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As I stare at the mess of charging cables and USB stuff on my floor, I look forward to when we will charge things wireless-ly.
An app on my phone so that when I point my camera at a street, building, landscape, the app will overly identifying info.
A laptop without a screen, instead a projected holographic screen with tactile feedback.
When my laptop is far away, across the room, I want a tiny, moldable item in my hand. Just press, next song. Not a wireless mouse, something way tinier, can adapt to tiny finger movements.
A flexible material that can be molded into shape, locked into place. So many uses.
I'd like to hold my phone, and in a quick gesture "throw" data to my laptop.
So that last one is feasible in the near future with UWB chips. It allows devices to know where other devices with the chips in them are.
And with Snapdragon Seamless announced this week, that future seems very close.
Somebody’s been watching The Expanse
Thank you. Knew I'd seen it a sci-fi show, couldn't remember which one.
Now if you can tell me which sci-fi tv show or movie had someone on a spaceship whose job was to listen for, interpret cosmic noise, and he'd do so by immersing his head into a band of sound at his workstation ... been bugging me for weeks.
Ooh I don’t know. That sounds interesting. Is it a band like a speaker that makes a ring around his head facing inward? Or some hologram thing or what?
Um... hold out your hands like you're holding an imaginary box. But instead of a box, it was a visible, undulating, holographic field, and he'd dip his head into that field. I remember computer displays behind him, it was his specialized work station. A few other shipmates would make fun of him for disconnecting, zoning out so much.
FWIW XR standalone headsets are Android based so you can have Termux in there, or even connect to a desktop via e.g Alvr. It's not holographic but ... it's a computer, you can even use a BT mouse and keyboard if you want.