In the context of simply controlling the TV, and inspiring project might be Google Anymote: http://code.google.com/p/anymote-protocol/
The possibility of collaborate on a software with more users in realtime and having the TV showing a different view of the process sounded complicated but at the end it is what already happens with many collaborative tools like Google Docs. So it will be a natural scenario when our applications will be more collaborative. Cheers, chr On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:32 AM, david jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > With Ubuntu now being targeted toward TVs as well as smartphones and > tablets, one thing that strikes me is that traditionally TVs have > traditionally struggled to accept inputs that don't fit into either preset > functions on the remote/controller or the equivalent of arrow keys + > Select. (Think of all the interfaces on set top boxes that require the > user to enter text via an onscreen keyboard that can only be navigated via > arrow keys.) > While it's probably good to have basic functions accessible via this > standard remote system, I think we can leverage Ubuntu on smartphones and > tablets to provide a much richer input system. By allowing smartphones and > tablets to control the television, we could open up Ubuntu TVs for a wide > range of collaborative activities. > So you would have each of your group's tablets connect to the TV, start up > the application you want to work with, and begin working together. This > could work differently depending on the use case. Either everyone could be > working/playing together on the big screen, or individuals could work with > a network enabled application on their own tablet and then share their > progress directly on the TV with the others as they each made their own > adjustments. > In the case of a video editing project, say Novacut, each user would be > cutting a given scene, doing color correction, etc on their own Ubuntu > tablet, with the TV as a shared screen for showing progress, getting > feedback from the rest of the group, and keeping tabs on the state of the > edit as a whole. > I'm sure there are many other applications that could benefit from having > a shared screen interfaced with many tiny ones, especially ones where > people are trying to create and remix as a group as well as facilitating > social games. > David Jordan > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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