Corsair launches gaming monitor with flexible OLED screen

When setting up a gamer setup, the dilemma comes: investing in a monitor with a flat or curved screen? THE Corsair answered this question with another that is, to say the least, intriguing: why not both? Is that the manufacturer launched a model of gamer monitor with flexible OLED screen: the Xeneon Flex 45WQHD240.

The 45-inch contraption — featured in Gamescom, a video game event held annually in Koelnmesse, in the city of Cologne, Germany — is the first monitor to use this type of technology. And the transition from flat to curved screen (and vice versa) is in the user's hands. Literally. That's because the monitor has a retractable handle on each side, so the user can pull the edges of the screen forward - to make it curved - or push it back - to return to the flat format.

The video below, published by Corsair on its official YouTube channel, shows how this should happen on the flexible screen gaming monitor. Check out:

Explaining the flexible screen gaming monitor

This, shall we say, screen flexibility is possible thanks to the W-OLED panel technology, developed by LG Display, which partnered with Corsair in the development of the new Xeneon Flex.

Incidentally, this is not the first time that LG Display is involved in the presentation of such a screen. At the 2021 CES (Consumer Electronics Show), the company showed a prototype screen that went from flat to curved. The difference is that this transition happened in an automated way.

In the case of Corsair's new flexible screen gaming monitor, the transition is completely up to the customer's taste – who will even be able to choose how curved he wants each side to be. This will allow the monitor to be used in creative or, at the very least, “different” ways.

multipurpose monitor

Developing a monitor that can deliver two types – quite different, by the way – of screens is interesting. By doing this, the user can use it for purposes that go beyond the gamer world, without ceasing to be part of it. It's just that a flat screen is good for certain types of activity, while a curved screen is good for others.

For example, there are those who consider that flat-panel monitors are good for activities that involve productivity, as the image is not distorted or subject to reflections. The advantage of the curved screen is the immersion it brings, especially when playing games, as it fills the peripheral fields of the user's vision (this, of course, depending on the screen size, curvature and distance from it).

Technical specifications

The 45-inches of Corsair's new curved (and flat) OLED display are spread over the resolution 3.440 x 1.440 in 21:9, which, according to the manufacturer, offers 20% more “screen area” than a 49-inch ultrawide monitor. The monitor also has a refresh rate of 240Hz and the ability to reach 1.000 nits of brightness.

As for the curvature of the new monitor, it reaches 800R, that is, the user has up to this limit to choose the curvature he wants. In addition, the monitor supports both the technology G-sync, from Nvidia, regarding FreeSync Premium, from AMD; and, on the back, it has HDMI and DP (DisplayPort) inputs; USB-C, USB-A and headphone jack.

Launch

As much as Corsair has released a teaser of its new flexible screen gamer monitor and its main technical characteristics, the manufacturer has not yet announced when its global launch will be, nor how much it should cost. But the company said that more information related to these points will be released in 2022.

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Check out the highlights from the opening of Gamescom 2022, like the long-awaited Dead Island 2 and the insane Goat Simulator 3.

Sources: The Verge, Digital Trends e Windows Central