xiaomi G34WQi, and see anything but the curve. CRT monitors used to bulge toward us, but now this one is there in your peripheral vision, the wider-than-wide aspect ratio offering you a slice into games that's more immersive than ever.
The Xiaomi G34WQi isn't the largest ultrawidescreen out there, and it doesn't have the most aggressive curve, though it is an impressively affordable one. The smartphone maker first touted its monitors back in 2019, and it's taken a while to start selling them outside of China. It offers a gentle 1500R—that's R for radius, and the 1500 bit describes a circle which measures 1500mm to the middle; the monitor thus describes an arc along the circumference of that circle. Remember the bits of geometry at school you slept through, thinking you'd never need? Well this is it, here in the real world. And there's no point always having a calculator in your pocket if you can't remember the formulae.
