# Computing as a Room - Computing and peripheral vision: - https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1202663202997170176 - 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 - [[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"