- It looks like a TV bench but can accommodate a folding screen and a UST projector.
- Fabric-covered compartments hide a sound bar or speakers
- Available without screen, with screen and with additional motorized projector tray
Norstone Eden Vision solves one of the big problems with home theater setups with large screen projectors: they can dominate the room, meaning that although big screens are becoming more popular, many people avoid them. Wouldn’t it be great if you could make it disappear completely when you don’t need it? That’s what Eden Vision is designed for.
Eden Vision lets you have your AV cake and eat it, because inside what looks like a TV unit is a huge high-contrast, ambient light rejecting (ALR) screen and room for one of the best ultra-short throw projectors too. There’s also room to store the speakers and/or soundbar behind a black surface, to keep it as minimal as possible.
Honestly, I don’t know if I’d even watch a movie about this: I’d be too busy making the screen appear and disappear and pretending my remote was a magic wand.
Norstone Eden Vision: key features and prices
Norstone Eden Vision is designed to fit most commercially available UST projectors and houses the aforementioned 100-inch Lumene projection screen.
That screen rises on demand and disappears into the furniture when you’re done. Being an ALR display is important because this technology greatly improves the brightness, contrast and color depth of images from UST projectors – the smart material ensures that light from the direction of the projector bounces back towards your eyes, while light coming from other directions is reflected away from you, so it interferes less with what you’re supposed to see. We have an article about the difference this type of projector screen makes here.
There are dedicated sections for the projector and for the speakers/soundbar, and the side and center compartments have doors fitted with black acoustically transparent fabric to let audio out unhindered, but that means the speakers aren’t otherwise visible.
And Eden Vision is also available with an optional motorized sliding tray to automatically adjust the position of the projector, if you choose to use it with a larger screen and need to add more distance.
The spaces for the soundbar and speakers are generously sized: for the speakers the spaces are 460mm high x 400mm deep and 830mm wide, and the soundbar section is 140mm high, 2500mm wide and 185mm deep. This should fit most of the best sound bars on the market.
The dimensions of the Eden Vision are 2,634 mm wide, 510 mm high and 600 mm deep.
It is true that it is not cheap. Eden Vision is available in three versions: screenless for £1,200 (around $1,575 / AU$2,405); with the Eden Extra Bright 240C display for £3,500 ($4,595 / AU$7,015); and with the screen and motorized projector tray for £3,750 ($4,925 / AU$7,515).
For now we only know about availability in the UK and Europe, but we’ll keep our eyes open for a global release, because it really does seem like a great idea. I’d be much more likely to have the 100-inch movie screen of my dreams if it simply turned into a practical-looking sideboard when not in use, rather than looking like I lived on the starship Enterprise.
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