- It looks like a TV bench but accommodates a fold-away screen and UST projector
- Cloth-covered compartments hide a soundbar or speakers
- Available screen-free, with a screen, and with an additional motorized projector tray
The Norstone Eden Vision solves one of the big problems with big-screen projector home theater setups: they can dominate your room, which means that even though giant screens are becoming more popular, a lot of people avoid them. Wouldn’t it be great if you could make it disappear completely when you don’t need it? That’s what the Eden Vision is designed to do.
The Eden Vision enables you to 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. It also has space to tuck away your speakers and/or soundbar behind a black surface, so it’s all as minimal as possible.
In all honesty I don’t know if I’d even watch a movie on 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 pricing
The Norstone Eden Vision is designed to accommodate the majority of commercially available UST projectors and houses the aforementioned 100-inch Lumene projection screen.
That screen rises on demand and disappears back into the furniture when you’re done. It being an ALR screen is important because this tech massively improves the brightness, contrast, and color depth of the images from UST projectors – the smart material ensures the light from the projector’s direction bounces 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 what a difference this kind of projector screen makes here.
There are dedicated sections for the projector, and for your speakers or soundbar, and the side and central compartments have doors fitted with black acoustically transparent fabric to let the audio out unimpeded, but that mean the speakers aren’t visible otherwise.
And the Eden Vision is also available with an optional Motorised Slider Tray for automatically adjusting the projector’s position, if you choose to use it with a bigger screen and need to add more distance.
The spaces for the soundbar and speakers are generously sized: 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 that should accommodate most of the best soundbars on the market.
The Eden Vision’s own dimensions are 2,634mm wide, 510mm high and 600mm deep.
Admittedly, it’s not cheap. The Eden Vision is available in three versions: screen-free at £1,200 (about $1,575 / AU$2,405); with the Eden Extra Bright 240C screen for £3,500 ($4,595 / AU$7,015); and with both the screen and the motorized projector tray for £3,750 ($4,925 / AU$7,515).
We only know of availability in the UK and Europe for now, but we’ll keep our eyes open for a worldwide release, because this really seems 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 it wasn’t in use, instead of looking like I live on the starship Enterprise.
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