Computing as a Room
- Computing and peripheral vision:
- What would it take to build a simple app system with tablets / phones / web-enabled devices where I could simply and easily control the room and place computing surfaces around the room?
- Start by externalizing my todo list on another computer.
- Tablet mounted on the wall in my office
- Think of the todo lists just inside the door of the rooms in my house, written on sticky notes
- The todo list in my shed about tools I need to purchase
- Tablet mounted on the wall in my office
- Start by externalizing my todo list on another computer.
- The Everything Queue
- What would the application framework need to be like to enable this kind of distributed application?
- Peer-to-peer - no need to go out to a server
- Offline / local-first - needs to work when I don't have internet
- UX needs to allow for local entry on the device, somehow
- UX needs to allow for "remote" management
- Web-based - all you need is a web browser to get started using the application.
- Any device that runs a web browser could run it. Low computing requirements.
- Could use in Immersed in VR to create arbitrarily complex rooms.
- Would be nice to have an index card or digital paper-sized device so that I could spread things out on a table.
- How would a note-taking system work that would show context of other notes?
- This would be super useful for exploring what eventually will happen AR/VR!!
- In AR world, I'll be able to seamlessly augment my current environment with computing surfaces, extending my "peripheral vision"
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