VR Gaming. We're a few years away from some incredible experiences in the space.
Elite Dangerous already exists.
Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?
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#32There are rumors of phones with batteries lasting longer than 5hrs. I'm still not sure if true or not but when it happens it will revolutionize what you use your phone for. It may even replace the watch completely some day. Obviously I insist they still need to be as thin as they are now. That is much much more important than batteries.
? I get at least 10 hours out of my Pixel on a daily basis, what rumor are you talking about?
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#33The second coming of WebTV. I am sick of small devices, I want a huge 100" display managed by a touch remote where I can play and work, watch videos, movies, track my cryptos, even code my own apps from it, all from the comfort of a fat-ass recliner.
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#34I'm looking for a company to successfully implement what I call on-behalf AI. AI legally allowed to take actions on behalf of someone, in a large number of ways in relation to daily life. This may be 5, 10, or 20 years out yet, hard to say. It'll be very hard to pull off, and whichever company does it first at a high function + comprehensive level will be another Airbnb or Uber, as the legal/regulatory hurdles will b…
Why do you think it's "ideal to move first and apologize later" when rolling out a socially transformative technology in a democratic society?
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#35Lenovo ThinkPad Retro! That's certainly right around the corner: two months and one day until pre-order opens.
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#36IRV voting in Maine, automatic districting to prevent gerrymandering, and reliable voting schemes like Scratch and Vote.
Last I heard, ranked choice voting had been ruled unconstitutional in Maine: http://www.pressherald.com/2017/05/23/maine-high-court-says-...
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#37ARkit finally pushing AR to the masses. From a developer perspective, having an SDK that simplifies "environment detection/reasoning" is huge. Previously required pretty deep hardware requirements and now is turning into an AI/ML/software problem. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit/building_a_b...
Does it have Ocr built in?
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#38RISC-V We should see the first hardware running a real Linux distro in 2018 and it should proliferate from there. RV32 should also start showing up in micro controllers as well.
Still need an open GPU, but I think a bunch of risc-v cores with vector extensions running LLVMpipe would be reasonable for running a Wayland desktop.
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#39Textblade: https://waytools.com/
Single row keyboard that has minimal finger movement. It was to be delivered March 2015 or so, but it has yet to be released. They have testers who rave about it and it looks incredible, but it is perpetually around the corner.
Originally designed as an ultra-portable phone keyboard, those who have used it tend to use it for all their machines. It has jump slots to quickly switch from device to device.
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#40WebGPU. Granted, "right around the corner" is a bit of a stretch. https://webkit.org/blog/7380/next-generation-3d-graphics-on-...
Do you have a 15 seconds explanation on how that's going to be much better than WebGL?
ELI7: WebGL crunches numbers fast to end up as pixels, WebGPU crunches numbers fast to end up as numbers again.