- It looks like a TV bench, but has space for a collapsible screen and UST projector
- Fabric-covered compartments hide a soundbar or speakers
- Available without screen, with screen and with an additional motorized projector tray
Norstone Eden Vision solves one of the big problems with home theater setups with big screen projectors: they can dominate your room, which means that even though giant 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 to do.
The 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 also room for one of the best ultra-short throw projectors around. It also has space to hide your speakers and/or soundbar behind a black surface, so everything is 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 pretend my remote was a magic wand.
Norstone Eden Vision: key features and pricing
Designed to accommodate most commercially available UST projectors, the Norstone Eden Vision houses the aforementioned 100-inch Lumene projection screen.
That screen rises as needed and disappears back into the furniture when you’re done. It is important that it is an ALR screen, because this technology hugely improves the brightness, contrast and color depth of the images from UST projectors – the smart material ensures that the light from the direction of the projector bounces towards your eyes, while light coming from other directions is reflected away from you, so it interferes less with what you need to see – we have an article on what a projector screen makes this kind of difference.
There are dedicated sections for the projector and for your speakers or soundbar, and the side and center compartments have doors fitted with black acoustic transparent fabric to let the sound out unobstructed, but this means the speakers are otherwise not visible.
And the Eden Vision is also available with an optional motorized slide tray to automatically adjust the projector’s position 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 dimensioned: for speakers, the spaces are 460mm high x 400mm deep and 830mm wide, and the soundbar section is 140mm high, 2,500mm wide and 185mm deep. So it should be able to accommodate most of the best soundbars on the market.
Eden Vision’s own dimensions are 2,634 mm wide, 510 mm high and 600 mm deep.
It’s certainly not cheap. The Eden Vision is available in three versions: screen-free for £1,200 (about $1,575 / AU$2,405); with the Eden Extra Bright 240C monitor at £3,500 ($4,595 / AU$7,015); and with both the screen and motorized projector tray for £3,750 ($4,925 / AU$7,515).
We’re only aware of UK and European availability so far, but we’ll keep our eyes open for a worldwide release, because it really does seem like a great idea. I’d be far more likely to have the 100-inch movie screen of my dreams if it just turned into a sensible-looking sideboard when not in use, instead of looking like I live on the starship Enterprise.
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