Room Lighting

LED Everything!

At first our Garage LAN had a mix of bulbs and players would complain of headaches after 6+ hours of gaming. The goal was to game without headaches and we setout for 6 months trying different things, this was the result:
Looking at a single monitor, average size of 24″-27″, means that area in front of you has strong LED wave lengths emitting directly into your eye, everything else around the monitor is not. The further back you sit, the less your monitor takes up your field of vision and the closer you get the more area your monitor takes up in your field of vision. The area in your field of vision around the monitor is filled with wave lengths from the room lighting and windows, open doors, ect. Setting up monitors to fill my whole field of vision left me with no headaches for months. Afterward, all windows were blacked out, a little bit of sunlight came through a door jam and all ceiling fixtures were changed to T8 LED fixtures to fill as much of the room with LED wave lengths to match the monitors. This turned out to be easier on everyone’s eyes as the eye muscle isn’t constantly adjusting to different types of light.

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Paint

Semi-Gloss paint for better reflection of the LED wave lengths.

Filling the room with LED light to match the monitors was huge but what if it could be better focused or directed. So, I painted one wall with semi-gloss white paint and the opposite wall with gloss paint. It didn’t seem to be noticeable by any of the players, so semigloss was used for the whole room and the ending result was no more headaches.