Interesting… I think enabling the phone as smart remote to TV is a baseline requirement. That's something to start thinking about already today.
The collaborative, multi-device, shared screen scenario is more ambitious, but if we come up with a number of compelling scenarios (Novacut example is a good start) we can to build understanding around the subject. There are some interesting multi-screen entertainment scenarios as well. E.g. Live football match on TV, phone as remote, and tablet as secondary channel to display scores / live tables. There are many more, I'm sure. Mika On 18 Nov 2011, at 08:37, Karloman De Waarachtige wrote: > 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 > -- > 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
