__/ [ chrisv ] on Friday 18 August 2006 16:32 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>>Desktop? 5 years? In 5 years not many people will be using desktops.
>
> Nonsense. I see zero need for either my work or home PC's to be
> "portable", and I'm not going to pay a price premium to get a tiny,
> unexpandable, fragile, wimpy-video'd, small-keyboarded,
> battery-powered POS.
>
> In five years I'll have a 30" widescreen LCD sitting on my desk.
> There will be a mouse and an ergonomic keyboard in front of it. The
> computer will be on the floor.
I used to think the same thing, but you can expand and extend input
peripherals to exploit the entire field of view (e.g. head-mounted displays)
and interact using voice and motion of the body. But it'll take far more
than 5 years to become mainstream. Meanwhile, I have been fortunate to use
some innovative 3-D interaction devices. Blend this with stereovision (easy
in head-mounted displays) and something like Compiz/XGL with a z-buffer and
you have a more productive work environment that is quite portable. It's
more about HCI research at the moment. And the peripherals cost tens of
thousands of dollars because they are not prepared for mass production.
Linux, as it stands at present, will go hand-in-hand with these emerging
trends.
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