I take it we're looking towards an app on ubuntu-phone/tablet to control ubuntu-tv. This can be achieved through SSH or even VNC. Anyone following me on this one?
In the hardware departement; http://www.boxee.tv has one of the best remotes I've seen so far. One side has a D-Pad and one button; the other side has a hardware keyboard (much preferred over a software one). Might be interesting for canonical if they do decide to choose hardware over software. Regs, On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Christian Giordano < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Karloman Elbers http://www.karloman.be
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